October 12 is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
NATIONAL GUMBO DAY
2000 – The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
NATIONAL GUMBO DAY
1492 – Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in the Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies. He also didn't know that, after being hailed as a hero, he'd become a pariah in 20th Century America.
1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
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.
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
1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
1918 – A massive forest fire, the Cloquet Fire, kills 453 people in Minnesota. It was the worst natural disaster in Minnesota history in terms of the number of casualties in a single day.
1960 – Cold War: Soviet Premier 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
1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus. Also referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper, it was a 2,282 lb robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989, to map the surface of Venus by using synthetic aperture radar and to measure the planetary gravitational field. The Magellan probe was the first interplanetary mission to be launched from the Space Shuttle, the first one to use the Inertial Upper Stage booster for launching, and the first spacecraft to test aerobraking as a method for circularizing its orbit.
2000 – The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
1872 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (d. 1958)
1931 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula (d. 2002)
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
TODAY"S BIRTHS
1860 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass (d. 1930)
1872 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (d. 1958)
1931 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula (d. 2002)
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
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