April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of death January 12, 1980
The temperature on January 12, 1980 was between -7.3 °C and -2.7 °C and averaged -5.5 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 3 » The USSNautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
April 30 » Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.
May 14 » Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.
July 30 » Vanuatu gains independence.
October 9 » Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
November 20 » Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
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