About January 12
January 12, 2023 is the 12th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 353 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 10 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 12
- 475 –Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople.
- 1777 –Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
- 1808 –The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
- 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.
- 1895 –The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
- 1898 –Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
- 1915 –The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1976 –The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
- 1991 –Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
- 1998 –Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
- 2005 –Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.
- 2006 –A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
- 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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