About February 12
February 12, 2020 is the 43rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 323 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 366 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 12
- 881 –Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor
- 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.
- 1689 –The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
- 1771 –Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
- 1816 –The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
- 1818 –Bernardo O'Higgins formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
- 1851 –Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush.
- 1855 –Michigan State University is established.
- 1909 –New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
- 1912 –The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
- 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.
- 1968 –Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.
- 1990 –Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
- 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.
- 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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