Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 12, 2021

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 * Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania (1964)
 * 1554 – Bayinnaung, who later assembled the largest empire in the history of mainland Southeast Asia, was crowned king of the Burmese Toungoo dynasty.
 * 1808 – John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver, from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture.
 * 1899 – During a storm, the crew of the Lynmouth Lifeboat Station transported their 10-ton lifeboat 15 mi overland in order to rescue a damaged schooner.
 * 1921 – Seeking to restore confidence after the Black Sox Scandal, owners of Major League Baseball teams elected former United States district court judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as baseball's first commissioner.
 * 1967 – Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically frozen with intent of future resuscitation.
 * 1969 – British rock band Led Zeppelin released their eponymous first album in the United States.
 * 2007 – Comet McNaught (pictured) reached perihelion and became the brightest comet in over 40 years with an apparent magnitude of &minus;5.5.
 * Born/died: Étienne Lenoir (b. 1822)· John Singer Sargent (b. 1856)· Hermann Göring (b. 1893)· Nikolai Podgorny (d. 1983)· Daniel Bensaïd (d. 2010)

January 12

Rosalba Carriera (b. 1673)· Laura Adams Armer (b. 1874)· Princess Patricia of Connaught (d. 1974)
 * 1777 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís, 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.
 * 1895 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, was founded.
 * 1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law, from which many leading Filipino political figures have since graduated, was founded in Quezon City.
 * 1964 – Rebels led by John Okello overthrew Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah, ending 200 years of Arab dominance in Zanzibar.
 * 2010 – An earthquake registering 7.0 Mw struck Haiti (damage pictured), killing more than 100,000 people.