TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Friday, January 12, the 12th day of 2018. There are 353 days left in the year.
1528 Gustav I of Sweden is crowned king. 1554 Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma.
1616 The city of Belem, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta, by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco. 1808 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.
1848 The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1866 The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London. 1872 Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years. 1915 The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote. 1916 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.
1921 Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner. 1932 Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate. 1942 World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the national war labour board. 1962 Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place. 1964 Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
1966 Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. 1998 Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. 2004 The world's largest ocean liner, RMS
Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage. 2006 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. 2010 An earthquake in Haiti killing over 100,000 and destroying much of the capital Port- au- Prince. 2012 Violent protests take place in Bucharest, Romania.