Today is Sunday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2025 with 353 to follow.
The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
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Today is Sunday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2025 with 353 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. They include writer Charles Perrault in 1628; artist John Singer Sargent in 1856; writer Jack London in 1876; World War II Nazi leader Hermann Goering in 1893; mentalist The Amazing Kreskin, born George Joseph Kresge, in 1935; musician William Lee Golden (Oak Ridge Boys) in 1939 (age 86); International Boxing Hall of Fame member Joe Frazier in 1944; writer Haruki Murakami in 1949 (age 76); actor Kirstie Alley in 1951; radio personality Rush Limbaugh in 1951; radio personality Howard Stern in 1954 (age 71); journalist Christiane Amanpour in 1958 (age 67); actor Oliver Platt in 1960 (age 65); businessman Jeff Bezos in 1964 (age 61); musician/filmmaker Rob Zombie (White Zombie) in 1965 (age 60); actor Olivier Martinez in 1966 (age 59); model/animal rights activist Heather Mills in 1968 (age 57); actor Rachael Harris in 1968 (age 57); musician Zack de la Rocha (Rage Against the Machine) in 1970 (age 55); musician Raekwon (Wu-Tang Clan) in 1970 (age 55); musician Melanie Chisholm (Spice Girls) in 1974 (age 51); actor/musician Issa Rae in 1985 (age 40); actor Cynthia Addai-Robinson in 1985 (age 40); actor Naya Rivera in 1987; musician Do Kyungsoo (EXO) in 1993 (age 32); musician Zayn Malik (One Direction) in 1993 (age 32); actor Will Tilston in 2007 (age 18).
On this date in history:
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 today in testimony before the Stanley Committee.
In 1919, UP correspondent John Graudenz arrested by German troops while en route to the scene of an attack in Berlin, he was later released.
In 1919, U.S. President Woodrow WIlson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando met in Paris for what would be the first of more than 100 meetings of the so-called Big Four nations. These allies gathered to hash out the peace terms ending World War I and established the League of Nations.
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. Also aboard the flight was Franklin Chang-Diaz, the first Hispanic American in space.
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. Reno named New York lawyer Robert Fiske.
In 2006, about 350 people 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. The massive quake crippled the already-strained infrastructure of the island nation and sparked a cholera outbreak that killed thousands over the next several years.
In 2024, the United States and its allies conducted a full, large-scale retaliation against recent Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.
A thought for the day: "Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies." -- American writer Sandra Cisneros