Jan. 12 (UPI) — 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.
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In 1932, Hattie Caraway, D-Ark., became the first woman elected to serve a full term as a United States senator.
U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks as Janet Reno, the first female nominee for attorney general, listens in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on February 11, 1993. On January 12, 1994, Clinton asked Reno to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Whitewater land deal. UPI File Photo
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.
On January 12, 1932, Hattie Caraway, D-Ark., pictured in 1936, became the first woman elected to serve a full term as a United States senator. File Photo by Library of Congress/UPI
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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.
Turkish police stand guard as forensic experts inspect the site of a blast in the Blue Mosque area in Istanbul’s tourist hub of Sultanahmet, Turkey on January 12, 2016. File Photo by Ali Turkel/UPI
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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.
On January 12, 1912, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, pictured in 1913, 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. File Photo by Library of Congress/UPI
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In 2024, the United States and its allies conducted a full, large-scale retaliation against recent Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.
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