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, 28,988,640 minutes 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
- 881 –Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor
- 1771 –Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
- 1832 –Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
- 1851 –Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush.
- 1909 –The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
- 1935 –USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
- 1956 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- 1992 –The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
- 2002 –The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
- 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?
- 1567 –Thomas Campion, English composer and poet (d. 1620)
- 1920 –Pran, Indian actor
- 1942 –Pat Dobson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1944 –Moe Bandy, American singer
- 1949 –Joaquín Sabina, Spanish singer and songwriter
- 1952 –Michael McDonald, American musician
- 1954 –Joseph Jordania, Australian/Georgian evolutionary musicologist
- 1969 –Meja, Swedish singer
- 1979 –Jesse Spencer, Australian actor
- 1992 –Faisal ibn Hamad Al Khalifah, prince of Bahrain (d. 2006)
Who died on February 12?
- 1554 –Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the English throne (b. 1537)
- 1590 –François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (b. 1524)
- 1958 –Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (b. 1897)
- 1961 –Branko Miljković, Serbian poet (b. 1934)
- 1970 –Ishman Bracey, American blues musician (b. 1901)
- 1980 –Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (b. 1913)
- 1983 –Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887)
- 1993 –James Bulger, English murder victim (b. 1990)
- 2000 –Andy Lewis, Australian musician (b. 1967)
- 2000 –Oliver, American pop singer (b. 1945)
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