About February 12
February 12, 2024 is the 43rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 323 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 352 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 12
- 1502 –Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
- 1554 –A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
- 1689 –The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
- 1733 –Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
- 1816 –The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
- 1817 –An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
- 1832 –Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
- 1894 –Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris’s Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
- 1914 –In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
- 1934 –The Austrian Civil War begins.
- 1935 –USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
- 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.
- 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 –An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
- 2002 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
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