October 12 All Events |
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| October 12th, 2007 (October 12 2007) | Event | In Santa Clarita, California, the colision of two semi-trucks in a truck bypass tunnel in the Newhall Pass section of Interstate 5 sets off a chain reaction crash involving over 30 vehicles. The crash causes a major fire within the tunnel. Three people die and ten are injured. | |
| October 12th, 2007 (October 12 2007) | Death | Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (born in 1934) | |
| October 12th, 2006 (October 12 2006) | Death | Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (born in 1919) | |
| October 12th, 2005 (October 12 2005) | Event | The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng for five days in orbit. | |
| October 12th, 2005 (October 12 2005) | Death | C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (born in 1927) | |
| October 12th, 2003 (October 12 2003) | Death | Jim Cairns, Australian politician (born in 1914) | |
| October 12th, 2003 (October 12 2003) | Death | Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (born in 1928) | |
| October 12th, 2003 (October 12 2003) | Death | Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (born in 1931) | |
| October 12th, 2002 (October 12 2002) | Event | Terrorists detonate bombs in Paddy s Pub and the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300. | |
| October 12th, 2002 (October 12 2002) | Death | Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (born in 1916) | |
| October 12th, 2002 (October 12 2002) | Death | Audrey Mestre, French diver (born in 1974) | |
| October 12th, 2001 (October 12 2001) | Death | Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (born in 1907) | |
| October 12th, 2000 (October 12 2000) | Event | The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39 | |
| October 12th, 1999 (October 12 1999) | Event | Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup. | |
| October 12th, 1999 (October 12 1999) | Event | The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born. | |
| October 12th, 1999 (October 12 1999) | Death | Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (born in 1936) | |
| October 12th, 1999 (October 12 1999) | Death | Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner (born in 1919) | |
| October 12th, 1998 (October 12 1998) | Death | Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (born in 1976) | |
| October 12th, 1998 (October 12 1998) | Death | Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (born in 1930) | |
| October 12th, 1997 (October 12 1997) | Event | Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock. | |
| October 12th, 1997 (October 12 1997) | Birth | Prince Boris of Bulgaria | |
| October 12th, 1997 (October 12 1997) | Death | John Denver, American singer (born in 1943) | |
| October 12th, 1996 (October 12 1996) | Death | Roger Lapebie, French cyclist (born in 1911) | |
| October 12th, 1996 (October 12 1996) | Death | Rene Lacoste, French tennis player (born in 1904) | |
| October 12th, 1994 (October 12 1994) | Event | 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 either October 13 or October 14). | |
| October 12th, 1994 (October 12 1994) | Death | Gerald Godin, Quebecois poet and politician (born in 1938) | |
| October 12th, 1993 (October 12 1993) | Death | Leon Ames, American actor (born in 1902) | |
| October 12th, 1993 (October 12 1993) | Death | Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (born in 1926) | |
| October 12th, 1992 (October 12 1992) | Birth | Taylor Horn, American singer and actress | Taylor Horn Quotes |
| October 12th, 1992 (October 12 1992) | Birth | Josh Hutcherson, American actor | |
| October 12th, 1991 (October 12 1991) | Event | Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by republic s Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll. | |
| October 12th, 1991 (October 12 1991) | Death | Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist (born in 1925) | |
| October 12th, 1990 (October 12 1990) | Birth | Henri Lansbury, English footballer | |
| October 12th, 1989 (October 12 1989) | Death | Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.) (born in 1920) | |
| October 12th, 1988 (October 12 1988) | Event | Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia. | |
| October 12th, 1988 (October 12 1988) | Death | Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children s books (born in 1895) | |
| October 12th, 1987 (October 12 1987) | Death | Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas (born in 1887) | |
| October 12th, 1986 (October 12 1986) | Event | Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People s Republic of China | Duke of Edinburgh Philip Quotes |
