Talk:January 12

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January 12: 1838 – In order to avoid anti-Mormon persecution, Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. and his followers fled Kirtland, Ohio for Far West, Missouri. 1872 – Yohannes IV (pictured) was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years. 1967 – Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically frozen with intent of future resuscitation. 1970 – The self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra in southeastern Nigeria capitulated, ending the Nigerian Civil War. 1971 – The American situation comedy All in the Family, starring Carroll O'Connor as reactionary, bigoted, blue-collar worker Archie Bunker, was first broadcast on the CBS television network. The show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously deemed unsuitable for U.S. network television comedy. More events: January 11 – January 12 – January 13 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 18:15, June 10, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

Led Zeppelin's wiki says their first album was released January 13, not 12.

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I cut from the reference to Sam & Henry in 1926 "from Harlem looking for extra money during the Depression " which seems unlikely since the depression was over 3 years in the future then. -- Infrogmation

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Notability of Bobby Crosby, Dontrelle Willis and the other recently born sports person? Does simply signing a major league contract make one notable?

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1971 - Harrisburg Six: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, DC.

Is this really true? There is no entry for Harrisburg Six, and Phillip Berrigan doesn't mention this plan. Too controverial? Or just plain false? 69.37.9.101 01:35, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[1], [2], [3] and many other articles make reference to this.

however, is an idictment worthy of being listed as an important event? Kingturtle 01:55, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HAL 9000

Can we add HAL 9000 to the births section? I think that it is quite a cool date and there was a huge birthday party for him at the U of I in 1997. Georgipetrov 17:26, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Led Zeppelin

How is Led Zeppelin I notable? Don't get me wrong, I love the band but I don't see how the world changed. -- Borameer ™ 22:00, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

"The world changed" isn't the standard for notability -- "has multiple independent references about it" is. See WP:MUSIC. Susan Davis 22:27, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

...that said, I think it's a weak choice for one of this date's selected anniversaries. Susan Davis 22:28, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Rules is rules :-D It just makes things difficult when we have to deny other people who list their band album releases as non-notable. Thanks for the update though. -- Borameer ™ 23:49, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First Hispanic-American in Space

I noticed that you have deleted my entry for January 12, in which I said that "Space shuttle Columbia blasted off with a crew that included the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz." Not such a specialist in Space issues, just copied this from NYT On This Day page. If Chang-Diaz is not the first Hispanic-American, it seems that NYT also is wrong. Janks (talk) 00:49, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

The first Hispanic was Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Hispanic-American is not enough of a distinction (Hispanic vs. Hispanic-American) to warrant mention[4]. Being of a certain ethnic background doesn't make for global notability in and of itself. What is really the difference between someone who is Hispanic, African, blond, cross-eyed, etc. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 01:01, 9 January 2008 (UTC)