What are the important events that happened on January 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 12: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 12 is the 12th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 30, 2023 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,705,017,600 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 ‘dodecagon’ day.
Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 29 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 4,039 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 12 Historical Events
- 1848 –The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- 1898 –Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
- 1899 –13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued from the stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat when it floundered off the coast of Devon, England.
- 1908 –A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
- 1911 –The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
- 1915 –The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
- 1932 –Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
- 1964 –Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
- 1970 –Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
- 2006 –The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
Who were born on January 12?
- 1746 –Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (d. 1827)
- 1797 –Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873)
- 1856 –John Singer Sargent, American artist (d. 1925)
- 1916 –William Pleeth, British cellist (d. 1999)
- 1953 –Mary Harron, Canadian screenwriter
- 1960 –Jorge Pupo, Cuban American actor
- 1970 –Mig Ayesa, Australian musician
- 1978 –Jeremy Camp, American musician
- 1979 –David Zabriskie, American cyclist
- 1995 –Laurel McGoff, American reality show contestant
Who died on January 12?
- 1834 –William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
- 1965 –Lorraine Hansberry, American writer (b. 1936)
- 1976 –Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
- 1988 –Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
- 1997 –Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1901)
- 2000 –Marc Davis, American animator (b. 1913)
- 2001 –William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (b. 1913)
- 2002 –Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
- 2005 –Alessia di Matteo, first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (b. 2003)
- 2005 –Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
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