On this day in History - Oct. 12

• 0539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
• 0632 - Edwin of Deira dies. King of Northumbria and Bretwalda.
• 0638 - Pope Honorius I dies. Pope Severinus elected.
• 0642 - Pope John IV dies.
• 1008 - Emperor Go-Ichijō was born (d. 1036). Emperor of Japan.
• 1095 - Margrave Leopold II of Austria dies (b. 1050).
• 1176 - William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel dies. English politician.
• 1216 - King John lost his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge.
• 1279 - Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon.
• 1320 - Michael IX Palaeologus dies (b. 1277). Co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor.
• 1350 - Dmitry Donskoy was born (d. 1389). Grand Prince of Moscovy and Prince of Vladimir.
• 1398 - the Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
• 1490 - Bernardo Pisano was born (d. 1548). Italian composer.
• 1491 - Fritz Herlen dies. German artist.
• 1492 - Christopher Columbus's expedition, sailing for Spain’s Queen Isabel, makes landfall in the Caribbean. The explorer believes he has reached East Asia.
• 1492 - Piero della Francesca dies. Italian painter.
• 1537 - King Edward VI of England was born (d. 1553).
• 1558 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria was born (d. 1618).
• 1558 - Jacques Sirmond was born (d. 1651). French scholar and Jesuit.
• 1565 - Jean Ribault dies (b. 1520). French explorer and colonizer.
• 1576 - Thomas Dudley was born (d. 1653). Massachusetts colonial magistrate.
• 1576 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor dies (b. 1527). Rudolf II, the king of Hungary and Bohemia, succeeded his father, Maximillian II, as Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1590 - Kano Eitoku dies (b. 1543). Japanese painter.
• 1600 - Luis Molina dies (b. 1535). Spanish Jesuit.
• 1602 - William Chillingworth was born (d. 1644). English churchman.
• 1609 - "Three Blind Mice" published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft
• 1632 - Kutsuki Mototsuna dies (b. 1549). Japanese samurai commander.
• 1646 - François de Bassompierre dies (b. 1579). Marshal of France.
• 1654 - The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100.
• 1678 - Edmund Berry Godfrey dies (b. 1621). English magistrate.
• 1679 - William Gurnall dies (b. 1617). English writer.
• 1681 - A London woman is publicly flogged for the crime of "involving herself in politics".
• 1685 - Christoph Ignaz Abele dies (b. 1628). Austrian jurist.
• 1692 - The Salem Witch Trials were ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
• 1692 - Giovanni Battista Vitali dies. Italian violinist and composer.
• 1709 - After a democratic voting, La Villa de San Francisco de Cuéllar was founded, which with time turned into San Felipe del Real Chihuahua and now it is known as the city of Chihuahua.
• 1710 - Jonathan Trumbull was born (d. 1785). Governor of Connecticut.
• 1712 - William Shippen was born (d. 1801). American physician and Continental Congressman.
• 1725 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy was born (d. 1810). French pharmacist and entomologist.
• 1730 - King Frederick IV of Denmark dies (b. 1671).
• 1746 - Lobo de Mesquita (José Joaquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita) was born in Vila do Príncipe, Minas Gerais (d. 1805). Brazilian composer.
• 1758 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth dies (b. 1680). British field marshal.
• 1773 - America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
• 1775 - The United States Navy is formed.
• 1792 - First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York / The first monument honoring Christopher Columbus was dedicated in Baltimore.
• 1792 - Christian Gottlob Gmelin was born (d. 1860). German chemist.
• 1793 - The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
• 1798 - Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (Pedro IV of Portugal) was born.
• 1801 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé was born (d. 1873). Swiss Federal Councilor.
• 1808 - D. João VI founds the Bank of Brazil.
• 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.
• 1810 - Nísia Floresta was born (d. 1885). Brazilian writer and poet.
• 1822 - Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of Brazilian Empire /O Brasil oficialmente declara a sua independência de Portugal. Pedro I do Brasil é proclamado Imperador do Brasil.
