January 12th, 1979

Born on January 12th, 1979

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What 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.

January 12th, 2016

Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

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

Born on January 12th, 1979

45

David Zabriskie

Road bicycle racer

*January 12th, 1979, Salt Lake City

45

Johnny de Mol

Dutch actor

*January 12th, 1979, Laren

45

Jenny Schmidgall-Potter

Ice hockey player

*January 12th, 1979, Saint Paul

45

Romain Maillard

French athletics competitor

*January 12th, 1979, Beaumont

45

Lee Bo-young

South Korean actress and model

*January 12th, 1979, Seoul

45

Judit Varga

Hungarian composer and pianist

*January 12th, 1979, Győr

45

Martín Ferrando

Uruguayan footballer

*January 12th, 1979, Salto

45

Grzegorz Rasiak

Polish footballer

*January 12th, 1979, Szczecin

45

Gema Pascual

Spanish cyclist

*January 12th, 1979, Madrid

45

Julien Kapek

French athlete

*January 12th, 1979, Clamart

45

Andre Hutson

American basketball player

*January 12th, 1979, Trotwood

45

Marián Hossa

Ice Hockey Player

*January 12th, 1979, Stará Ľubovňa

45

Roland Haldi

Swiss snowboarder

*January 12th, 1979, Saanen

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

25

Krishna Nagar

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Jaipur

25

Thom Gicquel

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Tours

31

Ronya Othmann

German writer

*January 12th, 1993, Munich

38

Jakob Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*January 12th, 1986, Oslo

23

Marit Crajé

Dutch Handball player

*January 12th, 2001, Apeldoorn

51

Hande Yener

Turkish singer

*January 12th, 1973, Kadıköy

60

Jeff Bezos

American business magnate (born 1964)

*January 12th, 1964, Albuquerque

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

75

Haruki Murakami

Japanese writer (born 1949)

*January 12th, 1949, Kyoto

46

Kim Sa-rang

South Korean actress and model

*January 12th, 1978, Vieques

64

Oliver Platt

American actor

*January 12th, 1960, Windsor

46

Tom Flammang

Cyclist

*January 12th, 1978, Esch-sur-Alzette

26

Juan Foyth

Argentine association football player

*January 12th, 1998, La Plata

66

Matthias Döschner

German association football player and manager

*January 12th, 1958, Dohna

63

Simon Russell Beale

British actor and music historian

*January 12th, 1961, Penang

53

Peter Madsen

Danish convicted murderer, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed engineer

*January 12th, 1971, Sæby

46

Jeremy Camp

American singer and songwriter

*January 12th, 1978, Lafayette

31

Zayn Malik

English singer

*January 12th, 1993, Bradford

35

Lee Tomlin

English association football player (born 1989)

*January 12th, 1989, Leicester

50

Melanie C

British singer

*January 12th, 1974, Whiston

Same year
Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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