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What happend on 12. October in History
In our data base we found 364 events happened on 12. October:
• 1006: Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036) [category: Births]
• 1095: Leopold II, Margrave of Austria (b. 1050) [category: Deaths]
• 1113: The first documented mention under the Latin name Varadinum ("vár" means fortress in Hungarian) and the celebration day of the city Oradea while its bishopric was founded during the 11th century by King Ladislaus I of Hungary [category: Events]
• 1216: King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge. [category: Events]
• 1279: Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon. [category: Events]
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• 1320: Michael IX Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1277) [category: Deaths]
• 1350: Dmitry Donskoy, Russian prince (d. 1389) [category: Births]
• 1398: The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia. [category: Events]
• 1490: Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (d. 1548) [category: Births]
• 1491: Fritz Herlen, German painter (b. 1449) [category: Deaths]
• 1492: Piero della Francesca, Italian painter (b. 1415) [category: Deaths]
• 1492: Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached India. [category: Events]
• 1537: Edward VI of England (d. 1553) [category: Births]
• 1558: Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (d. 1651) [category: Births]
• 1558: Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria (d. 1618) [category: Births]
• 1565: Jean Ribault, French naval officer (b. 1520) [category: Deaths]
• 1576: Thomas Dudley, English-American politician (d. 1653) [category: Births]
• 1576: Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527) [category: Deaths]
• 1582: Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. [category: Events]
• 1590: Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543) [category: Deaths]
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• 1600: Luis de Molina, Spanish priest (b. 1535) [category: Deaths]
• 1602: William Chillingworth, English religious leader (d. 1644) [category: Births]
• 1632: Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese commander (b. 1549) [category: Deaths]
• 1646: François de Bassompierre, French courtier (b. 1579) [category: Deaths]
• 1654: The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people. [category: Events]
• 1678: Edmund Berry Godfrey, English judge (b. 1621) [category: Deaths]
• 1679: William Gurnall, English author and clergyman (b. 1617) [category: Deaths]
• 1685: Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628) [category: Deaths]
• 1687: Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (d. 1750) [category: Births]
• 1692: The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips. [category: Events]
• 1710: Jonathan Trumbull, American politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1785) [category: Births]
• 1725: Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810) [category: Births]
• 1730: Frederick IV of Denmark (b. 1671) [category: Deaths]
• 1748: British and Spanish naval forces engage at the Battle of Havana during the War of Jenkins' Ear. [category: Events]
• 1758: Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, Irish-English military officer and politician (b. 1680) [category: Deaths]
• 1773: America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia. [category: Events]
• 1792: Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860) [category: Births]
• 1792: First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York. [category: Events]
• 1793: The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina. [category: Events]
• 1798: Pedro I of Brazil (d. 1834) [category: Births]
• 1799: Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters. [category: Events]
• 1801: Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss politician (d. 1873) [category: Births]
• 1810: First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. [category: Events]
• 1812: Juan José Castelli, Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1764) [category: Deaths]
• 1815: William J. Hardee, American general (d. 1873) [category: Births]
• 1822: Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazil. [category: Events]
• 1823: Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat. [category: Events]
• 1826: Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles, French son of Paul, 6th duc de Noailles (d. 1895) [category: Births]
• 1840: Helena Modjeska, Polish actress (d. 1909) [category: Births]
• 1845: Elizabeth Fry, English social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780) [category: Deaths]
• 1855: Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1860: Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (d. 1930) [category: Births]
• 1865: Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1866: Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1870: Robert E. Lee, American general (b. 1807) [category: Deaths]
• 1871: Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India. [category: Events]
• 1872: Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1874: Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1875: Aleister Crowley, English magician and author (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1875: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827) [category: Deaths]
• 1878: Truxton Hare, American football player and hammer thrower (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1880: Louis Hémon, French author (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1887: Paula von Preradović, Croatian-Austrian poet (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1891: Edith Stein, German nun, philosopher, and saint (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1892: Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1892: The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage. [category: Events]
• 1893: Velvalee Dickinson, American spy (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1894: Elisabeth of Romania (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1896: Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1896: Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish politician, 9th Council President of Denmark (b. 1817) [category: Deaths]
• 1898: Calvin Fairbank, American minister (b. 1816) [category: Deaths]
• 1901: President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House. [category: Events]
• 1904: Ding Ling, Chinese author (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1904: Lester Dent, American author (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1906: Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1906: John Murray, American playwright (d.1984) [category: Births]
