Wednesday June 12, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

was the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There were until the end of the year. The day of the week was .

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, months, and days ago
  • months since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is a leap year

Historical Event(s)

1560
Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
The Central African Republic’s former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.

Who were born on ?

Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist (d. 1876)
Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
Hans Binder, Austrian racing driver
David Thornton, American actor
Jason Caffey, American basketball player
Richard Ayoade, English actor and writer
Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby union player

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