About December 12
December 12, 2021 is the 346th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 19 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 51 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 12
- 1408 –The Order of the Dragon a monarchical chivalric order is created by Sigismund of Luxembourg, then King of Hungary.
- 1862 –USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
- 1897 –Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded.
- 1911 –Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
- 1917 –In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
- 1925 –The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia.
- 1941 –Adolf Hitler announces extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery
- 1941 –World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.
- 1941 –World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. India declares war on Japan.
- 1942 –A fire in a hostel in St. John’s, Newfoundland, kills 100 people.
- 1948 –Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre – 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
- 1950 –Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services.
- 1956 –Beginning of the Irish Republican Army’s “Border Campaign”.
- 1963 –Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1964 –Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first President of the Republic of Kenya.
- 1979 –A major earthquake and tsunami kill 259 people in Colombia.
- 1979 –President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
- 1984 –Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya becomes the third president of Mauritania after a coup d'état against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla while the latter is attending a summit.
- 1988 –The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains – one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.
- 1991 –Russian Federation gains independence from the USSR.
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