Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 12
This is a list of selected January 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 1838 – In order to avoid persecution by anti-Mormons, Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. and his followers fled Kirtland, Ohio, for Far West, Missouri.
- 1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law (pictured) was founded, eventually graduating many of the leading Filipino political figures since then.
- 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union's Red Army crossed the Vistula River in Poland on their way to invade Germany.
- 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.