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 285th day of the year 2017 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 29, 2017 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,507,766,400 seconds 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 ‘dihectaoctacontapentagon’ 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 130 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 1,756 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 12 Historical Events
- 539 BC –The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
- 1692 –The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
- 1773 –America‘s first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’in Virginia
- 1933 –The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice
- 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.
- 1979 –The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
- 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.
- 1994 –NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere).
- 1999 –Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
- 2002 –Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
Who were born on October 12?
- 1874 –Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (d. 1942)
- 1894 –Elisabeth of Romania (d. 1956)
- 1904 –Ding Ling, Chinese writer (d. 1986)
- 1916 –Alice Childress, American actress and playwright (d. 1994)
- 1932 –Ned Jarrett, American race car driver
- 1942 –Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1995)
- 1966 –Wim Jonk, Dutch football player
- 1968 –Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer
- 1977 –Javier Toyo, Venezuelan footballer
- 1981 –Brian J. Smith, American actor
Who died on October 12?
- 1565 –Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)
- 1600 –Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)
- 1678 –Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
- 1896 –Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)
- 1915 –Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
- 1940 –Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)
- 1958 –Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
- 1983 –Ernie Roth, American pro wrestling manager (b. 1929)
- 1993 –Tofik Bakhramov, Azerbaijani linesman (b. 1926)
- 2003 –Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
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