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, 475,800 hours 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.
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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
- 1606 –The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
- 1776 –American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
- 1861 –American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
- 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.
- 1935 –First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
- 1954 –Bill Haley & His Comets record “Rock Around the Clock” in New York City.
- 1955 –The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
- 1980 –Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.
- 1998 –An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
- 2002 –A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
Who were born on April 12?
- 1883 –Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1959)
- 1919 –Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader (d. 1991)
- 1940 –Herbie Hancock, American musician and composer
- 1948 –Marcello Lippi, Italian football coach
- 1950 –David Cassidy, American singer and actor
- 1964 –Amy Ray, American musician
- 1965 –Tom O'Brien, American actor-producer
- 1968 –Adam Graves, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 –J. Scott Campbell, American comic book artist
- 1979 –Jordan De Jong, American baseball player
Who died on April 12?
- 1675 –Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1609)
- 1782 –Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
- 1817 –Charles Messier, French astronomer (b. 1730)
- 1850 –Adoniram Judson, American missionary (b. 1788)
- 1945 –Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
- 1962 –Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Indian politician and engineer (b. 1861)
- 1980 –William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian politician (b. 1913)
- 2006 –Rajkumar, Indian film actor/singer (b. 1929)
- 2008 –Jerry Zucker, Israeli-born American businessman (b. 1949)
- 2010 –Palito, Filipino comedian (b. 1934)
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