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  • 539 BC Army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon
  • 1279 Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon
  • 1492 Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall on a Caribbean island he names San Salvador (likely Watling Island, Bahamas). The explorer believes he has reached East Asia (OS 21 Oct)
  • 1864 Brazilian troops under the command of Gen. João Propício Mena Barreto invade Uruguay in a prelude to the War of the Triple Alliance
  • USS Holland (Submarine Torpedo Boat #1) underway in 1900

    USS Holland (SS-1)

    1900 First modern submarine is commissioned by the US Navy as the USS Holland, named for its designer John Philip Holland
  • The 1910 Model T Ford

    Model T

    1915 Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford manufactures its 1 millionth automobile at the River Rouge plant in Detroit
  • 1999 The Day of Six Billion is proclaimed as the 6 billionth living human in the world is born
More October 12 Events
  • 1960 Japanese politician Inejiro Asanuma is assassinated with a sword during a televised debate live on TV by 17-year old nationalist Otoya Yamaguchi
  • 1987 George Harrison releases single "Got My Mind Set On You", it becomes his third solo #1 hit, and the last chart-topper by any of the former Beatles
  • 1968 IXX Summer Olympic Games open at Mexico City, Mexico; first Olympics in Latin America

Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice" is published in London in a book edited by and possibly written by Thomas Ravenscroft

October 12, 1609

  • Edward VI

    1537 - 1553

  • Pedro I

    1798 - 1834

  • Ramsay MacDonald

    1866 - 1937

  • August Horch

    1868 - 1951
More Birthdays on October 12

  • Hugh Jackman

    57 Years Old

  • Josh Hutcherson

    33 Years Old

  • Luciano Pavarotti

    1935 - 2007

  • Calum Scott

    37 Years Old

  • Rick Ferrell

    1905 - 1995

  • Joe Cronin

    1906 - 1984

  • Maribel Vinson

    1911 - 1961

  • Jaroslav Drobný

    1921 - 2001

  • Sally Little

    74 Years Old

  • Marion Jones

    50 Years Old

King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash as the flood tide swamps his wagons, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge

October 12, 1216

  • 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.
  • 1822 French "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" author Victor Hugo (20) weds Adele Fourcher (19) in Paris, until her death in 1868
  • 1893 American education pioneer, and two-time widower Booker T. Washington (37) weds third wife, American educator Margaret James Murray (28), until his death in 1915
More October 12 Weddings

  • Maximilian II

    1527 - 1576

  • Elizabeth Fry

    1780 - 1845

  • Robert E. Lee

    1807 - 1870

  • Eugene Bullard

    1895 - 1961

  • René Lacoste

    1904 - 1996

  • Wilt Chamberlain

    1936 - 1999
More October 12 Deaths
  • A widely circulated propaganda image of Edith Cavell’s execution, supposedly finished off by a German officer

    Edith Cavell – England’s Heroine Nurse

    Without fear or favour nurse Edith Cavell tended the wounded in war-torn Europe. She also helped soldiers escape and sadly paid the ultimate price on this day. October 12, 1915
  • Musician and Beatle John Lennon

    Weekly Quiz for October 7 - 13

    John Lennon released the best-selling single of his solo career in 1971, what was it? Leif Ericson became the 1st European to do what this week in 1000 AD?
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  • George Gissing pictured around 1890. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

    Writer Becomes a Prisoner of Love

    October 10, 1894
  • Defender of the Faith Queen Elizabeth II is all smiles at a meeting with an unhappy-looking Pope John Paul II

    Defender of the Faith Henry Rejects Rome

    October 11, 1521
  • Sir Henry Irving, superstar of the stage in Victorian England

    Question that Wrecked Sir Henry Irving’s Marriage

    October 13, 1905
  • Watched by London

    Grim History of London's Speakers' Corner

    October 14, 1855
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