About January 12
January 12, 2024 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.
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Capricorn is the sun 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.
What Happened On January 12
- 475 –Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople.
- 1539 –Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
- 1773 –The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1808 –The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
- 1848 –The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- 1872 –Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
- 1895 –The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
- 1906 –Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
- 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.
- 1966 –Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
- 1967 –Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
- 1976 –The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
- 1991 –Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
- 1998 –Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
- 2001 –Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
- 2004 –The world’s largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
- 2005 –Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.
- 2006 –A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
- 2007 –Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
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