SomeFacts | October 12

On this day - October 12

The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia conquer Babylon, ending the ...

633 — Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated ...

1279 — The Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.

1398 — In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the ...

1406 — Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have ...

1492 — Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall on ...

1654 — The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, ...

1692 — The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of ...

1748 — War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical ...

1773 — America's first insane asylum opens.

1792 — The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.

1793 — The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university ...

1798 — Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion ...

1799 — Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from ...

1810 — The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in ...

1822 — Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.

1849 — The city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by 'The ...

1856 — An M 7.7–8.3 earthquake off the Greek island of Crete cause ...

1871 — The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming ...

1890 — Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.

1892 — The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many ...

1901 — President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the ...

1909 — Foundation of Coritiba Foot Ball Club.

1915 — World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a ...

1917 — World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place ...

1918 — A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.

1928 — An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston ...

1933 — The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz ...

1944 — World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.

1945 — The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and ...

1945 — World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector ...

1959 — At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary ...

1960 — Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at ...

1962 — The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with ...

1963 — After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, ...

1964 — The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as ...

1967 — A bomb explodes on board Cyprus Airways Flight 284 while ...

1968 — Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.

1970 — Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard ...

1971 — The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire begins.

1973 — President Nixon nominates House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford ...

1976 — Indian Airlines Flight 171 crashes at Santacruz Airport in ...

1977 — Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao Zedong as paramount leader of China.

1979 — Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical ...

1983 — Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found ...

1984 — The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate ...

1988 — Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down ...

1992 — A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.

1994 — Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 crashes near Natanz, Iran, ...

1994 — The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.

1996 — New Zealand holds its first general election under the new ...

1997 — The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake ...

1999 — The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its ...

1999 — Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif ...

2000 — The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two ...

2002 — Terrorists detonate bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, Bali, ...

2005 — The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, ...

2010 — The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen ...

2012 — The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.

2013 — An apartment building collapse in Medellín, Colombia results ...

2017 — The United States announces its decision to withdraw from ...

2018 — Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's ...

2019 — The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under ...

2019 — Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a ...

2019 — Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and ...

2022 — 2022 Bratislava shooting, killing 3 (including the ...