On This Day in History - January 12th - Almanac - UPI.com
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On January 12, 1921, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of Major League Baseball. Today is Friday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2024. Those born on this date include French fairy tale writer Charles Perrault in 1628, painter John Singer Sargent in 1856, novelist Jack London in 1876, World War II Nazi leader Hermann Goering in 1893, mentalist The Amazing Kreskin in 1935, heavyweight boxer Joe Frazier in 1944, author Haruki Murakami in 1949, actor Kirstie Alley in 1951, radio personality Rush Limbaugh in 1951, radio personality Howard Stern in 1954, journalist Christiane Amanpour in 1958, actor Oliver Platt in 1960, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 1964, musician/film director Rob Zombie in 1965, activist Heather Mills in 1968, actor Rachael Harris in 1968, singer Melanie Chisholm in 1974, actor/singer Issa Rae in 1985, actor Cynthia Addai-Robinson in 1985, actor Naya Rivera in 1987, and singer Zayn Malik in 1993. In 1912, industrialist Andrew Carnegie lined up with the anti-trust view of former President Theodore Roosevelt as against the trust dissolution plans of President Taft. In 1919, UP correspondent John Graudenz was arrested by German troops while en route to the scene of an attack in Berlin, he was later released. In 1921, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of Major League Baseball. In 1932, Hattie Caraway, D-Ark., became the first woman elected to serve a full term as a United States senator. In 1943, the U.S. wartime Office of Price Administration said standard frankfurters would be replaced during World War II by "Victory Sausages" consisting of a mixture of meat and soy meal. In 1986, U.S. Rep. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., traveled into space aboard the shuttle Columbia. In 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton asked Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Whitewater land deal affair that involved him and the first lady. In 2006, about 350 Muslim pilgrims were crushed to death by a stampeding crowd at the entrance to Jamarat Bridge in Mina, Saudi Arabia, during a pilgrimage to Mecca. In 2010, a magnitude-7 earthquake dealt Haiti and its capital Port-au-Prince a catastrophic blow, killing at least 100,000 people. In 2023, U.S. Attorney General appointed Robert Hur as special counsel to investigate the discovery of classified documents found in a private office and a garage of President Joe Biden.
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