About October 12
October 12, 2025 is the 285th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 128 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 12
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1692 –The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
- 1810 –First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
- 1892 –The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage.
- 1901 –President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the White House.
- 1915 –World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
- 1917 –World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
- 1928 –An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston
- 1933 –The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice
- 1945 –World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
- 1960 –Inejiro Asanuma, Chair of the Japanese Socialist Party, is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The cameras were rolling at the time, so the moment was caught on film.
- 1962 –Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages
- 1964 –The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits
- 1967 –Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam’s opposition
- 1970 –Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
- 1979 –The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
- 1986 –Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People’s Republic of China
- 1988 –Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
- 1999 –Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
- 2005 –The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
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