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, 418,824 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 ‘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.
- 1279 –Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon
- 1492 –Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached India
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1773 –America‘s first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’in Virginia
- 1792 –First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
- 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.
- 1960 –Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
- 1999 –Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
Who were born on October 12?
- 1537 –King Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
- 1860 –Elmer Sperry, American inventor (d. 1930)
- 1872 –Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (d. 1958)
- 1924 –Doris Grau, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1924 –Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician (d. 2011)
- 1935 –Don Howe, English football player and manager
- 1955 –Brigitte Lahaie, French talk show host and actress
- 1975 –Marion Jones, American track and field athlete
- 1980 –Ledley King, English footballer
- 1992 –Taylor Horn, American singer
Who died on October 12?
- 632 –Edwin of Northumbria (b.c. 586)
- 1920 –Yu Gwan-sun, Korean independence leader (b. 1904)
- 1958 –Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
- 1985 –Ricky Wilson, American musician (The B-52's) (b. 1953)
- 1989 –Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (b. 1913)
- 1993 –Tofik Bakhramov, Azerbaijani linesman (b. 1926)
- 1998 –Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
- 2002 –Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
- 2005 –C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)
- 2011 –Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
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