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