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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_12" title="January 12">January 12</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1554" title="1554">1554</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayinnaung" title="Bayinnaung">Bayinnaung</a></b>, who later assembled what was probably the largest empire in the history of mainland Southeast Asia, was crowned as the king of the Burmese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toungoo_dynasty" title="Toungoo dynasty">Toungoo dynasty</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1777" title="1777">1777</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Santa_Clara_de_As%C3%ADs" title="Mission Santa Clara de Asís">Mission Santa Clara de Asís</a></b>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_missions_in_California" title="Spanish missions in California">Spanish mission in California</a> that formed the basis of both the city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara,_California" title="Santa Clara, California">Santa Clara</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University" title="Santa Clara University">Santa Clara University</a>, was established by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscans" title="Franciscans">Franciscans</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Pit_Disaster" title="Minnie Pit Disaster">An underground explosion</a></b> at a coal mine in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a>, England, killed 155 men and boys.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964" title="1964">1964</a> – Sultan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamshid_bin_Abdullah_of_Zanzibar" title="Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar">Jamshid bin Abdullah</a> was <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar_Revolution" title="Zanzibar Revolution">overthrown by rebels</a></b> led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Okello" title="John Okello">John Okello</a>, ending 200 years of Arab dominance in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar" title="Zanzibar">Zanzibar</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010" title="2010">2010</a> – Iranian physicist <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massoud_Ali-Mohammadi" title="Massoud Ali-Mohammadi">Massoud Ali-Mohammadi</a></b> was assassinated while leaving his home for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Tehran" title="University of Tehran">University of Tehran</a>, where he was a professor.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Winthrop" title="John Winthrop">John Winthrop</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1587 or 1588); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Lenoir" title="Étienne Lenoir">Étienne Lenoir</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1822); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Chapman" title="Austin Chapman">Austin Chapman</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1926)</p>
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