This Day, That Year – January 12

Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon, was born on this day in 1964.

Did you know that:

• Igor Kurtshatov, a Russian nuclear physicist who built the first Russian nuclear bomb, was born on this day in 1903
• A long-distance radio message was sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time on this day in 1908
• Zain Malik, better known as Zayn, is a British singer born on this day in 1993