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 102nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 30, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,744,416,000 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 ‘hectadigon’ day.
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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 311 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 4,495 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 12 Historical Events
- 1557 –Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.
- 1861 –American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1934 –The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
- 1935 –First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
- 1937 –Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
- 1963 –The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
- 1968 –Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
- 1994 –Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
- 1998 –An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
- 2009 –Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their official currency.
Who were born on April 12?
- 812 –Muhammad at-Taqi, Muslim Shia Imam (d. 835)
- 1705 –William Cookworthy, English chemist (d. 1780)
- 1799 –Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855)
- 1893 –Robert Harron, American actor (d. 1920)
- 1916 –Benjamin Libet, American scientist (d. 2007)
- 1951 –Tom Noonan, American actor
- 1971 –Nicholas Brendon, American actor
- 1972 –Paul Lo Duca, American baseball player
- 1977 –Sarah Jane Morris, American actor
- 1980 –Brian McFadden, Irish singer
Who died on April 12?
- 1687 –Ambrose Dixon, British-born American settler (b. c. 1619)
- 1748 –William Kent, English architect (b. c. 1685)
- 1788 –Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-born composer (b. 1719)
- 1962 –Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Indian politician and engineer (b. 1861)
- 1989 –Abbie Hoffman, American political activist (b. 1936)
- 1999 –Boxcar Willie, American singer (b. 1931)
- 2002 –George Shevelov, Ukrainian-born American linguist and academic (b. 1908)
- 2003 –Sydney Lassick, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2006 –Puggy Pearson, American poker player (b. 1929)
- 2010 –Palito, Filipino comedian (b. 1934)
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