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Monday, October 12, 2026
Monday, October 12, 2026 falls on a Monday. It is day 285 of the year, ISO week 42, in Q4.
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Monday, October 12
October 12, 2026 is day 285 of 365, ISO week 42, in Q4. The moon is New Moon and the zodiac sign is Libra.
Day of year285
ISO week42
QuarterQ4
Days left80
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- New Moon
- Lunar age
- 1.1 days
- Illumination
- 1%
- Season
- Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, spring in the Southern Hemisphere
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- Zodiac
- Libra
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- No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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- /date/2026-10-12
Today's Celebrations
October 12
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Blessed Louis Brisson
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Edith Cavell and Elizabeth Fry (Church of England)
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Fiacc
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Our Lady of the Pillar (Fiestas del Pilar)
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Our Lady of Aparecida
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Radim Gaudentius (Czech Republic)
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Seraphin of Montegranaro
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Wilfrid of Ripon
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Local briefMonday, October 12, 2026 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2013: Twelve people were killed in an apartment-building collapse in Medellín, leading to new construction laws being passed in Colombia.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to October 12.
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Twelve people were killed in an apartment-building collapse in Medellín, leading to new construction laws being passed in Colombia.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 or 5.9 struck south of Cairo, Egypt, killing 545 people.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in a failed attempt to assassinate British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.
Typhoon Tip, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, reached a worldwide record-low sea-level pressure of 870 mbar (25.69 inHg) in the western Pacific Ocean.
While in prison for murder, boxer James Scott defeated Eddie "The Flame" Gregory, a leading light heavyweight.
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly pounded his shoe on a desk during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong.
Japan Socialist Party leader Inejirō Asanuma (pictured) was assassinated during a live television recording by a far-right ultra-nationalist using a short sword.
Il Canto degli Italiani is adopted as national anthem by the newly formed Italian Republic.
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Tito Mboweni, South African politician (born 1959)
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Alvin Rakoff, Canadian film and television director (born 1927)
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