• 1908: Ann Petry, American author (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1908: Paul Engle, American poet and critic (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1910: Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and critic (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1913: Alice Chetwynd Ley, English author (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1915: Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1915: World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium [category: Events]
• 1916: Alice Childress, American actress and playwright (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1917: Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1917: World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history. [category: Events]
• 1918: A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota. [category: Events]
• 1919: Gilles Beaudoin, Canadian politician, 34th Mayor of Trois-Rivières (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1920: Christopher Soames, Baron Soames, English politician, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1920: Christy Ring, Irish hurler (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1920: Yu Gwan-sun, Korean independence leader (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1921: Art Clokey, American animator (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1921: Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-English tennis player (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1921: Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scottish rugby player and journalist [category: Births]
• 1923: Goody Petronelli, American boxing trainer and manager (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1924: Doris Grau, American actress (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1924: Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1924: Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Denis Lazure, Canadian politician (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1928: An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston [category: Events]
• 1929: Brian Cobby, English actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1929: Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-Scottish journalist (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1929: Nappy Brown, American singer-songwriter (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1929: Robert Coles, American psychologist and author [category: Births]
• 1930: Denis Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player and photographer [category: Births]
• 1930: Milica Kacin Wohinz, Slovenian historian [category: Births]
• 1931: Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist, co-developed Simula (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1932: Dick Gregory, American comedian, author, and activist [category: Births]
• 1932: Ned Jarrett, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1932: Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1933: Guido Molinari, Canadian painter (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1933: John Lister, English politician (b. 1847) [category: Deaths]
• 1933: The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice [category: Events]
• 1934: Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician [category: Births]
• 1934: James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1934: Richard Meier, American architect, designed the Getty Center and City Tower [category: Births]
• 1935: Don Howe, English footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1935: Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1935: Samuel David Moore, American singer-songwriter (Sam & Dave) [category: Births]
• 1935: Shivraj Patil, Indian politician [category: Births]
• 1935: Tony Kubek, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1937: Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1937: Robert Mangold, American painter [category: Births]
• 1938: Bob Miller, American sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1940: Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Frank Alamo, French singer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1941: Michael Mansfield, English lawyer [category: Births]
• 1942: Bunchy Carter, American activist (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1942: Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1942: Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1942: World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack. [category: Events]
• 1944: Angela Rippon, English journalist [category: Births]
• 1944: World War II: The Liberation of Athens from the German invaders. [category: Events]
• 1945: Aurore Clément, French actress [category: Births]
• 1945: Dusty Rhodes, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1945: World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor. [category: Events]
• 1946: Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Chris Wallace, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1947: George Lam, Hong Kong singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Hans Sprenger, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1948: Rick Parfitt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Status Quo) [category: Births]
• 1948: Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1949: Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan murderer [category: Births]
• 1949: Dave Lloyd, English cyclist [category: Births]
• 1949: Paul Went, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1949: Stan Hansen, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1950: Caroline Ellis, English actress [category: Births]
• 1950: Dave Freudenthal, American politician, 31st Governor of Wyoming [category: Births]
• 1950: Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1950: Robin Askwith, English actor [category: Births]
• 1950: Susan Anton, American actress [category: Births]
• 1951: Ed Royce, American politician [category: Births]
• 1951: Sally Little, South African-American golfer [category: Births]
• 1952: Béla Csécsei, Hungarian educator and politician (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1952: Danielle Proulx, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1953: Les Dennis, English comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1953: Serge Lepeltier, French politician [category: Births]
• 1953: The Caine Mutiny Court Martial opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York [category: Events]
• 1954: Linval Thompson, Jamaican singer and producer [category: Births]
• 1954: George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Aggie MacKenzie, Scottish television host [category: Births]
• 1955: Ante Gotovina, Croatian general [category: Births]
• 1955: Brigitte Lahaie, French talk show host and actress [category: Births]
• 1955: Einar Jan Aas, Norwegian footballer [category: Births]
• 1955: Jane Siberry, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and poet [category: Births]
• 1956: David Vanian, English singer-songwriter (The Damned) [category: Births]
• 1956: Emilio Charles, Jr., Mexican wrestler (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1956: Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Kristen Bjorn, English porn actor, director, and producer [category: Births]
