About February 12
February 12, 2025 is the 43rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 322 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 370 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 12
- 1429 –English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
- 1541 –Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
- 1689 –The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
- 1771 –Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
- 1816 –The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
- 1825 –The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
- 1832 –Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
- 1909 –The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
- 1946 –World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
- 1947 –A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
- 1968 –Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.
- 1974 –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
- 1990 –Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
- 1992 –The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
- 1994 –Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch’s iconic painting The Scream.
- 1999 –President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
- 2002 –The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
- 2004 –The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
- 2009 –Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
- 2021 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
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