History Events on January 12

The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.

#New_York_Jets

Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a payload specialist.

#Space_Shuttle_program

A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.

#Incidents_during_the_Hajj

Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.

#Lyndon_B._Johnson

Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.

#Oswald_Boelcke

The United Nations Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).

#United_Nations_Security_Council

World War II: The Red Army begins the Vistula-Oder Offensive.

#World_War_II

Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.

#Gulf_War

Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

#January_2016_Istanbul_bombing

The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

#Sicilian_revolution_of_1848

Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.

#Deep_Impact_(spacecraft)

Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.

#Black_Sox_Scandal

Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.

#Vietnam_War

Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.

#Biafra

Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already reigned since his election in June 1523.

#Gustav_I_of_Sweden

Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.

#Yohannes_IV

An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing over 100,000 people and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince.

#2010_Haiti_earthquake

The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta, by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.

#Belém

Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma.

#Bayinnaung

John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver, founded in 669, from coastal erosion is abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture.

#John_Rennie_the_Elder

The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.

#Ocean_liner

The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.

#United_States_House_of_Representatives

Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.

#Zanzibar

World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.

#World_War_II

Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian B?sescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.

#2012_Romanian_protests

Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.

#Human_cloning

A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.

#Radio_broadcasting

Government raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon.

Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.

A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.

The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.

Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.

Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.

The Minnie Pit Disaster coal mining accident occurs in Halmer End, Staffordshire, in which 155 men and boys die.

The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.

The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.

The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.

The organizational meeting leading to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.