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Day Of The Week: April 12
April 12, 2025 is the 102nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aries is your zodiac sign. Diamond is your modern birthstone. Opal is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: April 12
- 1204 –The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
- 1877 –The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
- 1927 –April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
- 1935 –First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
- 1963 –The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
- 1968 –Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
- 1990 –Jim Gary’s “Twentieth Century Dinosaurs” exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
- 1998 –An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
- 1999 –US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving “intentionally false statements” in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
- 2007 –A suicide bomber penetrated the Green Zone and detonated in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
Who were born on April 12?
- 1500 –Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (d. 1574)
- 1722 –Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (d. 1793)
- 1792 –John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Governor General of British North America (d. 1840)
- 1799 –Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855)
- 1868 –Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander (d. 1918)
- 1892 –Johnny Dodds, American musician (d. 1940)
- 1908 –Ida Crowe Pollock, English writer
- 1944 –John Kay, German-born musician
- 1945 –Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the WHO (d. 2006)
- 1961 –Magda Szubanski, Australian actress
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