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What Happened On 12th January 1899 In History

January 12th (1899) was a Thursday. It's the 11th day of the year (12th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 days left to the end of the year.

Historical Events for 12th January, 1899

  • » Thirteen crew members and five apprentices are rescued from the stricken schooner 'Forest Hall' by the Lynmouth Lifeboat Station known as Lynmouth Lifeboat when the former Shipwrecking Instability and foundering or founders off the coast of Devon.

Famous Birthdays on January 12 in 1899

  • » Pierre Bernac, French opera singer (d. 1979)
  • » Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)

January 12th Famous Deaths for 1899

  • » Hiram Walker, American businessman, founded Canadian Club (b. 1816)

January 12th Holidays in History

  • » Christian Feast Day:
  • » Ailred of Rievaulx
  • » Benedict Biscop
  • » Saint Tatiana known as Tatiana
  • » January 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • » Earliest day on which Lee-Jackson Day can fall while January 18 is the latest, celebrated on the Friday before Martin Luther King Day. (Commonwealth of Virginia)
  • » Public holidays in Turkmenistan e.g Memorial Day (Turkmenistan)
  • » National Youth Day (India)

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