This site was created to easily navigate collection of various events in history. History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past. It is important to know dates and events in the past.

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January 12th, 2007	Event	Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
January 12th, 2007	Death	Sir James Killen, Australian politician (born in 1925)
January 12th, 2007	Death	Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (born in 1937)
January 12th, 2006	Event	The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
January 12th, 2006	Event	A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
January 12th, 2006	Event	Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Agca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.
January 12th, 2006	Event	The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
January 12th, 2005	Event	Deep Impact (space mission) launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.
January 12th, 2005	Death	Alessia di Matteo, first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (born in 2003)
January 12th, 2005	Death	Amrish Puri, Indian actor (born in 1932)

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