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A bit of January 12th history…
1528 - Gustav I of Sweden crowned King of Sweden for 37 years and becomes known as the “Father of the Nation”
1554 - Bayinnaung crowned King of Burma, goes on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia (pictured)
1939 - Timely Comics (later Marvel) founded
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast
1959 - American record company Motown is founded as Tamala Records
1962 - Operation Ranch Hand begins, a US Air Force operation to spray south Vietnamese forests with defoliants such as Agent Orange
2010 - Earthquake devastates Haiti, killing approx. 160,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-Au-Prince
A bit of January 12th history… 1528 - Gustav I of Sweden crowned...