About January 12

January 12, 2024 is the 12th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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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 29 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On January 12

  • 1528 –
    Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
  • 1773 –
    The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
  • 1808 –
    The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
  • 1872 –
    Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
  • 1875 –
    Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
  • 1895 –
    The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
  • 1906 –
    Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
  • 1915 –
    The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
  • 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.
  • 1926 –
    Original Sam ‘n’Henry aired on Chicago radio later renamed Amos ‘n’Andy in 1928.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
  • 1967 –
    Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
  • 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.
  • 1976 –
    The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
  • 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.
  • 2004 –
    The world’s largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
  • 2006 –
    The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
  • 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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