Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 12
This is a list of selected October 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Ineligible
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| 1859 – Self-described "Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico" Emperor Norton "ordered" the United States Congress to dissolve. | Moved to 17 September, date of his proclamation |
| 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly pounded his shoe on a desk during the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in response to Filipino delegate Lorenzo Sumulong's assertion of Soviet colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe. | date not certain |
Eligible
- 1398 – The Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Konrad von Jungingen signed the Treaty of Salynas, the third attempt after the 1384 Treaty of Königsberg and the 1390 Treaty of Lyck to cede Samogitia to the Knights.
- 1492 – Believing he had reached the East Indies, Christopher Columbus (pictured) made landfall on an island in the Caribbean, sparking a series of events that led to the European colonization of the Americas.
- 1871 – The Criminal Tribes Act entered into force in British India, giving law enforcement sweeping powers to arrest, control, and monitor the movements of the members of 160 specific ethnic or social communities that were defined as "habitually criminal".
- 1915 – A German firing squad executed British nurse Edith Cavell for helping Allied soldiers to escape occupied Belgium.
- 1917 – First World War: New Zealand troops suffered 2,735 casualties, including 845 deaths, in the First Battle of Passchendaele, making it the nation's largest loss of life in one day.
- 1928 – An "iron lung" medical ventilator, designed by Philip Drinker and colleagues at Children's Hospital, Boston, was used for the first time to treat poliomyelitis.
- 1964 – The Soviet Voskhod 1 mission became the first multi-person space flight as well as the first without spacesuits.
- 1968 – Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain.
- 1988 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Indian troops mounted a failed assault on Jaffna University, which served as the Tamil Tigers' military headquarters.
- 1999 – Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf led a military coup against the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
- 2000 – Two suicide bombers attacked the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole while it was at anchor in Aden, Yemen, killing 17 of its crew members and injuring 39 others.
- 2002 – A series of bombs planted by Islamist militant group Jemaah Islamiyah exploded in Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 people and injuring 209 others.
Notes
- 1492 light sighting appears on October 11, so Christopher Columbus should not appear in the same year.
- Operation Pawan appears on October 11, so Jaffna University Helidrop should not appear in the same year.
October 12: Columbus celebrations in various countries in the Americas; Our Lady Aparecida's Day and Children's Day in Brazil; National Day in Equatorial Guinea (1968) and Spain (1492)
- 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse became the first woman to make a parachute descent (artwork pictured), falling 900 m (3,000 ft) in a hot-air balloon gondola.
- 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, Illinois.
- 1960 – Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated on live television by a man using a samurai sword.
- 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 most of her cabinet.