| October 12th, 1986 (October 12 1986) | Birth | Marcus T. Paulk, American actor | |
| October 12th, 1986 (October 12 1986) | Birth | Sergio Peter, German footballer | |
| October 12th, 1985 (October 12 1985) | Birth | Mike Green, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| October 12th, 1985 (October 12 1985) | Death | Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (born in 1910) | |
| October 12th, 1985 (October 12 1985) | Death | Ricky Wilson, American musician; member of The B-52 s (born in 1953) | |
| October 12th, 1984 (October 12 1984) | Event | Brighton hotel bombing: Margaret Thatcher survives an IRA bomb, which shredded her bathroom barely two minutes after she had left it. | Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| October 12th, 1984 (October 12 1984) | Death | Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (born in 1925) | |
| October 12th, 1983 (October 12 1983) | Event | 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. | |
| October 12th, 1983 (October 12 1983) | Birth | Alex Brosque, Australian footballer | |
| October 12th, 1983 (October 12 1983) | Death | The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager | |
| October 12th, 1982 (October 12 1982) | Birth | Molly Bennett, Irish singer | |
| October 12th, 1981 (October 12 1981) | Birth | Shola Ameobi, English footballer | |
| October 12th, 1981 (October 12 1981) | Birth | Tom Guiry, American actor | |
| October 12th, 1981 (October 12 1981) | Birth | Brian Kerr, Scottish international footballer | |
| October 12th, 1981 (October 12 1981) | Birth | Sneha, Indian actress | |
| October 12th, 1979 (October 12 1979) | Event | The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip. | |
| October 12th, 1979 (October 12 1979) | Birth | Jordan Pundik, American singer (New Found Glory) | |
| October 12th, 1978 (October 12 1978) | Birth | Baden Cooke, Australian cyclist | |
| October 12th, 1978 (October 12 1978) | Death | Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (born in 1958) | |
| October 12th, 1977 (October 12 1977) | Birth | Jessica Barker, Canadian actress | |
| October 12th, 1977 (October 12 1977) | Birth | Bode Miller, American alpine ski-racer | Bode Miller Quotes |
| October 12th, 1977 (October 12 1977) | Birth | Javier Toyo, Venezuelan footballer | |
| October 12th, 1976 (October 12 1976) | Event | The People s Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to the late Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party of China. | Mao Zedong Quotes |
| October 12th, 1976 (October 12 1976) | Birth | Sarah Lane, American television personality | |
| October 12th, 1975 (October 12 1975) | Birth | Marion Jones, American track and field athlete | |
| October 12th, 1974 (October 12 1974) | Birth | Stephen Lee, English snooker player | |
| October 12th, 1974 (October 12 1974) | Birth | Marie Wilson, Canadian actress | |
| October 12th, 1973 (October 12 1973) | Birth | Lesli Brea, Dominican baseball player | |
| October 12th, 1973 (October 12 1973) | Birth | Rodney Mack, professional wrestler | |
| October 12th, 1972 (October 12 1972) | Event | En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial brawl involving more than 100 sailors breaks out aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk | |
| October 12th, 1972 (October 12 1972) | Birth | Irina Pantaeva, Russian supermodel and actress | |
| October 12th, 1972 (October 12 1972) | Birth | Juan Manuel Silva, Argentine racing driver | |
| October 12th, 1972 (October 12 1972) | Birth | Tom Van Mol, Belgian football player | |
| October 12th, 1971 (October 12 1971) | Birth | Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor, composer and singer | |
| October 12th, 1971 (October 12 1971) | Birth | Tony Fiore, American baseball player | |
| October 12th, 1971 (October 12 1971) | Death | Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (born in 1893) | |
| October 12th, 1971 (October 12 1971) | Death | Gene Vincent, pioneering American rock n roll musician (born in 1935) | |
| October 12th, 1970 (October 12 1970) | Event | Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas | |
| October 12th, 1970 (October 12 1970) | Birth | Kirk Cameron, American actor | |
| October 12th, 1970 (October 12 1970) | Birth | Tanyon Sturtze, American baseball player | |
| October 12th, 1970 (October 12 1970) | Birth | Charlie Ward, American pro basketball player | |
| October 12th, 1970 (October 12 1970) | Birth | Julian, American pornographic actor | Julian Quotes |
| October 12th, 1970 (October 12 1970) | Death | Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (born in 1930) | |
