January 12
1519 - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.
1773 - The first public museum in the United States was established in Charleston, South Carolina.
1828 - The United States and Mexico signed a Treaty of Limits defining the boundary between the two countries to be the same as the one established by an 1819 treaty between the U.S. and Spain.
1896 - H.L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was of a hand with a bullet in it.
1910 - At a White House dinner hosted by President William Howard Taft, Baroness Rosen, wife of the Russian ambassador, caused a stir by requesting and smoking a cigarette -- it was, apparently, the first time a woman had smoked openly during a public function in the executive mansion. (Some of the other women present who had brought their own cigarettes began lighting up in turn.)
1915 - The House of Representatives rejected a proposal to grant women the right to vote.
1932 - Hattie W. Caraway, a Democrat from Arkansas, became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
1945 - Soviet forces began a huge offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe during World War II.
1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.
1959 - Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit.
1964 - One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.
1991 - A divided Congress gave President George H.W. Bush approval to use military force to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. (The Senate vote was 52-47; the House followed suit 250-183.)
1998 - Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.
1998 - Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court, on a 5-4 decision, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.
2005 - Britain's Prince Harry apologized after a newspaper published a photograph of the young royal wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party.
2010 - A devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, the worst in the region in over 200 years. As many as 200,000 people were killed.
2016 - In his final State of the Union address, President Barack Obama urged Americans to rekindle their belief in the promise of change that first carried him to the White House, declaring that the country must not allow election-year fear and division to put economic and security progress at risk.
2016 - Iran detained 10 American sailors and their two small Navy boats after the boats drifted into Iranian waters; the sailors and their vessels were released the following day.
2020 - President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sparred ahead of Trump’s impeachment trial, with Pelosi saying senators would “pay a price” for blocking new witnesses, and Trump labeling the House impeachment vote a “totally partisan hoax.”
Birthdays
25 - Ella Henderson (singer)
30 - Pixie Lott (singer)
33 - Andrew Lawrence (actor)
34 - Deena Nicole Cortese (reality star)
34 - Will Rothhaar (actor)
36 - Issa Rae (actress)
37 - Jessie Graff (actress)
41 - Cynthia Addai-Robinson (actress)
47 - Melanie Chisholm (singer)
53 - Rachael Harris (actress)
53 - Farrah Forke (actress)
54 - Vendela (model)
55 - Oliver Martinez (actor)
56 - Rob Zombie (singer)
57 - Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder and CEO)
61 - Dominique Wilkins (basketball player)
61 - Oliver Platt (actor)
63 - Christiane Amanpour (journalist)
67 - Howard Stern (radio host)
69 - Ricky Van Shelton (country singer)
70 - Rush Limbaugh (radio host)
70 - Kirstie Alley (actress)
73 - Anthony Andrews (actor)
82 - William Lee Golden (singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 12
1906 - The forward pass was legalized by the football rules committee.
1921 - Kennesaw Mountain Landis became the first commissioner of baseball.
1946 - The Cleveland Rams football team was granted permission to move to Los Angeles.
1958 - The NCAA adopts the 2-point conversion to football scoring.
1960 - Dolph Schayes of the Syracuse Nationals became the first pro basketball player in the NBA to score more than 15,000 points in his career.
1966 - Red Auerbach won his 1,000th game as coach of the Boston Celtics.
1969 - The New York Jets defeated the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts 16-7 to win Super Bowl III in Miami. It marked the first time an AFL team had defeated an NFL team, and it was also the first championship game to use the term "Super Bowl". (Prior to this season, the game was referred to as the "AFL-NFL World Championship Game"). Jets quarterback Joe Namath is named the game's MVP.
1975 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 to win Super Bowl IX in New Orleans. Pittsburgh running back Franco Harris is named MVP.
1992 - In the highest-scoring NCAA basketball game across all divisions, Troy State defeats DeVry 258-141. Several records were set in the contest that are considered to be unbreakable: combined total points (399), points by one team in a half (135), three pointers attempted by one team (109) and three pointers made by one team (51).
1994 - Steve Carlton is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1999 - Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball was sold at auction in New York for $3 million to an anonymous bidder.
2004 - Cam Neely's No. 8 was retired by the Boston Bruins.
2015 - #4 Ohio State defeats #2 Oregon 42-20 to win the inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship in Arlington, Texas.
2016 - NFL owners voted 30-2 to approve the move of the St. Louis Rams to Los Angeles.
