What are the important events that happened on April 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 12: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 12 is the 103rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 30, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 475,800 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatrigon’ day.
Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 292 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,130 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 12 Historical Events
- 467 –Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1557 –Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.
- 1633 –The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.
- 1910 –The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
- 1917 –World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
- 1945 –U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
- 1955 –The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
- 1970 –Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
- 1981 –The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) launches on the STS-1 mission.
- 2010 –A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
Who were born on April 12?
- 1526 –Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585)
- 1577 –King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (d. 1648)
- 1913 –Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-born American martial artist
- 1925 –Joe Bowman, American sharpshooter, Hollywood consultant, bootmaker & master showman (d. 2009)
- 1928 –Hardy Krüger, German actor
- 1928 –Jean-François Paillard, French conductor
- 1929 –Mukhran Machavariani, Georgian poet (d. 2010)
- 1948 –Joschka Fischer, Foreign Minister of Germany 1998-2005
- 1979 –Claire Danes, American actress
- 1979 –Jennifer Morrison, American actress and model
Who died on April 12?
- 238 –Gordian II, heir to the Roman Empire
- 1125 –Vladislaus I of Bohemia (b. 1065)
- 1795 –Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (b. 1710)
- 1814 –Charles Burney, English music historian (b. 1726)
- 1902 –Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist (b. 1842)
- 1971 –Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
- 1977 –Phil Wrigley, American manufacturer and baseball executive (b. 1894)
- 1999 –Marion Pruett, American spree killer (b. 1949)
- 2007 –Kevin Crease, Australian TV anchor (b. 1936)
- 2008 –Patrick Hillery, Irish politician (b. 1923)
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