About October 12
October 12, 2022 is the 285th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 102 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 12
- 1216 –King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge
- 1398 –The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1654 –The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
- 1773 –America‘s first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’in Virginia
- 1810 –First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
- 1892 –The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage.
- 1928 –An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston
- 1944 –World War II: The Liberation of Athens from the German invaders.
- 1960 –Inejiro Asanuma, Chair of the Japanese Socialist Party, is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The cameras were rolling at the time, so the moment was caught on film.
- 1967 –Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam’s opposition
- 1968 –Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain
- 1984 –Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
- 1988 –Jaffna University Helidrop: Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap.
- 1988 –Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
- 1991 –Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by republic’s Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.
- 1999 –Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
- 1999 –The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
- 2000 –The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39
- 2005 –The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
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