• 1823 - Charles Macintosh, of Scotland, sells the first raincoat.
• 1825 - Franz Joseph Müller von Reichenstein dies (b. 1740 or 1742). Austrian minerologist who discovered tellurium.
• 1835 - Diogo Feijó assume a regência do Império do Brasil.
• 1840 - Helena Modrzejewska was born (d. 1909). Polish-born American actress.
• 1845 - Elizabeth Fry dies (b. 1780). British social reformer and philanthropist.
• 1847 - Ernst Werner von Siemens funda empresa de eletrônica que leva seu sobrenome
• 1850 - The first women's medical college opens, in Pennsylvania.
• 1850 - Pedro de Sousa Holstein dies (b. 1781). Portuguese militar and politician.
• 1855 - Arthur Nikisch was born. Hungarian conductor and violinist.
• 1859 - Self-described "Emperor of the United States" Joshua A. Norton 'orders' the U.S. Congress to dissolve
• 1860 - Elmer Sperry was born (d. 1930). American inventor.
• 1862 - Bartolomé Mitre becomes President of Argentina.
• 1862 - King Luís I of Portugal and Dona Maria Pia de Sabóia were married.
• 1865 - Arthur Harden was born (d. 1940). English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1866 - Ramsay MacDonald was born (d. 1937). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1868 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento toma posse como presidente da Argentina
• 1870 - Robert E. Lee dies (b. 1807). American Confederate general.
• 1872 - Ralph Vaughan Williams was born (d. 1958). English composer.
• 1874 - Nicolás Avellaneda assumes the Presdency of Argentina.
• 1874 - Jimmy Burke was born (d. 1942). American baseball player.
• 1875 - Aleister Crowley was born (d. 1947). English occultist and author.
• 1875 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux dies (b. 1827). French sculptor and painter.
• 1880 - Julio A. Roca assumes the Presidency of Argentina.
• 1880 - Louis Hémon was born (d. 1913). French novelist.
• 1887 - Paula von Preradović was born (d. 1951). Croatian-Austrian poet.
• 1888 - Abel Manta was born in Gouveia (d. 1982). Portuguese painter.
• 1890 - Nasce em Lisboa Luís de Freitas Branco (m. 1955). Compositor português (Paraísos Artificiais, Vathek).
• 1890 - Michael Collins was born (d. 1922). Irish leader.
• 1891 - Edith Stein was born (d. 1942). German Carmelite Catholic nun and martyr
• 1892 - To mark 400 anniversary Columbus Day holiday, the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in unison by students in US public schools
• 1892 - The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited in unison by students in US public schools.
• 1892 - Gilda dalla Rizza was born (d. 1975). Italian soprano.
• 1896 - Eugenio Montale was born (d. 1981). Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1896 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs dies (b. 1817). Danish nobleman and politician.
• 1898 - Establishment of the first town council in Mateur.
• 1898 - Calvin Fairbank dies (b. 1816).American abolitionist minister.
• 1899 - Boer republic of South Africa declares war with England.
• 1901 - President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
• 1901 - Santos Dumont, com seu Balão nº 6, dá a volta em torno da Torre Eiffel, percorrendo 11 quilômetros
• 1904 - Ding Ling was born (d. 1986). Chinese writer.
• 1904 - Lester Dent was born (d. 1959). American writer.
• 1905 - Joseph Kosma was born († 1969). Hungary-born French composer.
• 1906 - Joe Cronin was born (d. 1984). American baseball player.
• 1908 - Ann Petry was born (d. 1997). American novelist.
• 1909 - Coritiba Foot Ball Club is founded in Brazil.
• 1910 - Robert Fitzgerald was born (d. 1985). American poet and translator.
• 1910 - Bob Sheppard was born. New York Yankees announcer.
• 1912 - Alice Childress is born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1994). Actress, playright and novelist.
• 1913 - Fundação do Club Atlético Talleres - Argentina.
• 1915 - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.
• 1915 - Edith Cavell dies (b. 1865). English nurse.
