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Birthday October 12, 1537 Edward VI, king of England (1547-53) |
Birthday October 12, 1798 Pedro I, 1st emperor of Brazil (1822-31), king of Portugal |
Birthday October 12, 1860 Elmer Sperry, inventor of the gyrocompass |
Birthday October 12, 1866 Ramsay MacDonald, (Labour), British prime minister (1924, 1929-35) |
Birthday October 12, 1872 Ralph Vaughan Williams, in England, composer |
Birthday October 12, 1896 Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, translator (Xenia) (Nobel 1975) |
Birthday October 12, 1912 Actress, playwright, novelist Alice Childress is born |
Birthday October 12, 1923 Jean Nidetch in Brooklyn, founder of Weight Watchers |
Birthday October 12, 1928 Spankey McFarland, Actor |
Birthday October 12, 1932 Dick Gregory, comedian-activist |
Birthday October 12, 1932 Jake Garn, (R-Sen-Ut), astronaut (STS-51T) |
Birthday October 12, 1933 Joan Rivers |
Birthday October 12, 1935 Luciano Pavarotti, operatic tenor |
Birthday October 12, 1936 Tony Kubek, Yankee shortstop |
Birthday October 12, 1947 Chris Wallace, reporter |
Birthday October 12, 1950 Susan Anton, Actress-singer |
Birthday October 12, 1962 Sid Fernandez, Met Pitcher, Hawaii |
History October 12, 1492 Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day. |
History October 12, 1776 British troops head up East River |
History October 12, 1786 Thomas Jefferson composes romantic letter |
History October 12, 1810 The origin of Oktoberfest |
History October 12, 1860 British & French troops capture Peking. |
History October 12, 1870 Robert E. Lee dies |
History October 12, 1870 General Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington VA at age 63. |
History October 12, 1891 Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated. |
History October 12, 1915 British nurse Edith Cavell executed |
History October 12, 1915 British nurse executed in WWI |
History October 12, 1918 Fire rages in Minnesota |
History October 12, 1923 NY Giant's Casey Stengel Hr beats Yanks 1-0 in the World Series |
History October 12, 1929 Athletics score 10 in eighth inning of championship game |
History October 12, 1929 Cubs blow 8-0 world series lead A's score 10 in 1 inning |
History October 12, 1933 John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County OH jail. |
History October 12, 1933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially) |
History October 12, 1940 Silent-film star Tom Mix dies in Arizona car wreck; brained by Suitcase of Death |
History October 12, 1940 The Cowboy actor Tom Mix dies in an Arizona car accident |
History October 12, 1945 Conscientious objector wins Medal of Honor |
History October 12, 1946 Gen. Joseph Stilwell dies |
History October 12, 1948 Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager |
History October 12, 1949 Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US |
History October 12, 1957 1st coml flight between Cal & Antartica |
History October 12, 1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session. |
History October 12, 1960 Nikita Khrushchev throws a tantrum at the United Nations |
History October 12, 1962 US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology |
History October 12, 1963 Archaeological digs begin at Masada Israel |
History October 12, 1963 At 4 AM traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck |
History October 12, 1964 USSR leads the space race |
History October 12, 1964 USSR launches 1st 3-man crew into space |
History October 12, 1967 Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 world series |
History October 12, 1967 Dean Rusk criticizes Congress while fighting continues in South Vietnam |
History October 12, 1968 Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain. |
History October 12, 1969 Soyuz 7 is launched |
History October 12, 1970 Nixon announces another round of troop withdrawals |
History October 12, 1972 Racial violence breaks out aboard U.S. Navy ships |
History October 12, 1972 Mariner 9 took pictures of Martian north pole |
History October 12, 1972 Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot |
History October 12, 1973 Gerald Ford named as Spiro Agnew's successor to vice presidency |
History October 12, 1977 4th test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise |
History October 12, 1977 Throwaway Game Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers |
History October 12, 1985 Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize. |
History October 12, 1997 John Denver dies in an aircraft accident |
History October 12, 1998 The victim of an anti-gay assault dies |
History October 12, 2000 USS Cole attacked by terrorists |
History October 12, 2002 Terrorists kill 202 in Bali |
History October 12, 2007 Al Gore wins Nobel Prize in the wake of An Inconvenient Truth |