{"id":17535,"date":"2024-01-12T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T18:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=17535"},"modified":"2024-01-16T18:12:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T12:42:27","slug":"history-of-12-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-12-january\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 12 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>History of 12 January<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> &#8211; Space shuttle&nbsp;<em>Columbia<\/em>blasted off with a crew that included the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> &#8211; The U.S. Congress passed a resolution authorizing President Bush to use military power to force Iraq out of Kuwait.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong> &#8211; Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew announced that as of January 16 British troops would no longer carry out daylight street patrols in Belfast.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; Tyson Foods Inc. pled guilty to giving $12,000 to former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Tyson was fined $6 million.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; 19 European nations agreed to prohibit human cloning.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr&#8217;s office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; Mark McGwire&#8217;s 70th home run ball was sold at auction in New York for $3 million to an anonymous bidder.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; Charlotte Hornets guard Bobby Phills was killed in a crash during a drag race.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2005<\/strong> &#8211; NASA launched &#8220;Deep Impact&#8221;. The spacecraft was planned to impact on Comet Tempel 1 after a six-month, 268 million-mile journey<\/li>\n<li><strong>2006<\/strong> &#8211; The U.S. Mint began shipping new 5-cent coins to the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. The coin has an image of Thomas Jefferson taken from a 1800 Rembrandt Peale portrait in which the president is looking forward. Since 1909, when presidents were first depicted on circulating coins, all presidents had been shown in profile.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2010<\/strong>\u2013 An&nbsp;earthquake in Haiti&nbsp;occurs, killing over 100,000 people and destroying much of the capital&nbsp;Port-au-Prince.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Violent protests&nbsp;occur in&nbsp;Bucharest,&nbsp;Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President&nbsp;Traian B\u0103sescu&#8217;s economic&nbsp;austerity&nbsp;measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Government raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2016<\/strong>\u2013 Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a&nbsp;bombing&nbsp;near the&nbsp;Blue Mosque in Istanbul.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Amerie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Jo\u00e3o Paulo Daniel, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Dan Klecko, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Angus Macdonald, New Zealand rugby player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Luis Ernesto P\u00e9rez, Mexican footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Hans Van Alphen, Belgian decathlete<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Dean Whitehead, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Daniel Sepulveda, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Jonathan Zydko, French footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Artem Milevskiy, Ukrainian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Issa Rae, American actress, writer, director, producer and web series creator<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Borja Valero, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Kehoma Brenner, German rugby player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Miguel \u00c1ngel Nieto, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Naya Rivera, American actress and singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Thiemo-J\u00e9r\u00f4me Kialka, German footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Axel Witsel, Belgian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Pixie Lott, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Matt Srama, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Ishak Belfodil, Algerian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Samuele Longo, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Zayn Malik, English singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Simone Pecorini, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Do Kyungsoo, South Korean singer and member of boy band&nbsp;EXO<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Alessio Romagnoli, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 12 January 1986 &#8211; Space shuttle&nbsp;Columbiablasted off with a crew that included the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz. 1991 &#8211; The U.S. Congress passed a resolution authorizing President Bush to use military power to force Iraq out of Kuwait. 1995 &#8211; Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew announced that as of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1001,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-17535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-12-january","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-4yP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23391,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions\/23391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}