October 12 in History
What happened on October 12 in history?
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on october 12 in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened on october 12 in history.
?>2002
Terrorist bombers kill over 200 and wound over 300 more at the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali.
2000
Suicide bombers at Aden, Yemen, damage USS Cole; 17 crew members are killed and over 35 are wounded.
1999
Chief of Army Staff Pervez Musharraf seizes power in Pakistan through a bloodless military coup.
1994
NASA loses contact with the Magellan probe spacecraft in the thick atmosphere of Venus.
1984
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonates at bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; 5 others are killed and 31 wounded.
1971
The House of Representatives passes the Equal Rights Amendment 354-23.
1970
President Richard Nixon announces the pullout of 40,000 more American troops in Vietnam by Christmas.
1964
1964 USSR launches Voskhod I, first spacecraft with multi-person crew; it is also the first mission in which the crew does not wear space suits.
1960
Inejiro Asanuma, leaders of the Japan Socialist Party, is assassinated during a live TV broadcast.
1949
Eugenie Anderson becomes the first woman U.S. ambassador.
1943
The U.S. Fifth Army begins an assault crossing of the Volturno River in Italy.
1933
Alcatraz Island is made a federal maximum security prison.
1915
Despite international protests, Edith Cavell, an English nurse in Belgium, is executed by Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners.
1899
The Anglo-Boer War begins.
1872
Apache leader Cochise signs a peace treaty with General Howard in Arizona Territory.
1809
Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies under mysterious circumstances in Tennessee.
1722
Shah Sultan Husayn surrenders the Persian capital of Isfahan to Afghan rebels after a seven month siege.
1702
Admiral Sir George Rooke defeats the French fleet off Vigo.
1609
The song “Three Blind Mice” is published in London, believed to be the earliest printed secular song.
1576
Rudolf II, the king of Hungary and Bohemia, succeeds his father, Maximilian II, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1492
Christopher Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas.