About December 12
December 12, 2025 is the 346th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 19 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 67 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 12
- 1098 –First Crusade: Massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan – Crusaders breach the town’s walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants. After finding themselves with insufficient food, they resort to cannibalism.
- 1408 –The Order of the Dragon a monarchical chivalric order is created by Sigismund of Luxembourg, then King of Hungary.
- 1787 –Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution five days after Delaware became the first.
- 1862 –USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
- 1870 –Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman, the first one being Hiram Revels.
- 1901 –Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John’s, Newfoundland.
- 1911 –Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
- 1911 –King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck are enthroned as Emperor and Empress of India.
- 1915 –President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai, announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China.
- 1917 –In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
- 1936 –Xi'an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek, is kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang.
- 1937 –USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink US gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze River in China.
- 1939 –HMS Duchess sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men.
- 1942 –A fire in a hostel in St. John’s, Newfoundland, kills 100 people.
- 1942 –World War II: German troops begin Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
- 1946 –A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement killing 37 people.
- 1956 –Beginning of the Irish Republican Army’s “Border Campaign”.
- 1958 –Guinea joins the United Nations.
- 1964 –Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first President of the Republic of Kenya.
- 2000 –The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.
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