Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 12
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January 12: Coming-of-Age Day in Japan (2009)
- 1838 – In order to avoid anti-Mormon persecution, Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. and his followers fled Kirtland, Ohio for Far West, Missouri.
- 1848 – The Palermo rising in Sicily commenced against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- 1872 – Yohannes IV (pictured) was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
- 1959 – Motown Records was founded as Tamla Records in Detroit, Michigan, eventually popularizing the "Motown" style of soul music.
- 1964 – Rebels led by John Okello overthrew Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah, ending 200 years of Arab dominance in Zanzibar.
- 1967 – Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically frozen with intent of future resuscitation.