What are the important events that happened on October 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 12: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 12 is the 286th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 29, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,728,691,200 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 ‘dihectaoctacontahexagon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 109 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 4,313 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 12 Historical Events
- 1654 –The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
- 1692 –The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
- 1823 –Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
- 1917 –World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
- 1960 –Inejiro Asanuma, Chair of the Japanese Socialist Party, is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The cameras were rolling at the time, so the moment was caught on film.
- 1968 –Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain
- 1997 –Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
- 1999 –The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia
- 2000 –The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39
- 2002 –Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
Who were born on October 12?
- 1860 –Elmer Sperry, American inventor (d. 1930)
- 1872 –Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (d. 1958)
- 1925 –Denis Lazure, Quebec politician (d. 2008)
- 1957 –Kristen Bjorn, British film director
- 1960 –Hiroyuki Sanada, Japanese actor
- 1962 –Chris Botti, American jazz musician
- 1963 –Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director (d. 2010)
- 1966 –Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish musician and author
- 1981 –Sneha, Indian actress
- 1986 –Ioannis Maniatis, Greek footballer
Who died on October 12?
- 638 –Pope Honorius I
- 642 –Pope John IV
- 1730 –King Frederick IV of Denmark (b. 1671)
- 1965 –Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
- 1967 –Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader (b. 1910)
- 1988 –Coby Whitmore, American painter and magazine illustrator (b. 1913)
- 1989 –Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (b. 1913)
- 2003 –Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
- 2007 –Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
- 2011 –Patricia Breslin, American actress (b. 1931)
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