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Tuesday, January 12, 2027
Tuesday, January 12, 2027 falls on a Tuesday. It is day 12 of the year, ISO week 2, in Q1.
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Tuesday, January 12
January 12, 2027 is day 12 of 365, ISO week 2, in Q1. The moon is Waxing Crescent and the zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Day of year12
ISO week2
QuarterQ1
Days left353
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- Waxing Crescent
- Lunar age
- 4.5 days
- Illumination
- 21%
- Season
- Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, summer in the Southern Hemisphere
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- Capricorn
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- No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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- /date/2027-01-12
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January 12
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January 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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National Youth Day (India)
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Local briefTuesday, January 12, 2027 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2010: Iranian physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was assassinated while leaving his home for the University of Tehran, where he was a professor.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to January 12.
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Iranian physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was assassinated while leaving his home for the University of Tehran, where he was a professor.
An earthquake registering 7.0 Mw struck Haiti, killing more than 100,000 people.
Comet McNaught (pictured) reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet in over 40 years, with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.
Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah was overthrown by rebels led by John Okello, ending 200 years of Arab dominance in Zanzibar.
An underground explosion at a coal mine in Staffordshire, England, killed 155 men and boys.
Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann became the first German aviators to be awarded the Pour le Mérite, Germany's highest military honour.
During a storm, the crew of Lynmouth Lifeboat Station transported their 10-ton lifeboat 15 mi (24 km) overland in order to rescue a damaged schooner.
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