What are the important events that happened on February 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 12: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 12 is the 43rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 322 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 30, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,739,318,400 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 ‘tetracontatrigon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 370 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 4,436 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 12 Historical Events
- 1541 –Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
- 1554 –A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
- 1817 –An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
- 1818 –Bernardo O'Higgins formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
- 1894 –Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris’s Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
- 1909 –New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
- 1909 –The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
- 1934 –The Austrian Civil War begins.
- 2002 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 2004 –The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Who were born on February 12?
- 1665 –Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (d. 1721)
- 1752 –Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (d. 1821)
- 1785 –Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (d. 1838)
- 1857 –Bobby Peel, English cricketer (d. 1943)
- 1902 –William Collier, American stage and film actor (d. 1987)
- 1907 –Joseph Kearns, American actor (d. 1962)
- 1930 –Arlen Specter, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
- 1945 –Maud Adams, Swedish actress
- 1947 –Jim Durham, American sportscaster
- 1979 –Richard Barnwell, English footballer
Who died on February 12?
- 1590 –François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (b. 1524)
- 1763 –Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (b. 1688)
- 1929 –Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (b. 1853)
- 1935 –Georges Auguste Escoffier, French chef (b. 1846)
- 1942 –Grant Wood, American painter (b.1891)
- 1960 –Jean-Michel Atlan, French painter (b. 1913)
- 1991 –Roger Patterson, American death metal bass player (b. 1968)
- 1998 –Hugh Gardner Ackley, American economist (b.1915)
- 2003 –Vali Myers, Australian painter (b. 1930)
- 2011 –Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer (b. 1919)
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