About October 12

October 12, 2021 is the 285th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

What Happened On October 12

  • 539 BC –
    The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
  • 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.
  • 1492 –
    Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached India
  • 1773 –
    America‘s first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’in Virginia
  • 1793 –
    The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina
  • 1823 –
    Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
  • 1871 –
    Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
  • 1901 –
    President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the White House.
  • 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.
  • 1953 –
    “The Caine Mutiny Court Martial” opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York
  • 1964 –
    The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits
  • 1983 –
    Japan’s former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
  • 1986 –
    Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People’s Republic of China
  • 1988 –
    Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
  • 1994 –
    NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere).
  • 1999 –
    The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia
  • 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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