January 12: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1773 - The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
2. 1906 - Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
3. 1915 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
4. 1915 - The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
5. 1932 - Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
6. 1986 - Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Centeraboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a Mission Specialist.
7. 1991 - Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraqout of Kuwait.
8. 1998 - Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
9. 2007 - Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
10. 2010 - The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing an estimated 316,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.
11. Famous Birthdays: Jan Baptist van Helmont (Flemish chemist and physician), Johan August Arfwedson (Swedish chemist), étienne Lenoir (French engineer, designed the Internal combustion engine), Paul Hermann Müller (Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate), Jeff Bezos (American businessman, founded Amazon.com

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