About January 12
January 12, 2025 is the 12th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 353 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 17 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 12
- 1539 –Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
- 1848 –The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- 1866 –The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
- 1875 –Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
- 1898 –Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
- 1899 –13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued from the stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat when it floundered off the coast of Devon, England.
- 1915 –The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
- 1915 –The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
- 1918 –Finland’s “Mosaic Confessors” law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
- 1921 –Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball’s first commissioner.
- 1967 –Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
- 1970 –Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
- 1971 –The Harrisburg Seven: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
- 1986 –Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61C as a Mission Specialist.
- 1991 –Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
- 2001 –Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
- 2004 –The world’s largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
- 2005 –Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.
- 2007 –Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
- 2010 –The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing an estimated 316,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.
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