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What Happened on October 12th This Day in History

Year	Name
2019	Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.
2019	Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.
2019	The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20.
2018	Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
2017	The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.
2013	Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in Peru.
2012	The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
2010	The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.[14][15]
2005	The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.
2002	Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
2000	The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
1999	Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
1999	The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
1998	Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
1997	The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.
1996	New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First.
1994	The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
1992	A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
1988	Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
1984	The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
1983	Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail.
1979	Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded.
1977	Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao Zedong as paramount leader of China.
1973	President Nixon nominates House Majority Leader Gerald R. Ford as the successor to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
1971	The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire begins.
1970	Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
1968	Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
1967	A bomb explodes on board Cyprus Airways Flight 284 while flying over the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66.
1964	The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure suits.
1963	After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
1962	The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. There was at least U.S. $230 million in damages and 46 people died.
1960	Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.
1960	Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma is stabbed to death during a live television broadcast.
1959	At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
1945	World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
1945	The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence.
1944	World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
1933	The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
1928	An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital.
1918	A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
1917	World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
1915	World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium.
1901	President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
1892	The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
1890	Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
1871	The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".
1856	An M 7.7–8.3 earthquake off the Greek island of Crete cause major damage as far as Egypt and Malta.
1849	The city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by 'The Expedition of the 20'.
1822	Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.
1810	The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
1799	Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
1798	Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
1793	The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1792	The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
1773	America's first insane asylum opens.
1748	War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana.
1692	The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.
1654	The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
1492	Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically on San Salvador Island. (Julian calendar)
1406	Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four months before.
1398	In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights.
1279	The Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.
633	Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
539	The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar)

Famous People Born on October 12

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Year	Name
1981	Tom Guiry, American actor
1914	John E. Hodge, African-American chemist (d. 1996)
1958	Steve Austria, American lawyer and politician
1792	Christian Gmelin, German chemist and pharmacist (d. 1860)
1957	Mike Dowler, Welsh football goalkeeper
1976	Simon Bridges, New Zealand politician
1969	Dwayne Roloson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1968	Leon Lett, American football player
1904	Lester Dent, American journalist and author (d. 1959)
1962	Branko Crvenkovski, Macedonian engineer and politician, 3rd President of the Republic of Macedonia

Famous People Deaths On October 12

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Date	Name
1933	John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847)
1845	Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, Quaker and philanthropist (b. 1780)
1954	George Welch, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
1812	Juan José Castelli, Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1764)
1896	Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish lawyer and politician, 9th Council President of Denmark (b. 1817)
1858	Hiroshige, Japanese painter (b. 1797)
1924	Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
2014	Ali Mazrui, Kenyan-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1933)
1957	Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (b. 1865)
1685	Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian lawyer and jurist (b. 1628)