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Events on January 12

• 1780 In Zurich, Salomon Gessner publishes the first issue of Zürcher Zeitung.
• 1818 The Grand Duchy of Baden grants Karl von Drais the privilege for the dandy horse.
• 1912 At the last Reichstag election before the First World War and the end of the German Empire in 1918, the SPD becomes the strongest party for the first time not only in terms of votes cast, but also in terms of seats.
• 1919 In Germany, the Spartacist uprising is suppressed by Friedrich Ebert with the assistance of the Supreme Army Command, led by Gustav Noske (MSPD).
• 1967 Kommune I, centered around Fritz Teufel, Dieter Kunzelmann, Rainer Langhans and others, is formed by occupying the apartment of the writer Uwe Johnson at 14 Niedstraße in the Friedenau district of Berlin. It constitutes an important part of the extraparliamentary opposition and the German student movement.
• 1969 The rock band Led Zeppelin releases its self-titled debut album, which includes, among other things, the song Dazed and Confused.
• 1981 The television series Dynasty premieres on the US television network ABC.
• 1987 In La Brévine, located in the Neuchâtel Jura, a temperature of −41.8 °C is recorded, the record low temperature at an inhabited place in Switzerland.
• 1999 In Hamburg, Europe's first hydrogen filling station is put into operation. Six companies carry out deliveries using hydrogen-powered vehicles suitable for this purpose.
• 2004 The Queen Mary 2 of the Cunard Line, the world's largest passenger ship at the time with 148,528 GRT, sets out from its home port of Southampton on its maiden voyage to the Canary Islands, the Caribbean and Florida.
• 2010 The defense company Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles is founded.
• 2016 Ten German tourists are killed in a terrorist attack in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul.

Born on January 12

• 1873 Spyridon Louis, Greek athlete
• 1893 Hermann Göring, German politician, military officer and war criminal
• 1900 Siegfried Schürenberg, German actor and voice actor
• 1910 Luise Rainer, German-British actress, two-time Oscar winner
• 1940 Matthias Habich, German actor
• 1951 Kirstie Alley, American actress
• 1960 Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
• 1970 Zack de la Rocha, American singer
• 1990 Sergei Alexandrowitsch Karjakin, Russian chess grandmaster
• 2002 Eva Lys, German tennis player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „12. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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