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 102^nd 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.

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.

April 12 Historical Events

• 467 –
  Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 1776 –
  American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
• 1820 –
  Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
• 1865 –
  American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
• 1877 –
  The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
• 1945 –
  U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
• 1963 –
  The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
• 1970 –
  Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
• 1998 –
  An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
• 2007 –
  A suicide bomber penetrated the Green Zone and detonated in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.

Who were born on April 12?

• 1777 –
  Henry Clay, American statesman (d. 1852)
• 1883 –
  Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1959)
• 1913 –
  Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-born American martial artist
• 1950 –
  Flavio Briatore, Italian businessman and F1 team principal (Renault F1)
• 1954 –
  Pat Travers, Canadian musician
• 1956 –
  Andy García, Cuban-born actor
• 1962 –
  Takada Nobuhiko, Japanese wrestler
• 1974 –
  Belinda Emmett, Australian actor (d. 2006)
• 1981 –
  Nicolás Burdisso, Argentine footballer
• 1994 –
  Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress

Who died on April 12?

• 238 –
  Gordian I, Roman Emperor
• 1782 –
  Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
• 1788 –
  Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-born composer (b. 1719)
• 1898 –
  Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Roman Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1820)
• 1902 –
  Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist (b. 1842)
• 1938 –
  Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (b. 1873)
• 1953 –
  Lionel Logue, speech therapist who worked with King George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1880)
• 1983 –
  Carl Morton, American baseball player (b. 1944)
• 1989 –
  Abbie Hoffman, American political activist (b. 1936)
• 2005 –
  Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter, translator, and radio and TV personality (b. 1941)