1729 The Irish statesman, political theorist and philosopher Edmund Burke was born on January 12, 1729 in Dublin, Ireland, to a prosperous solicitor, Richard Burke. In 1744, Burke went to Trinity College, Dublin and, in 1747, set up a debating society, "Edmund Burke's Club", which, in 1770, merged with the college's Historical Club to form the College Historical Society, now the oldest undergraduate society in the world.
1773 The first public museum in America was established in Charleston, South Carolina on January 12, 1773. Inspired in part by the creation of the British Museum, the Museum was established by the Charleston Library Society on the eve of the American Revolution. It first opened to the public in 1824.
1777 Mission Santa Clara de Asís, a Spanish mission that formed the basis of both the city of Santa Clara, California and Santa Clara University, was established on January 12, 1777. It was named for Saint Clare of Assisi, the foundress of the order of the Poor Clares and was the first California mission to be named in honor of a woman.
1833 The famous French chef Marie-Antoine Carême died in his Paris house on the Rue Neuve Saint Roche at the age of 48 on January 12, 1833. The cause of death may have been the many years he inhaled the toxic fumes of the charcoal on which he cooked. While cooking for Lord Stewart, the British envoy in Vienna, Marie-Antoine Carême put a tube of card into the floppy hat customarily worn by cooks to create the chef’s hat.
1866 The Aeronautical Society Of Great Britain was established on January 12, 1866. This makes it the oldest aeronautical society in the world. The organization existed even before the Wright brothers first took flight in 1903. Back then, the only means of flying was by balloon.
1882 The world's first coal-fired power station, generating electricity for public use, was built at number 57, Holborn Viaduct in London, by Thomas Edison's Edison Electric Light Company. Holborn Viaduct power station began running on January 12, 1882.
1893 Nazi leader Hermann Göring was born on January 12, 1893 in Rosenheim, Bavaria. During World War I Goring became a renowned fighter pilot and in 1918, after he shot his nineteenth plane, he was awarded the coveted Pour le Mérite, the highest airforce award in Germany. He clocked up 22 kills in total during the war. Despite his bravery and numerous victories, Göring wasn’t popular with the other pilots, seemingly due to his arrogance.
1893 In 1893 a national body was set up in the UK to coordinate environmental conservation efforts across the country; the "National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty" was formally incorporated on January 12, 1895.
1899 Thirteen crew members and five apprentices were rescued from the stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat on January 12, 1899 when the former foundered off the coast of Devon, England. Because of the severe gale that was blowing at the time, the lifeboat had to be hauled 15 miles (24 km) across Exmoor before it could be safely launched.
1904 On January 12, 1904 Henry Ford set a land-speed record of 91.37 mph (147 kmh) on the frozen surface of Michigan’s Lake St. Clair in his 70 Hp Arrow. As news of his 1904 record spread around the US, Ford's new car company garnered a much needed boost in sales.
1911 The University of the Philippines College of Law was founded on January 12, 1911. It was established through Act No. 1870 of the Philippine Commission, which authorized the establishment of the College of Law as a part of the University of the Philippines (UP), founded in 1908. The UP College of Law has since become one of the leading law schools in the country, producing numerous distinguished alumni who have excelled in various fields of law, politics, and public service.
1918 The Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was born Mahesh Prasad Varma on January 12, 1918. After spending two years in silence in the Himalayan foothills, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi traveled to the USA in 1959 obeying the commission of his spiritual mentor, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, who was called "Guru Dev." There he started to teach a basic silent mantra meditation technique, called Transcendental Meditation, which was taken from the ancient Vedic tradition.
1926 The sitcom format was born on January 12, 1926 with the initial broadcast of Sam 'n' Henry on WGN radio in Chicago, Illinois. The ten-minute program starred Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as Sam Smith and Henry Johnson, two African-Americans from Birmingham who moved north to Chicago to seek their fortune.
