# What happened on October 12 in history?

**Date:** October 12  
**Events recorded:** 66  
**Years spanned:** 539 BC – 2022  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/october/12/

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## Featured Event

**2022** — 2022 Bratislava shooting, killing 3 (including the perpetrator) and injuring one. The shooting occurred outside of a gay bar in Bratislava known as Tepláreň. Two people (excluding the perpetrator) died as a result of the shooting: Juraj Vankulič, a non-binary person, and Matúš Horváth, a bisexual man. The perpetrator (Juraj Krajčík) was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot the morning after the attack.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Bratislava_shooting)

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## Events on this date

- **539 BC** — The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia conquer Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great))
- **633** — Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hatfield_Chase))
- **1279** — The Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichiren_Sh%C5%8Dsh%C5%AB))
- **1398** — In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Salynas))
- **1406** — Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four months before. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Yanxiang))
- **1492** — Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall on San Salvador Island in the Caribbean. (Julian calendar) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus))
- **1654** — The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft))
- **1692** — The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials))
- **1748** — War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins'_Ear))
- **1773** — America's first insane asylum opens. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_State_Hospital_(Virginia)))
- **1792** — The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day))
- **1793** — The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_East))
- **1798** — Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants'_War_(1798)))
- **1799** — Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Genevi%C3%A8ve_Garnerin))
- **1810** — The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich))
- **1822** — Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_I_of_Brazil))
- **1849** — The city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by 'The Expedition of the 20'. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manizales))
- **1856** — An M 7.7–8.3 earthquake off the Greek island of Crete cause major damage as far as Egypt and Malta. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1856_Heraklion_earthquake))
- **1871** — The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes". ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Tribes_Act))
- **1890** — Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uddevalla_Suffrage_Association))
- **1892** — The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance))
- **1901** — President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt))
- **1909** — Foundation of Coritiba Foot Ball Club. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coritiba_Foot_Ball_Club))
- **1915** — World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I))
- **1917** — World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Passchendaele))
- **1918** — A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloquet_Fire))
- **1928** — An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung))
- **1933** — The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Alcatraz))
- **1944** — World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1945** — World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Doss))
- **1945** — The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_Issara))
- **1959** — At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APRA_Rebelde))
- **1960** — Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev))
- **1962** — The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. There was at least U.S. $230 million in damages and 46 people died. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day_storm_of_1962))
- **1963** — After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ciszek))
- **1964** — The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure suits. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod_1))
- **1967** — A bomb explodes on board Cyprus Airways Flight 284 while flying over the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_Airways_Flight_284))
- **1968** — Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea))
- **1970** — Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamization))
- **1971** — The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%2C500-year_celebration_of_the_Persian_Empire))
- **1973** — President Nixon nominates House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as the successor to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford))
- **1976** — Indian Airlines Flight 171 crashes at Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India, killing 95. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_171))
- **1977** — Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao Zedong as paramount leader of China. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Guofeng))
- **1979** — Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Tip))
- **1983** — Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakuei_Tanaka))
- **1984** — The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.  The bomb kills five people and wounds at least 31 others. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army))
- **1988** — Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Police))
- **1992** — A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Cairo_earthquake))
- **1994** — The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_(spacecraft)))
- **1994** — Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 crashes near Natanz, Iran, killing all 66 people on board. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Aseman_Airlines_Flight_746))
- **1996** — New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand))
- **1997** — The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Algeria))
- **1999** — Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervez_Musharraf))
- **1999** — The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazia))
- **2000** — The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_(DDG-67)))
- **2002** — Terrorists detonate bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 and wounding over 200. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Bali_bombings))
- **2005** — The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_6))
- **2010** — The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yle_TV2))
- **2012** — The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union))
- **2013** — An apartment building collapse in Medellín, Colombia results in the deaths of twelve people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Space_Building))
- **2017** — The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO))
- **2018** — Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Eugenie))
- **2019** — Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Hagibis))
- **2019** — Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliud_Kipchoge))
- **2019** — The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing three workers and injuring 30 others. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1031_Canal_Street))
- **2022** — 2022 Bratislava shooting, killing 3 (including the perpetrator) and injuring one. The shooting occurred outside of a gay bar in Bratislava known as Tepláreň. Two people (excluding the perpetrator) died as a result of the shooting: Juraj Vankulič, a non-binary person, and Matúš Horváth, a bisexual man. The perpetrator (Juraj Krajčík) was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot the morning after the attack. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Bratislava_shooting))

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## Notable births on October 12

- **2004** — **Darci Lynne** — American ventriloquist ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darci_Lynne))
- **2002** — **Iris Apatow** — American actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Apatow))
- **2000** — **Jongho** — South Korean singer and actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jongho))
- **2000** — **Mia Threapleton** — British actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Threapleton))
- **1999** — **Ferdia Walsh-Peelo** — Irish actor and musician ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdia_Walsh-Peelo))
- **1997** — **Curtis Scott** — Australian rugby league player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Scott))
- **1996** — **James Graham** — British singer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Graham_(singer)))
- **1996** — **Owen Watkin** — Welsh rugby player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Watkin))
- **1995** — **Jessica Hogg** — Welsh artistic gymnast ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Hogg))
- **1994** — **Sean Monahan** — Canadian ice hockey player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Monahan))

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## Notable deaths on October 12

- **2025** — **Jackie Burch** — American casting director (born 1951) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Burch))
- **2024** — **Jackmaster** — Scottish DJ and record producer (born 1986) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackmaster))
- **2024** — **Ka** — American rapper (born 1972) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka_(rapper)))
- **2024** — **Lilly Ledbetter** — American activist (born 1938) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter))
- **2024** — **Tito Mboweni** — South African politician (born 1959) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Mboweni))
- **2024** — **Alvin Rakoff** — Canadian film and television director (born 1927) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Rakoff))
- **2024** — **Alex Salmond** — Scottish economist and politician, First Minister of Scotland (born 1954) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Salmond))
- **2024** — **Baba Siddique** — Indian politician (born 1958) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Siddique))
- **2023** — **Luis Garavito** — Colombian serial killer (born 1957) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Garavito))
- **2020** — **Conchata Ferrell** — American actress (born 1943) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conchata_Ferrell))

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