Tuesday, January 12, 2010

JANUARY 13

1687 - English buccaneer and navigator William Dampier and other companions leave the Philippine island of Mindanao after obtaining some supply for their provisions; he will describe the Muslim Mindanao people as "the greatest nation in the island."

1128  - Pope Honorius II endorses the  Knights Templar by granting papal sanction to the military monastic order created to protect Christian pilgrims en-route to the Holy Land.

1972 - The Prime Minister of Ghana, Dr Kofi Busia, is ousted  in a bloodless military coup while he undergoes treatment in London, United Kingdom.

2004 - United States soldier Joseph Darby reports the abuses committed on Iraqi prisoners to the Criminal Investigations Division of the Army.

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