1953 On January 12, 1953, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was appointed Patriarch of Venice and, accordingly, raised to the rank of Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca by Pope Pius XII. Six years later, on November 4, 1958 Angelo Roncalli was elected pope. He chose his father's name, John, and became Pope John XXII.
1957 Film tycoon and entrepreneur Howard Hughes married actress Jean Peters on January 12, 1957. They divorced 14 years later. Hughes dated many famous women, including Bette Davis, Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers.
1966 Batman, a thirty-minute prime time, live-action television series based on the comic character premiered on January 12, 1966. The series starred Adam West as the title character, while Burt Ward played his sidekick, Robin. 120 episodes aired on the ABC network for the three seasons it was shown until March 1968.
1966 History's then-oldest porcupine died at the National Zoo in Washington on January 12, 1966 aged 27 years 3 months old. The Sumatran crested porcupine was also the oldest known rodent. His longevity record was later surpassed by Cooper the porcupine who turned 32 on March 18, 2020.
1967 Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became on January 12, 1967 the first person to be cryonically frozen with intent of future resuscitation. He remains preserved at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. In the cryonics community, the anniversary of his cryopreservation is celebrated as "Bedford Day".
1971 All In The Family first came on the air on January 12, 1971. It gave us the first toilet flush in sitcom history during the first series. The flush became a running gag on the show, used for both comedic and dramatic purposes.
1976 English crime novelist Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her Winterbrook House in the north of Cholsey parish, adjoining Wallingford in Oxfordshire (formerly part of Berkshire). She is buried in the nearby churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey. Her gravestone includes a quotation from Spenser’s Fairie Queen beginning "sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas."
1998 19 nations agreed to prohibit the practice of human cloning on January 12, 1998. Three years later, in 2002 the company Clonaid announced the birth of a cloned human baby, although it has yet to present any verifiable evidence.
2007 Leading concert violinist Joshua Bell, played for free, for 45 minutes, on a violin worth 3.5 million dollars at a subway station on January 12, 2007. Of the 1,097 people who passed by Bell, only seven stopped to listen him play, including a 3-year old boy, and only one person recognized him. The experiment was initiated by The Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten.
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| Edmund Burke |
1773 The first public museum in America was established in Charleston, South Carolina on January 12, 1773. Inspired in part by the creation of the British Museum, the Museum was established by the Charleston Library Society on the eve of the American Revolution. It first opened to the public in 1824.
1777 Mission Santa Clara de Asís, a Spanish mission that formed the basis of both the city of Santa Clara, California and Santa Clara University, was established on January 12, 1777. It was named for Saint Clare of Assisi, the foundress of the order of the Poor Clares and was the first California mission to be named in honor of a woman.
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| Mission Santa Clara de Asís c. 1910 |
1833 The famous French chef Marie-Antoine Carême died in his Paris house on the Rue Neuve Saint Roche at the age of 48 on January 12, 1833. The cause of death may have been the many years he inhaled the toxic fumes of the charcoal on which he cooked. While cooking for Lord Stewart, the British envoy in Vienna, Marie-Antoine Carême put a tube of card into the floppy hat customarily worn by cooks to create the chef’s hat.
1866 The Aeronautical Society Of Great Britain was established on January 12, 1866. This makes it the oldest aeronautical society in the world. The organization existed even before the Wright brothers first took flight in 1903. Back then, the only means of flying was by balloon.
1882 The world's first coal-fired power station, generating electricity for public use, was built at number 57, Holborn Viaduct in London, by Thomas Edison's Edison Electric Light Company. Holborn Viaduct power station began running on January 12, 1882.
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| Holborn Viaduct Power Station |
1893 Nazi leader Hermann Göring was born on January 12, 1893 in Rosenheim, Bavaria. During World War I Goring became a renowned fighter pilot and in 1918, after he shot his nineteenth plane, he was awarded the coveted Pour le Mérite, the highest airforce award in Germany. He clocked up 22 kills in total during the war. Despite his bravery and numerous victories, Göring wasn’t popular with the other pilots, seemingly due to his arrogance.
