October 12 in history
Events on October 12
Notable events that happened on October 12 in past years.
- 2022
2022 Bratislava shooting occurs outside a gay bar, killing 3 (including the perpetrator) and injuring one.
Wikipedia article: 2022 Bratislava shooting - 2013
An apartment building collapse in Medellín, Colombia results in the deaths of twelve people.
Wikipedia article: Collapse of the Space Building - 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 article: USS Cole (DDG-67) - 1997
The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.
Wikipedia article: List of massacres in Algeria - 1988
Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
Wikipedia article: Victoria Police - 1976
Indian Airlines Flight 171 crashes at Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India, killing 95.
Wikipedia article: Indian Airlines Flight 171 - 1967
A bomb explodes on board Cyprus Airways Flight 284 while flying over the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66.
Wikipedia article: Cyprus Airways Flight 284 - 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 article: APRA Rebelde - 1933
The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
Wikipedia article: Fort Alcatraz - 1909
Foundation of Coritiba Foot Ball Club.
Wikipedia article: Coritiba Foot Ball Club - 1856
An M 7.7–8.3 earthquake off the Greek island of Crete causes major damage as far as Egypt and Malta.
Wikipedia article: 1856 Heraklion earthquake - 1798
Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
Wikipedia article: Peasants' War (1798) - 1748
War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana.
Wikipedia article: War of Jenkins' Ear - 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.
- 539 BC
The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia conquer Babylon, ending the Neo-Babylonian Empire. (Julian calendar)
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