January 12 is:
National Pharmacist Day There were approximately 316,500 pharmacists in the United States as of 2016.
Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day; Henry David Thoreau wrote the famous phrase, “In wildness is the preservation of the world.”
Birthday of John Winthrop (January 12, 1588), American colonial leader, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Birthday of John Hancock (1737), American Revolutionary patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He became very popular in Massachusetts, especially after British officials seized his sloop Liberty in 1768 and charged him with smuggling.
Mission Santa Clara de Asís was founded in what is now Santa Clara, California in 1777.
Birthday of John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856), considered the “leading portrait painter of his generation”. See examples of his work at Wikiart
Birthday of Jack London (January 12, 1876), the American author best known for his novel“The Call of the Wild”, Available at Wikisource
1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park was formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
The United States House of Representatives rejected a 1915 proposal to give women the right to vote.
1926 – Original “Sam ‘n’ Henry” aired on Chicago, Illinois radio. The ten-minute program is often considered the first situation comedy. It was renamed “Amos ‘n’ Andy” in 1928.
All in the Family, the famous situation comedy premiered on CBS in 1971. Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker; Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker, his wife; Sally Struthers as Gloria Stivic, their daughter; and Rob Reiner as Michael “Meathead” Stivic, Gloria’s husband. The show ran for nine seasons, ending April 8, 1979. The show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for a U.S. network television comedy, such as racism, antisemitism, infidelity, homosexuality, women’s liberation, rape, religion, miscarriages, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War, menopause, and impotence.
Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorized the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991.