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 103rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 30, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,712,880,000 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 ‘hectatrigon’ 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 292 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 4,130 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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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.
- 1831 –Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw).
- 1934 –The U.S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
- 1961 –The Russian (Soviet) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
- 1994 –Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
- 1999 –US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving “intentionally false statements” in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
- 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.
- 2009 –Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their official currency.
Who were born on April 12?
- 1484 –Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
- 1823 –Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (d. 1886)
- 1923 –Ann Miller, American actor and dancer (d. 2004)
- 1930 –Manuel Neri, American artist
- 1946 –Ed O'Neill, American actor
- 1947 –Dan Lauria, American actor
- 1954 –Pat Travers, Canadian musician
- 1965 –Tom O'Brien, American actor-producer
- 1977 –Glenn Rogers, Scottish cricketer
- 1979 –Cristian Ranalli, Italian footballer
Who died on April 12?
- 65 –Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
- 1125 –Vladislaus I of Bohemia (b. 1065)
- 1704 –Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer (b. 1627)
- 1878 –William Magear “Boss” Tweed, American politician (b. 1823)
- 1971 –Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (b. 1871)
- 1971 –Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
- 2002 –George Shevelov, Ukrainian-born American linguist and academic (b. 1908)
- 2005 –Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter, translator, and radio and TV personality (b. 1941)
- 2007 –Kevin Crease, Australian TV anchor (b. 1936)
- 2008 –Patrick Hillery, Irish politician (b. 1923)
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