January 12

Today in History
• 1773 - The first public museum in America was established in Charleston, SC
• 1879 - The British-Zulu War began when the British invaded Zululand
• 1896 - H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph
• 1904 - Henry Ford set a new land speed record when he reached 91.37 miles per hour
• 1915 - The U.S. Congress established the Rocky Mountain National Park
• 1915 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote
• 1932 - Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate
• 1991 - A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Healthy Weight, Healthy Look Day
• National Curried Chicken Day
• National Hot Tea Day
• National Kettlebell Day
• National Pharmacist Day
• National Youth Day
• Remembrance Day
• Work Harder Day

Birthdays
• 1562 - Charles Emanuel I, the great, Duke of Savoy
• 1579 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist, (found boiling point temperature)
• 1588 - John Winthrop, English Puritan lawyer and 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colon
• 1628 - Charles Perrault, French author and fairy tale writer (Tales of Mother Goose)
• 1638 - Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, Austrian field marshal
• 1729 - Edmund Burke, Irish-British statesman, economist, and philosopher
• 1751 - Ferdinand I, king of Sicily and Naples
• 1902 - Ibn Abdul-Aziz Saud, Kuwait, king, Saudi Arabia