1519 - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.
1773 - The first public museum in the United States was established in Charleston, South Carolina.
1828 - The United States and Mexico signed a Treaty of Limits defining the boundary between the two countries to be the same as the one established by an 1819 treaty between the U.S. and Spain.
1896 - H.L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was of a hand with a bullet in it.
1910 - At a White House dinner hosted by President William Howard Taft, Baroness Rosen, wife of the Russian ambassador, caused a stir by requesting and smoking a cigarette -- it was, apparently, the first time a woman had smoked openly during a public function in the executive mansion. (Some of the other women present who had brought their own cigarettes began lighting up in turn.)
1915 - The House of Representatives rejected a proposal to grant women the right to vote.
1932 - Hattie W. Caraway, a Democrat from Arkansas, became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
1945 - Soviet forces began a huge offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe during World War II.
1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.
1959 - Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit.
1964 - One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.
1991 - A divided Congress gave President George H.W. Bush approval to use military force to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. (The Senate vote was 52-47; the House followed suit 250-183.)
1998 - Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.
1998 - Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court, on a 5-4 decision, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.
2005 - Britain's Prince Harry apologized after a newspaper published a photograph of the young royal wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party.
2010 - A devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, the worst in the region in over 200 years. As many as 200,000 people were killed.
2016 - In his final State of the Union address, President Barack Obama urged Americans to rekindle their belief in the promise of change that first carried him to the White House, declaring that the country must not allow election-year fear and division to put economic and security progress at risk.
2016 - Iran detained 10 American sailors and their two small Navy boats after the boats drifted into Iranian waters; the sailors and their vessels were released the following day.
2020 - President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sparred ahead of Trump’s impeachment trial, with Pelosi saying senators would “pay a price” for blocking new witnesses, and Trump labeling the House impeachment vote a “totally partisan hoax.”
Birthdays
25 - Ella Henderson (singer)
30 - Pixie Lott (singer)
33 - Andrew Lawrence (actor)
34 - Deena Nicole Cortese (reality star)
34 - Will Rothhaar (actor)
36 - Issa Rae (actress)
37 - Jessie Graff (actress)
41 - Cynthia Addai-Robinson (actress)
47 - Melanie Chisholm (singer)
53 - Rachael Harris (actress)
53 - Farrah Forke (actress)
54 - Vendela (model)
55 - Oliver Martinez (actor)
56 - Rob Zombie (singer)
57 - Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder and CEO)
61 - Dominique Wilkins (basketball player)
61 - Oliver Platt (actor)
63 - Christiane Amanpour (journalist)
67 - Howard Stern (radio host)
69 - Ricky Van Shelton (country singer)
70 - Rush Limbaugh (radio host)
70 - Kirstie Alley (actress)
73 - Anthony Andrews (actor)
82 - William Lee Golden (singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 12
1906 - The forward pass was legalized by the football rules committee.
1921 - Kennesaw Mountain Landis became the first commissioner of baseball.
1946 - The Cleveland Rams football team was granted permission to move to Los Angeles.
1958 - The NCAA adopts the 2-point conversion to football scoring.
1960 - Dolph Schayes of the Syracuse Nationals became the first pro basketball player in the NBA to score more than 15,000 points in his career.
1966 - Red Auerbach won his 1,000th game as coach of the Boston Celtics.
1969 - The New York Jets defeated the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts 16-7 to win Super Bowl III in Miami. It marked the first time an AFL team had defeated an NFL team, and it was also the first championship game to use the term "Super Bowl". (Prior to this season, the game was referred to as the "AFL-NFL World Championship Game"). Jets quarterback Joe Namath is named the game's MVP.
1975 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 to win Super Bowl IX in New Orleans. Pittsburgh running back Franco Harris is named MVP.
1992 - In the highest-scoring NCAA basketball game across all divisions, Troy State defeats DeVry 258-141. Several records were set in the contest that are considered to be unbreakable: combined total points (399), points by one team in a half (135), three pointers attempted by one team (109) and three pointers made by one team (51).
1994 - Steve Carlton is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1999 - Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball was sold at auction in New York for $3 million to an anonymous bidder.
2004 - Cam Neely's No. 8 was retired by the Boston Bruins.
2015 - #4 Ohio State defeats #2 Oregon 42-20 to win the inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship in Arlington, Texas.
2016 - NFL owners voted 30-2 to approve the move of the St. Louis Rams to Los Angeles.