| October 12th, 1969 (October 12 1969) | Birth | Martie Maguire, American musician (Dixie Chicks) | |
| October 12th, 1969 (October 12 1969) | Birth | Dwayne Roloson, Canadian hockey player | |
| October 12th, 1969 (October 12 1969) | Birth | Jose Valentin, American baseball player | |
| October 12th, 1969 (October 12 1969) | Death | Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (born in 1912) | |
| October 12th, 1968 (October 12 1968) | Event | Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain | |
| October 12th, 1968 (October 12 1968) | Birth | Bill Auberlen, American race car driver | |
| October 12th, 1968 (October 12 1968) | Birth | Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer | |
| October 12th, 1968 (October 12 1968) | Birth | Adam Rich, American actor | |
| October 12th, 1967 (October 12 1967) | Event | Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives were futile because of North Vietnam s opposition | |
| October 12th, 1967 (October 12 1967) | Death | Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader | |
| October 12th, 1966 (October 12 1966) | Birth | Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor | |
| October 12th, 1966 (October 12 1966) | Birth | Wim Jonk, Dutch football player | |
| October 12th, 1966 (October 12 1966) | Birth | Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish musician and author | |
| October 12th, 1965 (October 12 1965) | Birth | Jean-Jacques Daigneault, Canadian hockey player | |
| October 12th, 1965 (October 12 1965) | Birth | Scott O Grady, American military officer | |
| October 12th, 1965 (October 12 1965) | Death | Paul Hermann Muller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1899) | |
| October 12th, 1964 (October 12 1964) | Event | 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 | |
| October 12th, 1963 (October 12 1963) | Birth | Lane Frost, American professional bull rider, (died in 1989) | |
| October 12th, 1963 (October 12 1963) | Birth | Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director | |
| October 12th, 1963 (October 12 1963) | Birth | Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer | |
| October 12th, 1963 (October 12 1963) | Birth | Luis Polonia, Dominican baseball player | |
| October 12th, 1962 (October 12 1962) | Event | 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 | |
| October 12th, 1962 (October 12 1962) | Birth | Carlos Bernard, American actor | |
| October 12th, 1962 (October 12 1962) | Birth | Chris Botti, American jazz musician | |
| October 12th, 1962 (October 12 1962) | Birth | Branko Crvenkovski, Macedonian President | |
| October 12th, 1962 (October 12 1962) | Birth | Deborah Foreman, American actress | |
| October 12th, 1960 (October 12 1960) | Event | Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonialist policy being conducted in Eastern Europe | Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
| October 12th, 1960 (October 12 1960) | Event | Inejiro Asanuma is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-oldied in The camera was rolling at that time. | |
| October 12th, 1960 (October 12 1960) | Death | Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (born in 1898) | |
| October 12th, 1959 (October 12 1959) | Event | At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde. | |
| October 12th, 1959 (October 12 1959) | Birth | Anna Escobedo Cabral, 42nd Treasurer of the United States | |
| October 12th, 1958 (October 12 1958) | Death | Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (born in 1907) | |
| October 12th, 1957 (October 12 1957) | Birth | Kristen Bjorn, British film director | |
| October 12th, 1956 (October 12 1956) | Birth | David Vanian, British singer, (The Damned) | |
| October 12th, 1956 (October 12 1956) | Death | Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (born in 1872) | |
| October 12th, 1955 (October 12 1955) | Birth | Ante Gotovina, Croatian general | |
| October 12th, 1955 (October 12 1955) | Birth | Jane Siberry, Canadian musician | |
| October 12th, 1954 (October 12 1954) | Death | George Welch, American pilot (born in 1918) | |
| October 12th, 1953 (October 12 1953) | Event | "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York | Martial Quotes |
| October 12th, 1953 (October 12 1953) | Birth | Les Dennis, British comedian/TV presenter | |
| October 12th, 1953 (October 12 1953) | Birth | Serge Lepeltier, French politician | |
| October 12th, 1952 (October 12 1952) | Birth | Danielle Proulx, Quebec actress | |
| October 12th, 1951 (October 12 1951) | Birth | Sally Ride, American astronaut | |
| October 12th, 1951 (October 12 1951) | Birth | Ed Royce, American politician | |
