About October 12
October 12, 2024 is the 286th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 109 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 12
- 1279 –Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon
- 1692 –The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
- 1792 –First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
- 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.
- 1823 –Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
- 1871 –Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
- 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.
- 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
- 1979 –The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
- 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.
- 1983 –Japan’s former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
- 1988 –Jaffna University Helidrop: Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap.
- 1988 –Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
- 1994 –NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere).
- 1999 –The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
- 1999 –The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia
- 2000 –The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39
- 2005 –The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
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