Editing January 12 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1911]] &ndash; The [[University of the Philippines College of Law]] is established.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Alfonso|first1=Oscar M.|last2=Bauzon|first2=Leslie E.|title=University of the Philippines: The First 75 Years (1908-1983)|location=Quezon City|publisher=University of the Philippines Press|date=1985|isbn=9789711050184|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0XifAAAAMAAJ&q=%22on+January+12%2C+1911%2C+the+College+of+Law%22}}</ref>
*[[1915]] &ndash; The [[United States House of Representatives]] rejects a proposed constitutional amendment to require states to give [[women's suffrage|women the right to vote]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Women's Suffrage Amendment Fails|work=Elmira Star-Gazette|date=January 13, 1915|page=1|postscript=none}}; {{cite news|title=House Again Defeats Woman Suffrage Plan|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=January 13, 1915|page=1}}</ref>
*[[1916]] &ndash; [[Oswald Boelcke]] and [[Max Immelmann]] become the first German aviators to earn the [[Pour le Mérite]], receive the [[German Empire]]'s highest military award, for achieving eight aerial victories each over [[Allies of World War I|Allied]] aircraft.<ref>{{cite book|last=Head|first=R.G.|title=Oswald Boelcke: Germany's First Fighter Ace and Father of Air Combat|location=London|publisher=Grub Street|date=2019|isbn=9781911621423|page=82|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MY6eDgAAQBAJ}}</ref> 
*[[1918]] &ndash; The [[Minnie Pit Disaster]] coal mining accident occurs in Halmer End, Staffordshire, in which 155 men and boys die.<ref>{{cite book|last=Elliott|first=Brian|title=Coal Mine Disasters in the Modern Era c. 1900 to 1980|location=Barnsley, South Yorkshire, U.K.|publisher=Pen and Sword|date=2017|isbn=9781473858879|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YNUjDwAAQBAJ|page=47}}</ref>
*[[1932]] &ndash; [[Hattie Caraway]] becomes the first woman elected to the [[United States Senate]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Clark|first=Judith Freeman|title=Almanac of American Women in the 20th Century|location=New York|publisher=Prentice Hall|date=1917|isbn=9780130226587|page=[https://archive.org/details/almanacofamerica00clar/page/56 56]|url=https://archive.org/details/almanacofamerica00clar/page/56}}</ref>
*[[1933]] &ndash; [[Casas Viejas incident]]: 22 peasants killed by the [[Security and Assault Corps]] in [[Casas Viejas]], [[Second Spanish Republic|Spain]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Mintz|first=Jerome R.|year=1994|orig-year=1982|title=The Anarchists of Casas Viejas|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|isbn=0-253-20854-8|lccn=93-2425|page=227}}</ref>
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: United States President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] creates the [[National War Labor Board (1942–1945)|National War Labor Board]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Zieger|first=Robert H.|title=The CIO, 1935-1955|location=Chapel Hill, N.C.|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|date=1997|isbn=9780807846308|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3IdhCQAAQBAJ|page=164}}</ref>
*[[1945]] &ndash; World War II: The [[Red Army]] begins the [[Vistula–Oder Offensive]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Baxter|first=Ian|title=The Vistula-Oder Offensive: The Soviet Destruction of German Army Group A, 1945|location=Havertown, Pa.|publisher=Casemate|date=2023|isbn=9781636243597|page=68|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pgHkEAAAQBAJ}}</ref>
*[[1955]] &ndash; A [[Martin 2-0-2]] and [[Douglas DC-3]] [[1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision|collide]] over [[Boone County, Kentucky]], killing 15 people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ASN Aircraft accident Martin 2-0-2A N93211 Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport, KY (CVG) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19550112-0 |access-date=2023-01-11 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref>
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: [[Operation Chopper (Vietnam)|Operation Chopper]], the first American combat mission and first American helicopter assault in the war, takes place.<ref>{{cite book|last=Carrier|first=Jerry|title=A Long Cold War: A Chronology of American Life and Culture, 1945 to 1991|location=New York|publisher=Algora Publishing|date=2018|isbn=9781628943184|page=208|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RrFjDwAAQBAJ|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last1=Longley|first1=Kyle|last2=Whitt|first2=Jacqueline|title=Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam|location=New York|publisher=Routledge|date=2020|isbn=9780429355868|page=1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2bnDwAAQBAJ}}</ref>
*[[1964]] &ndash; Rebels in [[Zanzibar]] begin a revolt known as the [[Zanzibar Revolution]] and proclaim a republic.<ref>{{cite book|last=Petterson|first=Donald|title=Revolution in Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale|location=Boulder, Colo.|publisher=Westview Press|date=2002|isbn=9780813342689|page=i|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uvRPuQnA6roC}}</ref>
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] states that the United States should stay in [[South Vietnam]] until [[Communism|Communist]] aggression there is ended.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wicker|first=Tom|title=Johnson Asks Domestic Reform, Stands Firm on Vietnam|work=The New York Times|date=January 13, 1966|page=A1|postscript=none}}; {{cite news|last=Kilpatrick|first=Carroll|title=U.S. Can Continue the 'Great Society' And Fight in Vietnam, Johnson Says: Peace Moves So Far Receive No Response, His Message Reveals|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 13, 1966|page=A1}}</ref>
*[[1967]] &ndash; Dr. [[James Bedford]] becomes the first person to be [[cryonics|cryonically preserved]] with intent of future resuscitation.
