On this day: January 12

January 12: Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania (1964)

Mission Santa Clara

• 1554 – Bayinnaung, who later assembled the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, was crowned king of the Burmese Taungoo Dynasty.
• 1777 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís (pictured), a Spanish mission that formed the basis of both the city of Santa Clara, California and Santa Clara University, was established.
• 1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law was founded; many leading Filipino political figures have since graduated from it.
• 1967 – Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically frozen with intent of future resuscitation.
• 2007 – Comet McNaught reached perihelion and became the brightest comet in over 40 years with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.

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