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Movie events on the 12th January
After his Mormon bank fails in the Panic of 1837, Joseph Smith flees Kirtland, Ohio, to avoid arrest and heads for Missouri to rebuild his religious community. (September Dawn)
Jack London is born. (San Francisco, California) (Jack London)
Monsieur Audel killed in battle. (Chocolat)
HAL 9000, Artificial Intelligence Computer System, becomes operational. (2001: A Space Odyssey)
Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you... (Urbana Illinois) (2001: A Space Odyssey)