Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 12

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 * 475 – Basiliscus became Byzantine emperor after Zeno was forced to flee Constantinople.
 * 1554 – Bayinnaung, who later assembled what was probably the largest empire in the history of mainland Southeast Asia, was crowned as the king of the Burmese Toungoo dynasty.
 * 1777 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís (pictured), 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.
 * 1808 – John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church in Reculver from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture.
 * 1865 – The foundation stone of Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork was laid.
 * 1895 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, was founded.
 * 1916 – Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann became the first German aviators to be awarded the Pour le Mérite, Germany's highest military honour.
 * 1918 – An underground explosion at a coal mine in Staffordshire, England, killed 155 men and boys.
 * 1964 – Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah was overthrown by rebels led by John Okello, ending 200 years of Arab dominance in Zanzibar.
 * 1967 – Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
 * 2010 – An earthquake registering 7.0 Mw struck Haiti, killing more than 100,000 people.
 * 2010 – Iranian physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was assassinated while leaving his home for the University of Tehran, where he was a professor.
 * Born/died: | John Winthrop |b.or|1587; 1588| Rosalba Carriera |b|1673| Étienne Lenoir |b|1822| John Singer Sargent |b|1856| Spyridon Louis |b|1873|  Hermann Göring |b|1893| Austin Chapman |d|1926 | Nikolai Podgorny |d|1983| Zhansaya Abdumalik|b|2000| Daniel Bensaïd |d|2010 Olga Ladyzhenskaya |d|2004|

January 12: Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania (1964)


 * 1659 – The fort at Allahabad was surrendered to the forces of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
 * 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Natal Native Contingent and British troops defeated Zulu forces in the Action at Sihayo's Kraal.
 * 1899 – During a storm, the crew of Lynmouth Lifeboat Station transported their 10-ton lifeboat 15 mi overland in order to rescue a damaged schooner.
 * 1969 – British rock band Led Zeppelin released their first album, Led Zeppelin, in the United States.
 * 2007 – Comet McNaught (pictured) reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet in over 40 years, with an apparent magnitude of &minus;5.5.