About January 12
January 12, 2024 is the 12th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 29 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 12
- 1528 –Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
- 1808 –The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
- 1848 –The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- 1866 –The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
- 1875 –Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
- 1898 –Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
- 1906 –Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
- 1908 –A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
- 1911 –The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
- 1915 –The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
- 1918 –Finland’s “Mosaic Confessors” law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
- 1926 –Original Sam ‘n’Henry aired on Chicago radio later renamed Amos ‘n’Andy in 1928.
- 1932 –Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
- 1942 –World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
- 1970 –Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
- 1986 –Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61C as a Mission Specialist.
- 1991 –Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
- 2001 –Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
- 2006 –The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
- 2007 –Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
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