January, 12 #onthisday 1528. Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already reigned since his election in June 1523. 1554. Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma. 1848. The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. 1872. Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years. 1915. The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote. 1932. Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate. 1942. World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board. 1964. Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic. 1970. Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War. 1986. Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a payload specialist. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #gustavi #sweden #bayinnaung #burma #palermo #sicily #bourbonkingdom #yohannesiv #ethiopia #hattiecaraway #wwii #zanzibar #nigeria #biafra #naza #astronomy https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ8PfeonBbw/?igshid=1q76ydpbcf7ik
