About January 12
January 12, 2025 is the 12th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 353 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 17 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.
- 1539 –Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
- 1866 –The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
- 1872 –Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
- 1895 –The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1967 –Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
- 1971 –The Harrisburg Seven: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
- 1976 –The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
- 1986 –Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61C as a Mission Specialist.
- 1998 –Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
- 2004 –The world’s largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
- 2006 –A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
- 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.
- 2010 –The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing an estimated 316,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.
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