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October 12 is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 80 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 539 BC ...
Since 2000, October 12 has also been Spain's Day of the Armed Forces, celebrated each year with a military parade in Madrid. [99] The holiday is widely celebrated in Spain with official and cultural events throughout the country. Shops and businesses are closed as with other bank holidays.
12 October is an Open Doors Day in many museums and historical sites. [citation needed] For some years since 2010, Spanish Language Day was also celebrated on 12 October by the United Nations, but was later moved to 23 April to commemorate the anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes' death on that day.
The feast day of Our Lady Aparecida in the Roman Rite is on October 12, which is also a public holiday in Brazil since 1980. The building in which the image is venerated was granted the title of a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1980, and is the largest Marian shrine in the world, [ 3 ] being able to hold up to 45,000 worshippers.
The first Mass of the day, on October 12, is the Solemne Misa de Infantes, or Solemn Mass of Infants, celebrated in the Saint Chapel of the Basilica del Pilar, at 4.30 a.m. Despite the early hour, the Mass is extremely popular, and exceptionally well attended.
Day 2 of Amazon's 2024 October Prime Day sales event (formally called Prime Big Deal Days) is underway now, with brand new deals dropping throughout the day until the sale ends at midnight tonight ...
Pocahontas and Edward Norton. Shutterstock(2) Finding out his family history. Edward Norton appeared on the season 9 premiere of Finding Your Roots, where he learned that historical figure ...
Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hezbollah conflict. 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Israel's military orders the residents of 23 villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate to areas north of the Awali River.