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
- 467 –Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1204 –The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
- 1557 –Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.
- 1633 –The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.
- 1820 –Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
- 1877 –The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
- 1934 –The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
- 1945 –U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
- 1961 –The Russian (Soviet) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
- 1970 –Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
- 1980 –Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.
- 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.
- 1999 –US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving “intentionally false statements” in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
- 2002 –A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
- 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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