About October 12
October 12, 2024 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.
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Libra is the sun 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.
What Happened On October 12
- 1216 –King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge
- 1398 –The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
- 1492 –Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached India
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1822 –Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazil
- 1871 –Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
- 1892 –The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage.
- 1928 –An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston
- 1933 –The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice
- 1945 –World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
- 1953 –“The Caine Mutiny Court Martial” opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York
- 1960 –Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
- 1962 –Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages
- 1964 –The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits
- 1967 –Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam’s opposition
- 1968 –Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain
- 1970 –Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
- 1979 –The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
- 1984 –Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
- 1988 –Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
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