12th January anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1883
  • United States
  • "Birth of Max Eastman, American writer ."
• event
  • 1895
  • Great Britain
  • "The National Trust for England, Wales and Northern Ireland founded."
  • 1908
  • France
  • "The first long-distance radio message was sent, from the Eiffel Tower, Paris ."
  • 1959
  • United States
  • "The Motown record label was founded in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy (Note: at that time it was known as Tamla Records)"
  • 1998
  • Nineteen European nations signed a treaty in Paris opposing human cloning.
  • 1999
  • United States
  • "US President Bill Clinton paid Paula Jones $850,000 under an agreement made in Nov 1998 to officially end the sexual harassment case against him"
• Death
  • 1909
  • Germany
  • "Death of Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician who developed the geometrical theory of numbers and created the concept of space-time"
  • 1983
  • Russian Federation
  • "Death of Nikolay Podgorny, President of the USSR (1965–77) ."