Tukuk-OS📅 October 12
18 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
Advertisement
What happened on October 12? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2013 — Twelve people were killed in an apartment-building collapse (pictured) in Medellín, leading to new construction laws being passed in Colombia.
- 1992 — An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 or 5.9 struck south of Cairo, Egypt, killing 545 people.
- 1984 — The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in a failed attempt to assassinate British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.
Provisional Irish Republican ArmyBrighton hotel bombingGrand Brighton Hotel
- 1979 — Typhoon Tip, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, reached a worldwide record-low sea-level pressure of 870 mbar (25.69 inHg) in the western Pacific Ocean.
- 1978 — While in prison for murder, boxer James Scott defeated Eddie "The Flame" Gregory, a leading light heavyweight.
- 1960 — Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly pounded his shoe on a desk during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong.
Nikita KhrushchevShoe-banging incidentUnited Nations General Assembly
- 1960 — Japan Socialist Party leader Inejirō Asanuma (pictured) was assassinated during a live television recording by a far-right ultra-nationalist using a short sword.
Japan Socialist PartyInejirō AsanumaAssassination of Inejirō Asanuma
- 1946 — Il Canto degli Italiani is adopted as national anthem by the newly formed Italian Republic.
- 1933 — The United States Department of Justice acquired a military prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, to be transformed into the last-resort Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
United States Department of JusticeAlcatraz IslandSan Francisco Bay
- 1928 — The iron lung (example pictured), a type of medical ventilator, was used for the first time at the Boston Children's Hospital to treat an eight-year-old girl paralyzed by polio.
- 1917 — First World War: New Zealand troops suffered more than 2,000 casualties, including more than 800 deaths, in the First Battle of Passchendaele, making it the nation's largest loss of life in one day.
- 1898 — A statue of Austin Blair (pictured) was dedicated in a ceremony that attracted up to 30,000 people to Lansing, Michigan.
- 1892 — The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States was first used in public schools to coincide with the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
- 1890 — The Uddevalla Suffrage Association was founded in Uddevalla, Sweden, with the purpose of bringing about universal suffrage.
- 1799 — Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin became the first woman to make a parachute descent, falling 900 metres (3,000 ft) in the gondola of a hot air balloon.
- 1798 — The Peasants' War began in Overmere, Southern Netherlands, with peasants taking up arms against the French occupiers.
- 1492 — Believing he had reached the East Indies, Christopher Columbus made landfall on an island in the Caribbean, sparking a series of events that led to the European colonization of the Americas.
- 1406 — Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reached Seoul four months after leaving Java.
Births
- 2004 — Darci Lynne, American ventriloquist
- 2002 — Iris Apatow, American actress
- 2001 — Brett Cooper, American political commentator, actress, and social media personality
- 2000 — Jongho, South Korean singer and actor
- 2000 — Mia Threapleton, British actress
- 1999 — Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Irish actor and musician
- 1997 — Curtis Scott, Australian rugby league player
- 1996 — James Graham, British singer
- 1996 — Owen Watkin, Welsh rugby player
- 1995 — Jessica Hogg, Welsh artistic gymnast
- 1994 — Sean Monahan, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1994 — Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer
Deaths
- 2026 — RJ Mitte, American actor and producer (born 1992)
- 2025 — Jackie Burch, American casting director (born 1951)
- 2024 — Jackmaster, Scottish DJ and record producer (born 1986)
- 2024 — Ka, American rapper (born 1972)
- 2024 — Lilly Ledbetter, American activist (born 1938)
- 2024 — Tito Mboweni, South African politician (born 1959)
- 2024 — Alvin Rakoff, Canadian film and television director (born 1927)
- 2024 — Alex Salmond, Scottish economist and politician, First Minister of Scotland (born 1954)
- 2024 — Baba Siddique, Indian politician (born 1958)
- 2023 — Luis Garavito, Colombian serial killer (born 1957)
- 2020 — Conchata Ferrell, American actress (born 1943)
- 2020 — Roberta McCain, American socialite and oil heiress (born 1912)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Domnina of Anazarbus
- Christian feast day: Edith Cavell and Elizabeth Fry (Church of England)
- Christian feast day: Fiacc
- Christian feast day: Our Lady of the Pillar (Fiestas del Pilar)
- Christian feast day: Our Lady of Aparecida
- Christian feast day: Blessed Louis Brisson
- Christian feast day: Radim Gaudentius (Czech Republic)
- Christian feast day: Blessed Roman Sitko
- Christian feast day: Seraphin of Montegranaro
- Christian feast day: Thomas Bullaker
- Christian feast day: Wilfrid of Ripon
- Christian feast day: Carlo Acutis
- Christian feast day: October 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Children's Day (Brazil)
- Discovery of America by Columbus-related observances (see also October 8): Columbus Day (Honduras)
- Discovery of America by Columbus-related observances (see also October 8): Día de la Hispanidad or Fiesta Nacional de España, also Armed Forces Day (Spain)
- Discovery of America by Columbus-related observances (see also October 8): Día de la Raza (El Salvador, Uruguay)
- Discovery of America by Columbus-related observances (see also October 8): Día de la Resistencia Indígena, "Day of Indigenous Resistance" (Venezuela)
- Discovery of America by Columbus-related observances (see also October 8): Día de las Américas (Belize)
- Discovery of America by Columbus-related observances (see also October 8): Día de las Culturas, "Day of the Cultures" (Costa Rica)
- Discovery of America by Columbus-related observances (see also October 8): Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural, "Day of respect for cultural diversity" (Argentina)
- Discovery Day (The Bahamas)
- Feast for Life of Aleister Crowley, celebrated as "Crowleymas" (Thelema)
- Fiesta Nacional de España (Spain)
- Hafez Day (Iran) 1
- Independence Day (Equatorial Guinea), celebrates the independence of Equatorial Guinea from Spain in 1968.
- International Day Against DRM
Advertisement
Advertisement