Birthday newspaper
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9 years ago today · 1964
Zanzibar Archipelago. The Zanzibar Revolution began on 12 January 1964 and led to the overthrow of the Sultan of Zanzibar Jamshid bin Abdullah and his mainly Arab government by the island's majority Black African population.
This uprising ended centuries of monarchical rule and eventually led to the merger of Zanzibar with Tanganyika to form modern Tanzania.
Famous birthdays: born on this date
Born 1973. Influential Turkish pop singer and songwriter
Born 1876. American adventure writer of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, inspired by his time in the Klondike Gold Rush
Born 1863. Indian Hindu monk whose speech at the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago introduced yoga and Vedanta to the West
From the archives: also on this date
1848. The revolutions of 1848, also known as the springtime of the peoples, were a series of revolutions throughout Europe that spanned almost two years, between January 1848 and October 1849.
1830. The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet.
1945. The Vistula–Oder offensive was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in the European theatre of World War II in January 1945.
Your day in numbers
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth sign, ruled by Saturn
Birthstone
Garnet
The birthstone for January
UK Number 1 single
“Long Haired Lover from Liverpool”
by Little Jimmy Osmond
World population
About 3.9 billion
People on Earth in 1973
The cost of living in Britain, 1973
Average house
£8,600
Typical UK home
Pint of beer
20p
In a UK pub
Loaf of bread
15p
Large white loaf
Average salary
£2,400
UK full-time, per year
Approximate UK averages at the time, in the money of the day.
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Last reviewed: October 2026