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SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 2019

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Today is Saturday, January 12, the 12th day of 2019. There are 353 days left in the year.

1755 — Tsarina Elisabeth establishes first Russian University

1806 — French evacuate Vienna

1842 — Franciscan nuns begin missionary work on Netherlands Antilles

1867 — Leo Tolstoy's "Smert Ioonna Groznogo" premieres in St. Petersburg

1900 — Freeland Colony founded in U.S.

1904 — Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garison

1906 — Football rules committee legalizes the forward pass

1915 — House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote

1918 — Montreal Canadien Joe Malone scores five goals beating Ottawa 9-4

1921 — Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes first commissioner of baseball

1924 — History of Science Society organized at Boston

1925 — John Howard Lawson's "Processional" premieres in New York




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