January 12th, 1955

Born on January 12th, 1955

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What happened on January 12th, 1955?

January 12th, 1955

A Martin 2-0-2 and Douglas DC-3 collide over Boone County, Kentucky, killing 15 people.

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What else happened on January 12th?

January 12th, 1879

Anglo-Zulu War: Natal Native Contingent and British troops defeated Zulu forces in the Action at Sihayo's Kraal.

January 12th, 1865

The foundation stone of Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork was laid.

January 12th, 2010

Iranian physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was assassinated while leaving his home for the University of Tehran, where he was a professor.

January 12th, 2007

Comet McNaught (pictured) reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet in over 40 years, with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.

January 12th, 1964

Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah was overthrown by rebels led by John Okello, ending 200 years of Arab dominance in Zanzibar.

January 12th, 1918

An underground explosion at a coal mine in Staffordshire, England, killed 155 men and boys.

January 12th, 1916

Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann became the first German aviators to be awarded the Pour le Mérite, Germany's highest military honour.

January 12th, 1895

The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, was founded.

January 12th, 1808

John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church in Reculver from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture.

January 12th, 1777

Mission Santa Clara de Asís (pictured), a Spanish mission in California that formed the basis of both the city of Santa Clara and Santa Clara University, was established by the Franciscans.

January 12th, 1659

The fort at Allahabad was surrendered to the forces of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.

January 12th, 1554

Bayinnaung, who later assembled what was probably the largest empire in the history of mainland Southeast Asia, was crowned as the king of the Burmese Toungoo dynasty.

January 12th, 0475

Basiliscus became Byzantine emperor after Zeno was forced to flee Constantinople.

January 12th, 2020

Taal Volcano in the Philippines erupts and kills 39 people.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 12th

Born on January 12th, 1955

69

Hans-Joachim Hartnick

East German cyclist

*January 12th, 1955, Wormlage

69

Arif Yunus

Azerbaijani writer

*January 12th, 1955, Baku

69

Kerry-Lynne Findlay

Canadian politician

*January 12th, 1955, British Columbia

69

Rockne S. O'Bannon

American science fiction writer

*January 12th, 1955, Los Angeles

56

Tom Ardolino

American rock drummer

*January 12th, 1955, Springfield †January 5th, 2012

69

Harald Link

Thai businessman

*January 12th, 1955, Basel

63

Dieudonné Bogmis

Cameroonian catholic bishop (1955-2018)

*January 12th, 1955, Nyanon †August 25th, 2018, Éséka

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 12th?

68

Nikolai Noskov

Soviet and Russian singer and song writer

*January 12th, 1956, Gagarin

75

Haruki Murakami

Japanese writer (born 1949)

*January 12th, 1949, Kyoto

66

Matthias Döschner

German association football player and manager

*January 12th, 1958, Dohna

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

64

Oliver Platt

American actor

*January 12th, 1960, Windsor

60

Jeff Bezos

American business magnate (born 1964)

*January 12th, 1964, Albuquerque

25

Krishna Nagar

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Jaipur

25

Thom Gicquel

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Tours

63

Simon Russell Beale

British actor and music historian

*January 12th, 1961, Penang

70

Howard Stern

American radio and television personality

*January 12th, 1954, Queens

31

Ronya Othmann

German writer

*January 12th, 1993, Munich

66

Christiane Amanpour

English-Iranian news anchor and international correspondent

*January 12th, 1958, Ealing

23

Marit Crajé

Dutch Handball player

*January 12th, 2001, Apeldoorn

64

Guido Bontempi

Road bicycle racer

*January 12th, 1960, Gussago

38

Jakob Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*January 12th, 1986, Oslo

74

Sheila Jackson Lee

U.S. Representative from Texas

*January 12th, 1950, Queens

67

Jeremy Sams

British theatre director, writer, translator, orchestrator, musical director, film composer, and lyricist

*January 12th, 1957, London

76

William Nicholson

British screenwriter, playwright and novelist (1948-)

*January 12th, 1948, Lewes

67

Joe Frazier

American boxer (1944–2011)

*January 12th, 1944, Beaufort †November 7th, 2011, Philadelphia

70

Waldemar Januszczak

English art critic and journalist

*January 12th, 1954, Basingstoke

Same year
Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47 president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

68

Whoopi Goldberg

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

*November 13th, 1955, New York City

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No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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