What are the important events that happened on October 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 12: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 12 is the 286th day of the year 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 29, 2016 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 410,064 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 ‘dihectaoctacontahexagon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 108 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 1,391 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 12 Historical Events
- 1773 –America‘s first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’in Virginia
- 1823 –Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
- 1892 –The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage.
- 1917 –World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
- 1928 –An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston
- 1953 –“The Caine Mutiny Court Martial” opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York
- 1959 –At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
- 1983 –Japan’s former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
- 1988 –Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
- 1999 –The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia
Who were born on October 12?
- 1840 –Helena Modjeska, Polish actress (d. 1909)
- 1896 –Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
- 1925 –Denis Lazure, Quebec politician (d. 2008)
- 1958 –Bryn Merrick, British musician, (The Damned)
- 1960 –Carlo Perrone, Italian football manager and player
- 1963 –Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director (d. 2010)
- 1965 –Scott O'Grady, American military officer
- 1968 –Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer
- 1975 –Marion Jones, American track and field athlete
- 1979 –Steven Agnew, Northern Irish politician
Who died on October 12?
- 1095 –Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)
- 1678 –Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
- 1845 –Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)
- 1933 –John Lister, English politician (b. 1847)
- 1956 –Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872)
- 1987 –Alf Landon, American politician (b. 1887)
- 1998 –Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (b. 1930)
- 2002 –Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
- 2008 –Karl Chircop, Maltese politician (b. 1965)
- 2011 –Patricia Breslin, American actress (b. 1931)
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