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Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Mission Santa Clara
Yohannes IV of Ethiopia
Flag of Biafra
Malcolm Hall, University of the Philippines College of Law
Joseph Smith, Jr. 1843
St Mary's Church, Reculver
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Memorial Day in Turkmenistan (1881); | no footnotes |
| 1848 – The Palermo rising in Sicily commenced against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies. | no footnotes |
| 1872 – Yohannes IV was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years. | refimprove section |
| 1895 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, was founded. | refimprove |
| 1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law was founded; many leading Filipino political figures have since graduated from it. | unreferenced section |
| 1932 – Running in a special election, Hattie Wyatt Caraway became the first woman elected to the United States Senate. | refimprove section |
| 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union's Red Army crossed the Vistula River in Poland on their way to invade Germany. | refimprove |
| 1959 – Motown Records was founded as Tamla Records in Detroit, eventually popularizing the eponymous style of soul music. | refimprove |
| 1971 – The American situation comedy All in the Family, starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, was first broadcast on the CBS television network; the show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously deemed unsuitable for U.S. network television comedy. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1808 – John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver, from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture.
- 1921 – Seeking to restore confidence after the Black Sox Scandal, owners of Major League Baseball teams elected former United States district court judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as baseball's first commissioner.
- 1964 – Rebels led by John Okello overthrew Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah, ending 200 years of Arab dominance in Zanzibar.
- 1967 – Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically frozen with intent of future resuscitation.
- 2010 – A 7.0 Mw earthquake struck Haiti, affecting an estimated three million people.
- Born/died: John Winthrop (b. 1587/88) · Étienne Lenoir (b. 1822) · Nikolai Podgorny (d. 1983)
January 12: Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania (1964)
Comet McNaught
- 1554 – Bayinnaung, who later assembled the largest empire in the history of mainland Southeast Asia, was crowned king of the Burmese Toungoo dynasty.
- 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.
- 1899 – During a storm, the crew of the Lynmouth Lifeboat Station transported their 10-ton lifeboat 15 mi (24 km) overland in order to rescue a damaged schooner.
- 1969 – British rock band Led Zeppelin released their eponymous first album in the United States.
- 2007 – Comet McNaught (pictured) reached perihelion and became the brightest comet in over 40 years with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.
John Singer Sargent (b. 1856) · Hermann Göring (b. 1893) · Daniel Bensaïd (d. 2010)
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