*[[1969]] &ndash; The [[New York Jets]] of the [[American Football League]] defeat the [[History of the Baltimore Colts|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.
*[[1970]] &ndash; [[Biafra]] capitulates, ending the [[Nigerian Civil War]].
*[[1971]] &ndash; 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.]]
*[[1976]] &ndash; The [[United Nations Security Council]] votes 11–1 to allow the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
*[[1986]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle program]]: Congressman and future NASA Administrator [[Bill Nelson (politician)|Bill Nelson]] lifts off from [[Kennedy Space Center]] aboard [[Space Shuttle Columbia|''Columbia'']] on mission [[STS-61-C]] as a [[payload specialist]].
*[[1990]] &ndash; A [[Baku pogrom|seven-day pogrom]] breaks out against [[Armenians|the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan]], during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city. 
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Gulf War|Persian Gulf War]]: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraq]] out of [[Kuwait]].
*[[1997]] &ndash; Space Shuttle program: ''[[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Atlantis]]'' launches from the Kennedy Space Center on mission [[STS-81]] to the Russian space station ''[[Mir]]'', carrying astronaut [[Jerry M. Linenger]] for a four-month stay on board the station, replacing astronaut [[John E. Blaha]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lynda|first=Warnock|title=STS-81|url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-81.html|access-date=2021-01-11|website=nasa.gov|publisher=NASA}}</ref>
*[[1998]] &ndash; Nineteen European nations agree to forbid [[human cloning]].
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Downtown Disney (Disneyland Resort)|Downtown Disney]] opens to the public as part of the [[Disneyland Resort]] in [[Anaheim, California]].
*[[2004]] &ndash; The world's largest [[ocean liner]], {{RMS|Queen Mary 2}}, makes its maiden voyage.
*[[2005]] &ndash; [[Deep Impact (spacecraft)|Deep Impact]] launches from [[Cape Canaveral]] on a [[Delta II]] rocket.<ref>{{cite book|last=Doody|first=Dave|title=Deep Space Craft: An Overview of Interplanetary Flight|location=Berlin|publisher=Springer|date=2010|isbn=9783642100468|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gp-2B7AUPVUC|page=365}}</ref>
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[Incidents during the Hajj|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 [[pilgrim]]s.
*[[2007]] &ndash; Comet [[C/2006 P1 (McNaught)]], one of the brightest comets ever observed is at its zenith visible during the day.
*[[2010]] &ndash; An [[2010 Haiti earthquake|earthquake in Haiti]] occurs, killing between 220,000 and 300,000 people and destroying much of the capital [[Port-au-Prince]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Haiti Earthquake Fast Facts|publisher=CNN|date=December 26, 2018|access-date=January 12, 2020|url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/12/world/haiti-earthquake-fast-facts/index.html|postscript=none}}; {{cite journal|last1=DesRoches|first1=Reginald|last2=Comerio|first2=Mary|last3=Eberhard|first3=Marc|last4=Mooney|first4=Walter|last5=Rix|first5=Glenn J.|title=Overview of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake|journal=Earthquake Spectra|date=October 2011|volume=27 |pages=S1–S21|doi=10.1193/1.3630129 |bibcode=2011EarSp..27....1D |s2cid=51746361 |access-date=January 11, 2020|url=https://escweb.wr.usgs.gov/share/mooney/142.pdf}}</ref>
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[2012 Romanian protests|Violent protests]] occur in [[Bucharest]], Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President [[Traian Băsescu]]'s economic [[austerity]] measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers. 
*[[2015]] &ndash; [[January 2015 raid on Kolofata|Government raids]] kill 143 [[Boko Haram]] fighters in [[Kolofata|Kolofata, Cameroon]].
*[[2016]] &ndash; Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a [[January 2016 Istanbul bombing|bombing]] near the [[Sultan Ahmed Mosque|Blue Mosque in Istanbul]].
*[[2020]] &ndash; [[Taal Volcano]] in the Philippines [[2020 Taal Volcano eruption|erupts]] and kills 39 people.