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.

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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 128 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On October 12

  • 1398 –
    The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
  • 1582 –
    Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
  • 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.
  • 1773 –
    America‘s first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’in Virginia
  • 1793 –
    The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina
  • 1823 –
    Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
  • 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 Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
  • 1915 –
    World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
  • 1933 –
    The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice
  • 1942 –
    World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.
  • 1944 –
    World War II: The Liberation of Athens from the German invaders.
  • 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
  • 1968 –
    Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 2000 –
    The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39

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