• 1957: Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Bryn Merrick, Welsh bass player (The Damned) [category: Births]
• 1958: Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias, Portuguese historian, author, and academic (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1958: Steve Austria, American politician [category: Births]
• 1958: Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Anna Escobedo Cabral, American politician, 42nd Treasurer of the United States [category: Births]
• 1959: At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde. [category: Events]
• 1960: Carlo Perrone, Italian footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1960: Hiroyuki Sanada, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe [category: Events]
• 1960: Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed and killed during a live broadcast. [category: Events]
• 1962: Amanda Castro, Honduran poet [category: Births]
• 1962: Branko Crvenkovski, Macedonian politician, 3rd President of the Republic of Macedonia [category: Births]
• 1962: Carlos Bernard, American actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Chris Botti, American trumpet player and composer [category: Births]
• 1962: Deborah Foreman, American actress [category: Births]
• 1962: John Coleman, English footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1962: Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages [category: Events]
• 1963: Alan McDonald, Irish footballer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1963: Lane Frost, American bull rider (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1963: Luis Polonia, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1963: Raimond Aumann, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1963: Satoshi Kon, Japanese animator and screenwriter (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 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 space suits [category: Events]
• 1965: J. J. Daigneault, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1965: Scott O'Grady, American captain and pilot [category: Births]
• 1965: Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Brenda Brathwaite, American game designer and developer in the video game industry [category: Births]
• 1966: Brian Kennedy, Irish singer-songwriter and author [category: Births]
• 1966: Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Wim Jonk, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1967: Paul Laine Canadian singer-songwriter (Danger Danger) [category: Births]
• 1967: Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam's opposition [category: Events]
• 1968: Adam Rich, American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Bill Auberlen, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1968: Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and producer [category: Births]
• 1968: Paul Harragon, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1968: Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain [category: Events]
• 1969: Dwayne Roloson, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1969: José Valentín, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1969: Judit Mascó, Spanish model and actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Martie Maguire, American singer-songwriter, violinist, and producer (Dixie Chicks and Court Yard Hounds) [category: Births]
• 1969: Olaf Renn, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1969: Željko Milinovič, Slovenian footballer [category: Births]
• 1969: Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Charlie Ward, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1970: Julian, Chilean-American porn actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Kirk Cameron, American actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Tanyon Sturtze, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1970: Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas [category: Events]
• 1971: Steve Johnston, Australian motorcycle racer [category: Births]
• 1971: Tony Fiore, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Dean Acheson, American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Gene Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Juan Manuel Silva, Argentine race car driver [category: Births]
• 1972: Neriah Davis, American model and actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Tom Van Mol, Belgian footballer [category: Births]
• 1972: Robert Le Vigan, French actor (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Lesli Brea, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1973: Martin Corry, English rugby player [category: Births]
• 1973: Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Kate Beahan, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1974: Marie Wilson, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1974: Stephen Lee, English snooker player [category: Births]
• 1975: Ahmad, American rapper (4th Avenue Jones) [category: Births]
• 1975: Marion Jones, American basketball player and runner [category: Births]
• 1976: Sarah Lane, American television host [category: Births]
• 1977: Bode Miller, American skier [category: Births]
• 1977: Javier Toyo, Venezuelan footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Jessica Barker, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Baden Cooke, Australian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1978: Marko Jaric, Serbian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Stefan Binder, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Nancy Spungen, American murder victim, girlfriend of Sid Vicious (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Jordan Pundik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (New Found Glory and International Superheroes of Hardcore) [category: Births]
• 1979: Steven Agnew, Irish politician [category: Births]
• 1979: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published. [category: Events]
• 1979: The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip. [category: Events]
• 1980: Ledley King, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Brian J. Smith, American actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Brian Kerr, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Conrad Smith, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1981: Giuseppe Lanzone, American rower [category: Births]
• 1981: Janar Kiivramees, Estonian poker player [category: Births]
• 1981: Shola Ameobi, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Sneha, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Sun Tiantian, Chinese tennis player [category: Births]
• 1981: Tom Guiry, American actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Alex Brosque, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Carlton Cole, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Katie Piper, English model and television host [category: Births]
• 1983: Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail. [category: Events]
• 1984: Anthony Berry, English politician (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31. [category: Events]
