About April 12
April 12, 2025 is the 102nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aries is the sun 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 311 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 12
- 238 –Gordian II lost the Battle of Carthage against the Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus Thrax and is killed. Gordian I, his father, commits suicide.
- 467 –Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 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.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
- 1910 –The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
- 1955 –The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
- 1963 –The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
- 1968 –Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
- 1970 –Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
- 1980 –Terry Fox begins his “Marathon of Hope” at St. John’s, Newfoundland.
- 1981 –The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) launches on the STS-1 mission.
- 1990 –Jim Gary’s “Twentieth Century Dinosaurs” exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
- 1992 –The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park’s name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
- 1994 –Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
- 2002 –A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
- 2007 –A suicide bomber penetrated the Green Zone and detonated in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
- 2009 –Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their official currency.
- 2010 –A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
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