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 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 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 violet coup.
1966 - President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the U.S. military should stay in Vietnam until Communist aggression there was stopped.
1971 - The groundbreaking situation comedy “All in the Family” premiered on CBS television.
1991 - A deeply divided Congress gave President George H.W. Bush the authority to use force to expel Iraq from 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 Supreme Court 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 - Haiti is dealt a catastrophic blow when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country's capital. It is the region's worst earthquake in 200 years. The number of fatalities were between 46,000 and 85,000 people.
2012 - Pentagon leaders scrambled to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. (The Marine Corps announced in August 2012 that three Marines had received administrative punishments in connection with this incident.)
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.
2017 - In yet another aftershock from the chaotic presidential campaign, the Justice Department inspector general opened an investigation into department and FBI actions before the election, including whether FBI Director James Comey followed established policies in the email investigation of Hillary Clinton.
2017 - President Barack Obama ended the longstanding “wet foot, dry foot” immigration policy that allowed any Cuban who made it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident.
2021 - The House voted to urge Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and hold a Cabinet vote to remove President Donald Trump from office; it was a symbolic action after Pence had already said he would not do so.
Birthdays
26 - Ella Henderson (singer)
31 - Pixie Lott (singer)
34 - Andrew Lawrence (actor)
34 - Erinn Westbrook (actress)
35 - Will Rothhaar (actor)
35 - Deena Nicole Cortese (reality star)
37 - Issa Rae (actress)
38 - Jessie Graff (stunt actress)
42 - Amerie (singer)
42 - Cynthia Addai-Robinson (actress)
48 - Melanie Chisholm (singer)
54 - Rachael Harris (actress)
55 - Vendela (model)
56 - Olivier Martinez (actor)
57 - Rob Zombie (singer)
58 - Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon)
62 - Dominique Wilkins (basketball player)
62 - Oliver Platt (actor)
64 - Christiane Amanpour (broadcast journalist)
68 - Howard Stern (radio host)
70 - Ricky Van Shelton (singer)
71 - Kirstie Alley (actress)
74 - Anthony Andrews (actor)
83 - William Lee Golden (singer)
87 - The Amazing Kreskin (mentalist)
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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 Major League Baseball.
1946 - The Cleveland Rams were granted permission to move to Los Angeles.
1958 - The NCAA adds the 2-point conversion scoring play to college football.
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 in Miami to win Super Bowl III.
1975 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 in New Orleans to win Super Bowl IX.
1983 - Brooks Robinson and Juan Marichal are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1988 - Willie Stargell is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1992 - In the highest-scoring men's basketball game in NCAA history, Troy State defeated DeVry 258-141.
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.
2006 - The New York Rangers retire Mark Messier's #11.
2015 - #4 Ohio State defeats #2 Oregon 42-20 to win the inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
2016 - The NFL approved St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke's plan to move the franchise back 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 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 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 violet coup.
1966 - President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the U.S. military should stay in Vietnam until Communist aggression there was stopped.
1971 - The groundbreaking situation comedy “All in the Family” premiered on CBS television.
1991 - A deeply divided Congress gave President George H.W. Bush the authority to use force to expel Iraq from 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 Supreme Court 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 - Haiti is dealt a catastrophic blow when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country's capital. It is the region's worst earthquake in 200 years. The number of fatalities were between 46,000 and 85,000 people.
2012 - Pentagon leaders scrambled to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. (The Marine Corps announced in August 2012 that three Marines had received administrative punishments in connection with this incident.)
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.
2017 - In yet another aftershock from the chaotic presidential campaign, the Justice Department inspector general opened an investigation into department and FBI actions before the election, including whether FBI Director James Comey followed established policies in the email investigation of Hillary Clinton.
2017 - President Barack Obama ended the longstanding “wet foot, dry foot” immigration policy that allowed any Cuban who made it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident.
2021 - The House voted to urge Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and hold a Cabinet vote to remove President Donald Trump from office; it was a symbolic action after Pence had already said he would not do so.
Birthdays
26 - Ella Henderson (singer)
31 - Pixie Lott (singer)
34 - Andrew Lawrence (actor)
34 - Erinn Westbrook (actress)
35 - Will Rothhaar (actor)
35 - Deena Nicole Cortese (reality star)
37 - Issa Rae (actress)
38 - Jessie Graff (stunt actress)
42 - Amerie (singer)
42 - Cynthia Addai-Robinson (actress)
48 - Melanie Chisholm (singer)
54 - Rachael Harris (actress)
55 - Vendela (model)
56 - Olivier Martinez (actor)
57 - Rob Zombie (singer)
58 - Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon)
62 - Dominique Wilkins (basketball player)
62 - Oliver Platt (actor)
64 - Christiane Amanpour (broadcast journalist)
68 - Howard Stern (radio host)
70 - Ricky Van Shelton (singer)
71 - Kirstie Alley (actress)
74 - Anthony Andrews (actor)
83 - William Lee Golden (singer)
87 - The Amazing Kreskin (mentalist)
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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 Major League Baseball.
1946 - The Cleveland Rams were granted permission to move to Los Angeles.
1958 - The NCAA adds the 2-point conversion scoring play to college football.
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 in Miami to win Super Bowl III.
1975 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 in New Orleans to win Super Bowl IX.
1983 - Brooks Robinson and Juan Marichal are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1988 - Willie Stargell is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1992 - In the highest-scoring men's basketball game in NCAA history, Troy State defeated DeVry 258-141.
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.
2006 - The New York Rangers retire Mark Messier's #11.
2015 - #4 Ohio State defeats #2 Oregon 42-20 to win the inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
2016 - The NFL approved St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke's plan to move the franchise back to Los Angeles.
