About February 12
February 12, 2024 is the 43rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 323 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 352 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 12
- 1429 –English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
- 1502 –Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
- 1733 –Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
- 1817 –An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
- 1818 –Bernardo O'Higgins formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
- 1832 –Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
- 1855 –Michigan State University is established.
- 1934 –In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Española.
- 1934 –The Austrian Civil War begins.
- 1935 –USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
- 1946 –African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles’ film Touch of Evil.
- 1946 –World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
- 1961 –U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
- 1974 –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
- 1994 –Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch’s iconic painting The Scream.
- 1999 –President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
- 2002 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 2002 –The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
- 2004 –The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
- 2009 –Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
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