• Jan 12 2007

    19 Years ago

    Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.


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  • Jan 12 2006

    20 Years ago

    The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its Iran's nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.


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  • Jan 12 2006

    20 Years ago

    Incidents during the Hajj during the Stoning of the devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.


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  • Jan 12 2006

    20 Years ago

    Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Agca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.


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  • Jan 12 2006

    20 Years ago

    The French warship FS Clemenceau (1957-1997) reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.


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  • Jan 12 2005

    21 Years ago

    Deep Impact (space mission) launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.


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  • Jan 12 2004

    22 Years ago

    The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.


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  • Jan 12 1998

    28 Years ago

    Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.


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  • Jan 12 1995

    31 Years ago

    Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, is arrested for conspiring to kill Louis Farrakhan.


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  • Jan 12 1992

    34 Years ago

    A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.


  • Jan 12 1991

    35 Years ago

    Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.


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  • Jan 12 1976

    50 Years ago

    The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).


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  • Jan 12 1971

    55 Years ago

    The Harrisburg Six: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others 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.


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  • Jan 12 1970

    56 Years ago

    Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.


  • Jan 12 1967

    59 Years ago

    Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonics with intent of future resuscitation.


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  • Jan 12 1966

    60 Years ago

    Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communism aggression there is ended.


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  • Jan 12 1964

    62 Years ago

    Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.


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  • Jan 12 1945

    81 Years ago

    World War II: The Soviet Union begin a large offensive against the Nazism in Eastern Europe.


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  • Jan 12 1942

    84 Years ago

    President of the United States Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.


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  • Jan 12 1940

    86 Years ago

    World War II: Soviet Union bombs cities in Finland.


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