Today is Tuesday, January 12, the 12th day of 2010. There are 353 days left in the year.
1755 _ Tsarina Elisabeth establishes first Russian University
1816 _ France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever
1836 _ HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Sydney Australia
1839 _ Anthracite coal first used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Pa.
1933 _ U.S. Congress recognize independence of Philippines
1948 _ Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast
1961 _ U.N. genocide pact goes into effect
1966 _ LBJ says U.S. should stay in S. Vietnam until communist aggression ends
1970 _ Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria
1976 _ U.N. Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Organization