• 1916 - Alice Childress was born (d. 1994). American actress, playwright, and novelist.
• 1917 - The First Battle of Passchendaele, now Passendale.
• 1917 - Roque Máspoli was born (d. 2004). Uruguayan footballer.
• 1918 - A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
• 1918 - Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza was born. Spanish architect.
• 1919 - Doris Miller was born (d. 1943). African American cook in the United States Navy
• 1919 - Gilles Beaudoin was born (d. 2007). Quebec politician.
• 1920 - Christy Ring was born (d. 1979). Irish hurler.
• 1920 – Yu Gwan-sun dies (b. 1904). Korean independence fighter.
• 1922 - Leon Eliachar was born in Cairo (d. 29 May 1987), Brazilian humourist.
  
• 1923 - Jean Nidetch was born. Founder of Weight Watchers.
• 1923 - Academia Costarricense de la Lengua is established (Costa Rica).
• 1923 - Fernando Sabino was born (d. 11 Oct. 2004). Brazilian journalist and writer.
• 1923 - Goody Petronelli was born., American boxing trainer and manager.
• 1924 - Asociación Colombiana de Fútbol is founded.
• 1924 - Doris Grau was born (d. 1995). American actress.
• 1924 - Anatole France dies (b. 1844). French author, Nobel Prize laureate in 1921.
• 1925 - Denis Lazure was born. Quebec politician.
• 1926 - Cesar Pelli was born. American architect.
• 1927 - Academia Dominicana de la Lengua is established (Dominican Republic).
• 1928 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
• 1928 - João Rui de Sousa was born in Lisbon. Portuguese poet who awarded the Prémio de Poesia do PEN Clube Português (2002), and the Prémio da Crítica do Centro Português da AICL, the same year / Nasce, em Lisboa, João Rui de Sousa. Poeta português. Fundou a revista "Cassiopeia". É autor, entre outros, de Sonetos de Cogitação e Êxtase.
• 1929 - Robert Coles was born. American psychologist and author.
• 1929 - Magnús Magnússon was born (d. 2007). Icelandic-born television presenter.
• 1931 - Inauguração do Monumento do Cristo Redentor no Rio de Janeiro (Brasil).
• 1932 - Dick Gregory was born. American comedian and civil rights activist.
• 1932 - Ned Jarrett was born. American race car driver.
• 1933 - The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice.
• 1933 - Guido Molinari was born (d. 2004). Canadian painter.
• 1934 - Albert Shiryaev was born. Russian mathematician.
• 1934 - Richard Meier was born. American architect.
• 1935 - Don Howe was born. English football player and manager.
• 1935 - Luciano Pavarotti was born (d. 2007). Italian Emmy Award-winning opera star (tenor).
• 1935 - Sam Moore was born. American R&B singer (Sam & Dave).
• 1937 - Paul Hawkins was born (d. 1969). Australian racing driver.
• 1937 - Robert Mangold was born. American artist.
• 1938 - Filming starts on The Wizard of Oz.
• 1938 - Bob Miller was born. American NHL broadcaster.
• 1939 - Arnaldo Saraiva was born in Casegas, Covilhã. Portuguese writer.
• 1939 - Fulvio Stefanini was born in São Paulo. Brazilian TV star and actor.
• 1940 - Tom Mix dies (b. 1880). American actor.
• 1941 - This and the next day, German Nazis kill 11,000 Jews in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Einsatzkommando 6 massacres most of the remaining Jews of the city, marching them to a ravine where they were killed.
• 1941 - Michael Mansfield was born. English barrister.
• 1942 - World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.
• 1942 - Vitória dos Americanos sobre os Japoneses em Guadalcanal.
• 1942 - Melvin Franklin was born. Musician (The Temptations).
• 1943 - Segunda Guerra Mundial: Portugal divulga assinatura do Acordo Luso-Britânico que concede ao Reino Unido instalações militares nos Açores.
• 1943 - Vítor Constâncio was born. Portuguese economist and politician.
• 1944 - Angela Rippon was born. British television personality.
