January 12th (2006) was a Thursday. It's the 11th day of the year (12th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 12th January, 2006
» Incidents during the Hajj e.g A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
» The French warship French aircraft carrier Clemenceau (R98) e.g Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
January 12th Famous Deaths for 2006
» Faisal bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahraini prince (b. 1991)
January 12th Holidays in History
» Christian Feast Day:
» Ailred of Rievaulx
» Benedict Biscop
» Saint Tatiana known as Tatiana
» January 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Earliest day on which Lee-Jackson Day can fall while January 18 is the latest, celebrated on the Friday before Martin Luther King Day. (Commonwealth of Virginia)
» Public holidays in Turkmenistan e.g Memorial Day (Turkmenistan)