• 1985: Mike Green, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1985: Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The B-52's) (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Emmanuel Nwachi, Nigerian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Ioannis Maniatis, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Sergio Peter, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Tyler Blackburn, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1986: Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China [category: Events]
• 1987: Marvin Ogunjimi, Belgian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Alf Landon, American politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Sam Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1988: Coby Whitmore, American painter and illustrator (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh poet and author (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Birchandra Manu massacre in Tripura, India [category: Events]
• 1988: Jaffna University Helidrop: Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap. [category: Events]
• 1988: Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia. [category: Events]
• 1989: Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Jay Ward, American animator and producer (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Henri Lansbury, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian mountaineer and author (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Egyptian politician (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Nicolao Dumitru, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Arkady Strugatsky, Russian author (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Regis Toomey, American actor (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Sheila Florance, Australian actress (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by republic's Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll. [category: Events]
• 1992: Cüneyt Köz, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Josh Hutcherson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1992: Kyron Duke, Welsh weightlifter [category: Births]
• 1992: Taylor Horn, American singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1992: 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died. [category: Events]
• 1993: Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Tofiq Bahramov, Soviet-Azerbaijani football referee (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Gérald Godin, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere). [category: Events]
• 1995: Jordan Howe, Welsh sprinter [category: Births]
• 1996: Riechedly Bazoer, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1996: René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: John Denver, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chad Mitchell Trio) (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock. [category: Events]
• 1998: Mario Beaulieu, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Robert Marsden Hope, Australian judge (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup. [category: Events]
• 1999: The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia [category: Events]
• 2000: The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39. [category: Events]
• 2001: Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English politician (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Ray Conniff, American bandleader and composer (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300. [category: Events]
• 2003: Bill Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: C. Delores Tucker, American politician and activist (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit. [category: Events]
• 2006: Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Noel Coleman, English actor (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Karl Chircop, Maltese politician (b. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Dickie Peterson American singer-songwriter and bass player (Blue Cheer) (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Belva Plain, American author (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Woody Peoples, American football player (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Heinz Bennent, German actor (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Patricia Breslin, American actress (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Břetislav Pojar, Czech animator and director (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ervin Kassai, Hungarian basketball referee (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: James Coyne, Canadian banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jean-Pierre Hautier, Belgian television host (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Norm Grabowski, American actor (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Sukhdev Singh Kang, Indian jurist and politician, 14th Governor of Kerala (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Tony Pawson, English cricketer (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Torkom Manoogian, Iraqi-Armenian archbishop (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: William C. Friday, American academic (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 539_bc: The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. [category: Events]
• 632: Edwin of Northumbria (b. 586) [category: Deaths]
• 638: Pope Honorius I [category: Deaths]
• 642: Pope John IV [category: Deaths]
• _: Children's Day or Feast of Our Lady of Aparecida (Brazil) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Descubrimiento de América (Mexico) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Discovery Day (the Bahamas) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Discovery of America by Columbus-related observances: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Día de la Hispanidad or Fiesta Nacional de España (Spain) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Día de la Raza, "Day of the Race" (Latin America) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Día de la Resistencia Indígena, "Day of Indigenous Resistance" (Venezuela) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Día de las Américas, "Day of the Americas" (Uruguay) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Día de las Culturas, "Day of the Cultures" (Costa Rica) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Freethought Day (United States) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Heribert of Cologne (private feast day) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Equatorial Guinea from Spain in 1968. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Mother's Day (Malawi) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: October 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: UN Spanish Language Day (United Nations) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Wilfrid of York [category: Holidays and observances]