October 12

October 12 is the 285th day of the year (286th in Leap years). There are 80
days remaining.

Events:

   * 1492 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the
     Caribbean
   * 1810 - First Oktoberfest, in celebration of the marriage of Crown
     Prince Louis of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen
   * 1847 - Siemens AG & Halske founded
   * 1859 - Emperor Norton I of the United States orders that country's
     congress dissolved.
   * 1860 - British and French capture Peking, China
   * 1933 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison
   * 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at the United
     Nations to protest discussion of Soviet Union policy towards Eastern
     Europe
   * 1968 - 1968 Summer Olympics open in Mexico City, Mexico
   * 1976 - Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Chinese
     Communist Party
   * 1998 - United States Congress passes Digital Millennium Copyright Act
   * 1999 - Military coup in Pakistan
   * 2000 - USS Cole (DDG 67) badly damaged by an attack in Aden, Yemen
   * 2002 - Bali: Terrorists detonate massive bomb in two nightclubs in
     Kuta, killing 190

Births:

   * 1537 - King Edward VI of England
   * 1860 - Elmer Sperry, inventor
   * 1866 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (+ 1937)
   * 1875 - Aleister Crowley, occultist, author (+ 1947)
   * 1906 - Joe Cronin, Baseball Hall of Famer
   * 1912 - Alice Childress, novelist (+ 1994)
   * 1918 - P.S. Ramakrishna Rao, film director (+ 1986)
   * 1923 - Jean Nidetch, founder of Weight Watchers
   * 1932 - Dick Gregory, comedian, activist
   * 1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer
   * 1935 - Joan Rivers, comedienne, television host
   * 1968 - Hugh Jackman, actor, singer
   * 1975 - Marion Jones, track and field star

Deaths:

   * 632 - Edwin, king of Northumbria and Bretwalda
   * 638 - Pope Honorius I
   * 642 - Pope John IV
   * 1870 - Robert E. Lee, United States Civil War general (Confederate)
   * 1915 - Edith Cavell, nurse
   * 1924 - Anatole France, author, Nobel Prize winner
   * 1940 - Tom Mix, actor
   * 1946 - General Joseph Stillwell
   * 1969 - Sonja Henie, figure skater
   * 1971 - Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of State
   * 1984 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician, along with three of the
     other victims of the Brighton bombing
   * 1993 - Leon Ames, actor
   * 1997 - John Denver, singer
   * 1998 - Matthew Shepard, gay college student and gay-bashing victim
   * 1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, basketball player
   * 2001 - Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician
   * 2002 - Ray Conniff, band leader, musician

Holidays:

   * National day of Spain.
   * Columbus Day (traditionally) - United States
   * El Dia de la Raza - Latin America

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