What are the important events that happened on December 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 12: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 12 is the 347th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 19 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 29, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,733,961,600 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 ‘trihectatetracontaheptagon’ day.
Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 48 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 4,374 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 12 Historical Events
1901 –
Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John’s, Newfoundland.
1911 –
Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
1911 –
King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck are enthroned as Emperor and Empress of India.
1925 –
The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia.
1935 –
Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
1942 –
World War II: German troops begin Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
1950 –
Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services.
1963 –
Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1964 –
Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first President of the Republic of Kenya.
1979 –
A major earthquake and tsunami kill 259 people in Colombia.
Who were born on December 12?
1805 –
Henry Wells, American banking executive (d. 1878)
1903 –
Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer (d. 1976)
1917 –
James Wall, American actor and stage manager (d. 2010)
1928 –
Helen Frankenthaler, American artist (d. 2011)
1940 –
Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
1942 –
Peter Sarstedt, British musician
1950 –
Pedro Ferriz de Con, Mexican radio and TV news anchor
1956 –
Johan van der Velde, Dutch cyclist
1979 –
Nate Clements, American football player
1990 –
Victor Moses, Nigerian-born British footballer
Who died on December 12?
1913 –
Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
1970 –
Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
1976 –
Vinko Žganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
1985 –
Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
1994 –
Donna J. Stone, American poet (b. 1933)
2002 –
Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (b. 1965)
2005 –
Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician (b. 1957)
2006 –
Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1935)
2006 –
Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
2006 –
Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1917)
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