• 1945 - World War II: Desmond Doss and others receive the Medal Of Honor on the White Houselawn from Harry S. Truman.
• 1945 - Aurore Clément was born. French actress.
• 1945 - Dusty Rhodes was born. Professional wrestler.
• 1946 - Perú: Se inaugura el Estadio Mansiche de Trujillo.
• 1946 - Joseph Stilwell dies (b. 1883). U.S. general.
• 1947 - Chris Wallace was born. American journalist.
• 1947 - George Lam was born. Hong Kong singer.
• 1948 - Rick Parfitt was born. British musician (Status Quo).
• 1948 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs dies (b. 1885). Educational psychologist and psychoanalyst.
  
• 1949 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez was born. Venezuelan international terrorist.
• 1949 - Stan Hansen was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1950 - Caroline Ellis was born. English actress.
• 1950 - Dave Freudenthal was born. American politician.
• 1950 - Kaga Takeshi was born. Japanese actor.
• 1950 - Robin Askwith was born. English actor.
• 1950 - Susan Anton was born. American actress.
• 1951 - Ed Royce was born. American politician.
• 1951 - Sally Ride was born. First American woman in space.
• 1952 - Danielle Proulx was born. Quebec actress.
• 1953 - Les Dennis was born. British comedian and TV presenter.
• 1953 - Serge Lepeltier was born. French politician.
• 1953 - The Caine Mutiny Court Martial opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York.
• 1954 - George Welch dies (b. 1918). American pilot.
• 1955 - Ante Gotovina was born. Croatian general.
• 1955 - Jane Siberry was born. Canadian musician.
• 1956 - David Vanian was born. British singer, (The Damned).
• 1956 - Don Lorenzo Perosi dies (b. 1872).Italian composer.
• 1957 - Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson wins The Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1957 - At first page of Melody Maker: Basie voted world's top jazzman.
• 1957 - 1st comercial flight between California and Antartica.
• 1957 - Sérgio Malandro was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian comedian.
• 1957 - Fernando Semana was born in Valbom, Gondomar. Portuguese economist, accountant and tax manager. / Nasce, em Valbom, concelho de Gondomar, Fernando Semana. Economista e fiscalista português.
• 1957 - Kristen Bjorn was born. British film director.
• 1958 - Bryn Merrick was born. British musician, (The Damned).
• 1958 - Gordon Griffith dies (b. 1907). American actor, director, and producer.
• 1959 - At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
• 1959 - Anna Escobedo Cabral was born. 42nd Treasurer of the United States.
• 1960 - Inejiro Asanuma is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The camera was rolling at that time.
• 1960 - Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a General Assembly of the United Nations meeting to protest discussion of Soviet Union policy toward Eastern Europe
• 1960 – Hiroyuki Sanada was born. Japanese actor.
• 1960 - Piero Taruffi was born. Race car driver.
• 1962 - Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages. / 12 October 1962, Vancouver Island, British Columbia: Remnants of Typhoon Freda strikes the Pacific Coast. Wind speeds at Victoria reach 74 km/hr (44 mph) with gusts to 145 km/hr (87 mph). Seven die, $10 million in damage.
• 1962 - Branko Crvenkovski was born. Macedonian President.
• 1962 - Carlos Bernard was born. American actor.
• 1962 - Chris Botti was born. American jazz musician.
• 1962 - Deborah Foreman was born. American actress.
• 1963 - Arturo Umberto Illia becomes Presdent of Argentina.
• 1963 - Alan McDonald was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 1963 - Lane Frost was born (d. 1989). American professional bull rider.
• 1963 - Luis Polonia was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1963 - Satoshi Kon was born. Japanese anime director.
• 1964 - Leonid Brejnev substituí Nikita Khrushchev como secretário geral do Partido Comunista da União Soviética.
• 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 space suits
• 1964 - Golpe de Estado contra o General Nguyen Khanh no Vietname do Sul sendo o poder tomado pelos militares
• 1965 - Jean-Jacques Daigneault was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1965 – Scott O'Grady was born. American military officer.