| October 12th, 1950 (October 12 1950) | Birth | Susan Anton, American actress | |
| October 12th, 1950 (October 12 1950) | Birth | Robin Askwith, English actor | |
| October 12th, 1950 (October 12 1950) | Birth | Caroline Ellis, English actress | |
| October 12th, 1950 (October 12 1950) | Birth | Dave Freudenthal, American politician | |
| October 12th, 1950 (October 12 1950) | Birth | Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor | |
| October 12th, 1949 (October 12 1949) | Birth | Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Venezuelan international terrorist | |
| October 12th, 1949 (October 12 1949) | Birth | Stan Hansen, American professional wrestler | |
| October 12th, 1948 (October 12 1948) | Birth | Rick Parfitt, British musician (Status Quo) | |
| October 12th, 1948 (October 12 1948) | Death | Susan Sutherland Isaacs, educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (born in 1885). | |
| October 12th, 1947 (October 12 1947) | Birth | Chris Wallace, American journalist | |
| October 12th, 1947 (October 12 1947) | Birth | George Lam, Hong Kong singer | |
| October 12th, 1946 (October 12 1946) | Death | Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (born in 1883) | |
| October 12th, 1945 (October 12 1945) | Birth | Aurore Clement, French actress | |
| October 12th, 1945 (October 12 1945) | Birth | Dusty Rhodes, American professional wrestler | |
| October 12th, 1944 (October 12 1944) | Birth | Angela Rippon, British television personality | |
| October 12th, 1942 (October 12 1942) | Event | World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Goto dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack. | |
| October 12th, 1942 (October 12 1942) | Birth | Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (died in 1995) | |
| October 12th, 1941 (October 12 1941) | Event | This and the next day, German Nazis kill 11,000 Jews in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Einsatzkommando 6 massacres most of the remaining Jews of the city, marching them to a ravine where they were killed. | |
| October 12th, 1941 (October 12 1941) | Birth | Michael Mansfield, English barrister | |
| October 12th, 1940 (October 12 1940) | Death | Tom Mix, American actor (born in 1880) | |
| October 12th, 1938 (October 12 1938) | Birth | Bob Miller, American NHL broadcaster | |
| October 12th, 1937 (October 12 1937) | Birth | Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (died in 1969) | |
| October 12th, 1937 (October 12 1937) | Birth | Robert Mangold, American artist | |
| October 12th, 1935 (October 12 1935) | Birth | Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (died in 2007) | |
| October 12th, 1935 (October 12 1935) | Birth | Sam Moore, American R&B singer (Sam & Dave) | |
| October 12th, 1935 (October 12 1935) | Birth | Don Howe, English football player and manager | |
| October 12th, 1934 (October 12 1934) | Birth | Richard Meier, American architect | |
| October 12th, 1934 (October 12 1934) | Birth | Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician | |
| October 12th, 1933 (October 12 1933) | Event | The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice | |
| October 12th, 1933 (October 12 1933) | Birth | Guido Molinari, Canadian painter (died in 2004) | |
| October 12th, 1932 (October 12 1932) | Birth | Dick Gregory, American comedian and activist | |
| October 12th, 1932 (October 12 1932) | Birth | Ned Jarrett, American race car driver | |
| October 12th, 1929 (October 12 1929) | Birth | Robert Coles, American psychologist and author | |
| October 12th, 1929 (October 12 1929) | Birth | Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic television presenter (died in 2007) | |
| October 12th, 1928 (October 12 1928) | Event | An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children s Hospital, Boston | |
| October 12th, 1925 (October 12 1925) | Birth | Denis Lazure, Quebec politician | |
| October 12th, 1924 (October 12 1924) | Birth | Doris Grau, American actress (died in 1995) | |
| October 12th, 1924 (October 12 1924) | Death | Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1844) | Anatole France Quotes |
| October 12th, 1923 (October 12 1923) | Birth | Goody Petronelli, American boxing trainer and manager | |
| October 12th, 1920 (October 12 1920) | Birth | Christy Ring, Irish hurler (died in 1979) | |
| October 12th, 1919 (October 12 1919) | Birth | Gilles Beaudoin, Quebec politician (died in 2007) | |
| October 12th, 1918 (October 12 1918) | Event | A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota. | |
| October 12th, 1917 (October 12 1917) | Event | The First Battle of Passchendaele, now Passendale | |
