January 12 - the day over the years

On this day the Royal Aeronautical Society was formed in London.

Today is Wednesday, January 12, the twelfth day of 2005.
There are 353 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1709 - Little Ice Age: Two-month freezing period begins in France, crops fail and at least 24.000 Parisians die.

1866 - Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1875 - Kwang-su is the new emperor of China.
1896 - HL Smith takes the first x-ray photograph.

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1908 - A long-distance radio message is sent from Eiffel Tower for first time.
1915 - Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of US Congress; United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
1932 - Hattie W Caraway becomes the first woman elected to US Senate.
1942 - President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
1945 - World War II: The Soviets begin a very large offensive in Eastern Europe against the Nazis.
1964 - Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt and later proclaim a republic.
1966 - Lyndon B Johnson states that US should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended; Batman the TV series debuts on ABC.
1969 - Hard rock band Led Zeppelin release their first album.
1970 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
1976 - UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestinian Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate.
1991 - Persian Gulf War - An act of the US Congress authorises the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
1998 - 19 European nations agree to forbid human cloning.

Today's birthdays
Edmund Burke, statesman, philosopher (1729-1797)
John Singer Sargent, artist (1856-1925)
Swami Vivekananda, guru (1863-1902)
Jack London, author (1876-1916)
Joe Frazier, boxing champion (1944--)