This was 12th day of the year and 353 days remained in the year.
January 12 in History
1773
The first public museum in the U.S. was established in Charleston, S.C.
1896
H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.
1915
The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1932
Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
1964
One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.
1991
A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.
1998
Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.
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