The Senate's First Elected Woman
On January 12, 1932, Arkansas voters elected Hattie Caraway to the U.S. Senate with 92 percent of the vote — the first woman ever elected to that chamber.
On January 12
The Night Opera Flew Over the Airwaves
On January 12, 1910, inventor Lee de Forest transmitted the world’s first live opera broadcast — Acts II and III of Tosca — from the stage of New York’s Metropolitan Opera House.
91 Miles an Hour on Ice
On January 12, 1904, Henry Ford drove a stripped-down racer across the frozen Lake St. Clair and set a world speed record of 91.37 miles per hour.