• 1965 - Paul Hermann Müller dies (b. 1899). Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1966 - René Lacoste dies (b. 1904). French tennis player.
• 1966 - Golpe militar de 1964: 6 deputados do MDB são cassados.
• 1966 - Brian Kennedy was born. Northern Irish musician and author.
• 1966 - Jonathan Crombie was born. Canadian actor.
• 1966 - Wim Jonk was born. Dutch football player.
• 1966 - Roberto Néstor Sensini was born. Argentine footballl player.
• 1967 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives were futile because of North Vietnam's opposition.
• 1967 - Ram Manohar Lohia dies (b. 1910). Indian Politician (Socialist) leader.
• 1967 – Paul Laine was born. Canadian singer composer.
• 1968 - 1968 (XIX) Summer Olympics open in Mexico City, Mexico.
• 1968 - Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
• 1968 - Anos de Chumbo: polícia invade congresso da UNE em Ibiúna e prende 1.240 estudantes, dentre estes, o líder da União Estadual de Estudantes de Minas Gerais José Dirceu
• 1968 - Adam Rich was born. American actor.
• 1968 - Bill Auberlen was born. American race car driver.
• 1968 – Hugh Jackman was born. Australian actor and singer.
• 1969 - Dwayne Roloson was born. Canadian NHL hockey player.
• 1969 - Jose Valentin was born. American baseball player.
• 1969 - Martie Maguire was born. American musician (Dixie Chicks).
• 1969 - Sonja Henie dies (b. 1912). Norwegian figure skater.
• 1970 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
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• 1970 - Charlie Ward was born. American football and basketball player.
• 1970 - Kirk Cameron was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Tanyon Sturtze was born. American baseball player.
• 1970 - Mustafa Zaidi dies (b. 1930). Pakistani poet.
• 1971 -"Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 711 performances.
• 1971 - Madureira Esporte Clube is founded (Brazil).
• 1971 - Cláudia Abreu was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1971 - Ahn Jae Wook was born. South Korean actor, composer and singer.
• 1971 - Tony Fiore was born. American baseball player.
• 1971 - Dean Acheson dies (b. 1893). U.S. Secretary of State.
• 1971 - Gene Vincent dies (b. 1935). American musician.
• 1972 - En route to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial brawl involving more than 100 sailors breaks out aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk.
• 1972 - Irina Pantaeva was born. Russian supermodel and actress.
• 1972 - Juan Manuel Silva was born. Argentine racing driver.
• 1972 – Mechele Linehan was born. American convicted murderess.
• 1972 - Tom Van Mol was born. Belgian football player.
• 1973 - Juan Peron was reelected President of Argentina.
• 1973 - Jaume d'Urgell was born. Spanish writer.
• 1973 - Lesli Brea was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1973 – Martin Corry was born. English rugby player.
• 1973 - Rodney Mack was born. Professional wrestler.
• 1973 – Peter Aufschnaiter dies (b. 1899). Austrian mountaineer, known from Seven Years in Tibet.
• 1974 – Marie Wilson was born. Canadian actress.
• 1974 - Stephen Lee was born. English snooker player.
• 1975 - Karmyn Tyler was born in Shreveport Louisiana. Miss America-Louisiana 1996.
• 1975 - Marion Jones was born. American athlete.
• 1976 - The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to the late Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party of China.
• 1976 – Sarah Lane was born. American television personality.
• 1977 - Jordan Pundik was born. American singer (New Found Glory).
• 1977 - Carmen Carrillo Vilanova was born. Miss El Salvador Universe 1997.
• 1977 - Bode Miller was born. American alpine ski-racer.
• 1977 - Javier Toyo was born. Venezuelan footballer.
• 1977 - Jay Jenkins was born. American rapper also known as "Young Jeezy".
• 1977 - Jessica Barker was born. Canadian actress.
• 1978 - Baden Cooke was born. Australian cyclist.
• 1978 – Marko Jaric was born. Serbian basketball player.
• 1978 - Nancy Spungen dies (b. 1958). Girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious.
