About October 12
October 12, 2025 is the 285th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
You can browse the full year calendar in case you need it.
What no one tells you about your first name’s personality. Are there magical powers in your given name? Check out Vanessa’s personality today! (Sponsored links)
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 128 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 12
- 539 BC –The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
- 1216 –King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1692 –The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
- 1773 –America‘s first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’in Virginia
- 1792 –First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
- 1823 –Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
- 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.
- 1915 –World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
- 1928 –An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston
- 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
- 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
- 1979 –The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
- 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.
- 1983 –Japan’s former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
- 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.
- 1994 –NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere).
- 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
- 2002 –Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
Are you looking for a day of the week calculator? Try it on any date like anniversaries, birthday of someone you know, or any other date that is special to you. You can even try it on historical dates. For example: October 12
(Sponsored by DayOfTheWeek.org)
Share or Link to This Page: