About December 12
December 12, 2024 is the 347th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 19 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 48 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 12
- 1408 –The Order of the Dragon a monarchical chivalric order is created by Sigismund of Luxembourg, then King of Hungary.
- 1781 –American Revolutionary War: Second Battle of Ushant – A Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt on HMS Victory, defeats a French fleet.
- 1787 –Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution five days after Delaware became the first.
- 1870 –Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman, the first one being Hiram Revels.
- 1897 –Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded.
- 1915 –President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai, announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China.
- 1917 –In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
- 1918 –Flag of Estonia is raised atop the Pikk Hermann for the first time.
- 1925 –The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia.
- 1935 –Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
- 1942 –A fire in a hostel in St. John’s, Newfoundland, kills 100 people.
- 1942 –World War II: German troops begin Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
- 1946 –A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement killing 37 people.
- 1956 –Beginning of the Irish Republican Army’s “Border Campaign”.
- 1958 –Guinea joins the United Nations.
- 1963 –Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1969 –Strategy of tension: Piazza Fontana bombing – The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
- 1982 –Women’s peace protest at Greenham Common – 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km perimeter fence.
- 1984 –Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya becomes the third president of Mauritania after a coup d'état against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla while the latter is attending a summit.
- 1985 –Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256, including 236 members of the United States Army’s 101st Airborne Division.
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