Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 12

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• Kenesaw Mountain Landis
  Kenesaw Mountain Landis
• Kenesaw Mountain Landis
  Kenesaw Mountain Landis
• Yohannes IV of Ethiopia
  Yohannes IV of Ethiopia
• Malcolm Hall, University of the Philippines College of Law
  Malcolm Hall, University of the Philippines College of Law
• St Mary's Church, Reculver
  St Mary's Church, Reculver
• Damage to the National Palace in Port-au-Prince
  Damage to the National Palace in Port-au-Prince
• Mission Santa Clara de Asís
  Mission Santa Clara de Asís

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Blurb	Reason
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.	unreferenced section
1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law, from which many leading Filipino political figures have since graduated, was founded in Quezon City.	promotional
1921 – Seeking to restore confidence after the Black Sox Scandal, owners of Major League Baseball teams elected former U.S. district court judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (pictured) as the first commissioner of baseball.	significance of date, date not in article
1932 – Running in a special election, Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to the United States Senate.	date not in article
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
1969 – In American football, the New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts to win [[Super Bowl III|Super Template:Nowrap]] in one of the greatest upsets in American sports history.	unreferenced section
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
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor |d|1519|	Tagged as too long
Priscilla Susan Bury |b|1799|	Too much unreferenced

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• 475 – Basiliscus became Byzantine emperor after Zeno was forced to flee Constantinople.
• 1554 – Bayinnaung, who later assembled what was probably the largest empire in the history of mainland Southeast Asia, was crowned as the king of the Burmese Toungoo dynasty.
• 1777 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís (pictured), a Spanish mission in California that formed the basis of both the city of Santa Clara and Santa Clara University, was established by the Franciscans.
• 1808 – John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church in Reculver from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture.
• 1865 – The foundation stone of Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork was laid.
• 1895 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, was founded.
• 1916 – Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann became the first German aviators to be awarded the Pour le Mérite, Germany's highest military honour.
• 1918 – An underground explosion at a coal mine in Staffordshire, England, killed 155 men and boys.
• 1964 – Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah was overthrown by rebels led by John Okello, ending 200 years of Arab dominance in Zanzibar.
• 2010 – An earthquake registering Template:Nowrap struck Haiti, killing more than 100,000 people.
• 2010 – Iranian physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was assassinated while leaving his home for the University of Tehran, where he was a professor.
• Born/died: | John Winthrop |b.or|1587; 1588| Rosalba Carriera |b|1673| Étienne Lenoir |b|1822| John Singer Sargent |b|1856| Spyridon Louis |b|1873| Hermann Göring |b|1893| Austin Chapman |d|1926 | Jeff Bezos |b|1964| Nikolai Podgorny |d|1983| Boogie Knight|b|1999| Zhansaya Abdumalik|b|2000| Olga Ladyzhenskaya |d|2004| Daniel Bensaïd |d|2010|

January 12: Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania (1964) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1659 – The fort at Allahabad was surrendered to the forces of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
• 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Natal Native Contingent and British troops defeated Zulu forces in the Action at Sihayo's Kraal.
• 1899 – During a storm, the crew of Lynmouth Lifeboat Station transported their 10-ton lifeboat Template:Convert overland in order to rescue a damaged schooner.
• 1967 – Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
• 2007 – Comet McNaught (pictured) reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet in over 40 years, with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.