This Day in History: January 12

January 12

The first public museum in the U.S. was established in Charleston, S.C.

H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.

The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.

Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.

A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.

Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.

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