| October 12th, 1917 (October 12 1917) | Birth | Roque Maspoli, Uruguayan footballer (died in 2004) | |
| October 12th, 1916 (October 12 1916) | Birth | Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and novelist (died in 1994) | |
| October 12th, 1915 (October 12 1915) | Event | World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium | Edith Cavell Quotes |
| October 12th, 1915 (October 12 1915) | Death | Edith Cavell, English nurse (born in 1865) | Edith Cavell Quotes |
| October 12th, 1910 (October 12 1910) | Birth | Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (died in 1985) | |
| October 12th, 1910 (October 12 1910) | Birth | Bob Sheppard, American baseball announcer | |
| October 12th, 1908 (October 12 1908) | Birth | Paul Engle, American writer (died in 1991) | |
| October 12th, 1908 (October 12 1908) | Birth | Ann Petry, American novelist (died in 1997) | |
| October 12th, 1906 (October 12 1906) | Birth | Joe Cronin, American baseball player and executive (died in 1984) | |
| October 12th, 1904 (October 12 1904) | Birth | Ding Ling, Chinese writer (died in 1986) | |
| October 12th, 1904 (October 12 1904) | Birth | Lester Dent, American writer (died in 1959) | |
| October 12th, 1901 (October 12 1901) | Event | President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House. | Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| October 12th, 1899 (October 12 1899) | Event | Boer republic of South Africa declares war with England. | |
| October 12th, 1898 (October 12 1898) | Event | Establishment of the first town council in Mateur. | |
| October 12th, 1898 (October 12 1898) | Death | Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (born in 1816) | |
| October 12th, 1896 (October 12 1896) | Birth | Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1981) | |
| October 12th, 1896 (October 12 1896) | Death | Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (born in 1817) | |
| October 12th, 1894 (October 12 1894) | Birth | Elisabeth of Romania, queen of Greece (died in 1956) | |
| October 12th, 1892 (October 12 1892) | Event | The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited in unison by students in US public schools. | |
| October 12th, 1892 (October 12 1892) | Birth | Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (died in 1975) | |
| October 12th, 1891 (October 12 1891) | Birth | Edith Stein, Carmelite Catholic nun and martyr (died in 1942) | |
| October 12th, 1890 (October 12 1890) | Birth | Michael Collins, Irish leader (died in 1922) | Michael Collins Quotes |
| October 12th, 1887 (October 12 1887) | Birth | Paula von Preradovic, Croatian-Austrian poet (died in 1951) | |
| October 12th, 1880 (October 12 1880) | Birth | Louis Hemon, French novelist (died in 1913) | |
| October 12th, 1875 (October 12 1875) | Birth | Aleister Crowley, English occultist and author (died in 1947) | Aleister Crowley Quotes |
| October 12th, 1875 (October 12 1875) | Death | Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (born in 1827) | |
| October 12th, 1874 (October 12 1874) | Birth | Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (died in 1942) | |
| October 12th, 1872 (October 12 1872) | Birth | Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (died in 1958) | Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes |
| October 12th, 1870 (October 12 1870) | Death | Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (born in 1807) | |
| October 12th, 1866 (October 12 1866) | Birth | Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died in 1937) | |
| October 12th, 1865 (October 12 1865) | Birth | Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1940) | |
| October 12th, 1860 (October 12 1860) | Birth | Elmer Sperry, American inventor (died in 1930) | |
| October 12th, 1855 (October 12 1855) | Birth | Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (died in 1922) | |
| October 12th, 1845 (October 12 1845) | Death | Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (born in 1780) | |
| October 12th, 1840 (October 12 1840) | Birth | Helena Modjeska, Polish actress (died in 1909) | |
| October 12th, 1823 (October 12 1823) | Event | Charles Macintosh, of Scotland, sells the first raincoat. | |
| October 12th, 1822 (October 12 1822) | Event | Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazilian Empire. | |
| October 12th, 1810 (October 12 1810) | Event | 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. | |
| October 12th, 1801 (October 12 1801) | Birth | Friedrich Frey-Herose, Swiss statesman (died in 1873) | |
| October 12th, 1798 (October 12 1798) | Birth | Pedro I of Brazil (died in 1834) | |
| October 12th, 1793 (October 12 1793) | Event | 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 | |