1893 In 1893 a national body was set up in the UK to coordinate environmental conservation efforts across the country; the "National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty" was formally incorporated on January 12, 1895.
1899 Thirteen crew members and five apprentices were rescued from the stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat on January 12, 1899 when the former foundered off the coast of Devon, England. Because of the severe gale that was blowing at the time, the lifeboat had to be hauled 15 miles (24 km) across Exmoor before it could be safely launched.
1904 On January 12, 1904 Henry Ford set a land-speed record of 91.37 mph (147 kmh) on the frozen surface of Michigan’s Lake St. Clair in his 70 Hp Arrow. As news of his 1904 record spread around the US, Ford's new car company garnered a much needed boost in sales.
1911 The University of the Philippines College of Law was founded on January 12, 1911. It was established through Act No. 1870 of the Philippine Commission, which authorized the establishment of the College of Law as a part of the University of the Philippines (UP), founded in 1908. The UP College of Law has since become one of the leading law schools in the country, producing numerous distinguished alumni who have excelled in various fields of law, politics, and public service.
1918 The Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was born Mahesh Prasad Varma on January 12, 1918. After spending two years in silence in the Himalayan foothills, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi traveled to the USA in 1959 obeying the commission of his spiritual mentor, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, who was called "Guru Dev." There he started to teach a basic silent mantra meditation technique, called Transcendental Meditation, which was taken from the ancient Vedic tradition.
1926 The sitcom format was born on January 12, 1926 with the initial broadcast of Sam 'n' Henry on WGN radio in Chicago, Illinois. The ten-minute program starred Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as Sam Smith and Henry Johnson, two African-Americans from Birmingham who moved north to Chicago to seek their fortune.
1953 On January 12, 1953, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was appointed Patriarch of Venice and, accordingly, raised to the rank of Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca by Pope Pius XII. Six years later, on November 4, 1958 Angelo Roncalli was elected pope. He chose his father's name, John, and became Pope John XXII.
1957 Film tycoon and entrepreneur Howard Hughes married actress Jean Peters on January 12, 1957. They divorced 14 years later. Hughes dated many famous women, including Bette Davis, Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers.
1966 Batman, a thirty-minute prime time, live-action television series based on the comic character premiered on January 12, 1966. The series starred Adam West as the title character, while Burt Ward played his sidekick, Robin. 120 episodes aired on the ABC network for the three seasons it was shown until March 1968.
1966 History's then-oldest porcupine died at the National Zoo in Washington on January 12, 1966 aged 27 years 3 months old. The Sumatran crested porcupine was also the oldest known rodent. His longevity record was later surpassed by Cooper the porcupine who turned 32 on March 18, 2020.
1967 Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became on January 12, 1967 the first person to be cryonically frozen with intent of future resuscitation. He remains preserved at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. In the cryonics community, the anniversary of his cryopreservation is celebrated as "Bedford Day".
1971 All In The Family first came on the air on January 12, 1971. It gave us the first toilet flush in sitcom history during the first series. The flush became a running gag on the show, used for both comedic and dramatic purposes.
1976 English crime novelist Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her Winterbrook House in the north of Cholsey parish, adjoining Wallingford in Oxfordshire (formerly part of Berkshire). She is buried in the nearby churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey. Her gravestone includes a quotation from Spenser’s Fairie Queen beginning "sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas."
2007 Leading concert violinist Joshua Bell, played for free, for 45 minutes, on a violin worth 3.5 million dollars at a subway station on January 12, 2007. Of the 1,097 people who passed by Bell, only seven stopped to listen him play, including a 3-year old boy, and only one person recognized him. The experiment was initiated by The Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten.
2009 The first bitcoin transaction was completed nine days after Satoshi Nakamoto created the cryptocurrency network. The receiver of the first bitcoin transaction was cypherpunk Hal Finney, who downloaded the bitcoin software on its release date, and on January 12, 2009 received ten bitcoins from Nakamoto.
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