| October 12th, 1792 (October 12 1792) | Event | First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York | |
| October 12th, 1792 (October 12 1792) | Birth | Christian Gmelin, German chemist (died in 1860) | |
| October 12th, 1773 (October 12 1773) | Event | America s first insane asylum opens for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds in Virginia | |
| October 12th, 1758 (October 12 1758) | Death | Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (born in 1680) | |
| October 12th, 1730 (October 12 1730) | Death | King Frederick IV of Denmark (born in 1671) | |
| October 12th, 1725 (October 12 1725) | Birth | Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (died in 1810) | |
| October 12th, 1712 (October 12 1712) | Birth | William Shippen, American physician and statesman (died in 1801) | |
| October 12th, 1710 (October 12 1710) | Birth | Jonathan Trumbull, American politician and statesman (died in 1785) | |
| October 12th, 1692 (October 12 1692) | Event | The Salem Witch Trials were ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips. | |
| October 12th, 1685 (October 12 1685) | Death | Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (born in 1628) | |
| October 12th, 1679 (October 12 1679) | Death | William Gurnall, English writer (born in 1617) | |
| October 12th, 1678 (October 12 1678) | Death | Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (born in 1621) | |
| October 12th, 1654 (October 12 1654) | Event | The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100. | |
| October 12th, 1646 (October 12 1646) | Death | Francois de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (born in 1579) | |
| October 12th, 1632 (October 12 1632) | Death | Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (born in 1549) | |
| October 12th, 1602 (October 12 1602) | Birth | William Chillingworth, English religious leader (died in 1644) | |
| October 12th, 1600 (October 12 1600) | Death | Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (born in 1535) | |
| October 12th, 1590 (October 12 1590) | Death | Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (born in 1543) | |
| October 12th, 1582 (October 12 1582) | Event | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. | |
| October 12th, 1576 (October 12 1576) | Birth | Thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (died in 1653) | |
| October 12th, 1576 (October 12 1576) | Death | Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1527) | |
| October 12th, 1565 (October 12 1565) | Death | Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (born in 1520) | |
| October 12th, 1558 (October 12 1558) | Birth | Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (died in 1618) | |
| October 12th, 1558 (October 12 1558) | Birth | Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (died in 1651) | |
| October 12th, 1537 (October 12 1537) | Birth | King Edward VI of England (died in 1553) | |
| October 12th, 1492 (October 12 1492) | Event | Christopher Columbus s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached East Asia | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| October 12th, 1492 (October 12 1492) | Death | Piero della Francesca, Italian painter | |
| October 12th, 1491 (October 12 1491) | Death | Fritz Herlen, German artist | |
| October 12th, 1490 (October 12 1490) | Birth | Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (died in 1548) | |
| October 12th, 1398 (October 12 1398) | Event | the Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia. | |
| October 12th, 1350 (October 12 1350) | Birth | Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscovy (died in 1389) | |
| October 12th, 1320 (October 12 1320) | Death | Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor | |
| October 12th, 1279 (October 12 1279) | Event | Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon | |
| October 12th, 1216 (October 12 1216) | Event | King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge | |
| October 12th, 1176 (October 12 1176) | Death | William d Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician | |
| October 12th, 1095 (October 12 1095) | Death | Margrave Leopold II of Austria (born in 1050) | |
| October 12th, 1008 (October 12 1008) | Birth | Emperor Go-Ichijo of Japan (died in 1036) | |
| October 12th, 0642 (October 12 0642) | Death | Pope John IV | |
| October 12th, 0638 (October 12 0638) | Death | Pope Honorius I | |
| October 12th, 0632 (October 12 0632) | Death | Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda | |
| October 12th, 0539 (October 12 0539) | Event | The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. | |