• 1979 - The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
• 1979 - Jordan Pundik was born. American singer (New Found Glory).
• 1980 – Ledley King was born. English footballer.
• 1981 - Brian Kerr was born. Scottish international footballer.
• 1981 - Shola Ameobi was born. English football player.
• 1981 - Sneha was born. Indian actress.
• 1981 - Tom Guiry was born. American actor.
• 1982 - Molly Bennett was born. Irish folk singer.
• 1983 - Japan's ex Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
• 1983 - Alex Brosque was born. Australian footballer.
• 1983 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling dies (b. 1929). Wrestling manager.
• 1984 - Brighton hotel bombing: Margaret Thatcher survives an IRA bomb, which shredded her bathroom barely two minutes after she had left it.
• 1984 - Sir Anthony Berry dies (b. 1925). British politician (bombing victim).
• 1985 - Mike Green was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1985 - Johnny Olson dies (b. 1910). American game show announcer.
• 1985 - Ricky Wilson dies (b. 1953). American musician; member of The B-52's.
• 1986 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China.
• 1986 – Emmanuel Nwachi was born. Nigerian footballer.
• 1986 - Marcus T. Paulk was born. American actor.
• 1986 - Sergio Peter was born. German footballer.
• 1986 - Ruy Cinatti dies (b. 1915). Portuguese poet / Morre o poeta Ruy Cinatti (n. em Londres, 08 Mar 1915), cuja ascendência era portuguesa e italiana (Meditação).
• 1987 - Oscar Arias (Costa Rican President) wins Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1987 - Alf Landon dies (b. 1887). Governor of Kansas.
• 1987 - Fahri Koruturk dies (b. 1903). President of Turkey.
• 1988 - Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
• 1988 - NeXT launches its first public debut of the NeXT Computer at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California.
• 1988 - Ruth Manning-Sanders dies (b. 1895). Author of children's books.
• 1989 - Carmen Cavallaro dies (b. 1913). American popular pianist.
• 1989 - Jay Ward dies (b. 1920). American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.).
• 1990 - Henri Lansbury was born. English footballer.
• 1991 - Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by republic's Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.
• 1991 - Steven Spielberg weds Kate Capshaw.
• 1991 - Arkady Strugatsky dies (b. 1925). Russian novelist.
• 1992 - Josh Hutcherson was born. American actor.
• 1992 - Taylor Horn was born. American singer and actress.
• 1992 - Ulysses Guimarães dies in accident (b. 1916). Brazilian politician.
• 1992 - Mário de Carvalho vence a 1ª. Edição do Grande Prémio de Conto da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores, com "Quatrocentos mil Sestércios seguido do Conde de Jano"
• 1992 - Expo '92 closes in Seville Spain.
• 1993 - O Prémio Nobel da Economia é atribuído a Robert W. Foggel e Douglas C. North.
• 1993 - Leon Ames dies (b. 1902). American actor.
• 1993 - Tofik Bakhramov dies (b. 1926). Russian footballer.
• 1994 - NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably turned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14)
• 1994 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência do Haiti
• 1994 - American Clifford G. Shull and Canadian Bertram N. Brockhouse won the Nobel physics prize; American George A. Olah won the Nobel chemistry prize.
• 1994 - Gérald Godin dies (b. 1938). Québécois poet and politician.
• 1995 - Descoberto o primeiro planeta de uma estrela que não o Sol: 51 Pegasi b
• 1996 - René Lacoste dies (b. 1904). French tennis player.
• 1996 - Roger Lapébie dies (b. 1911). French cyclist.
• 1997 - Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
• 1997 - Prince Boris of Bulgaria was born.
• 1997 - John Denver dies when an amateur-built airplane that he was piloting, crashed into Monterey Bay, California (b. 1943). American singer/songwriter
• 1998 - The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to 3 Americans, Robert F. Furchgott (82), Louis Ignarro (57) and Ferid Murad (62), for their work on nitric oxide gas in biochemical functions in the human body.
• 1998 - U.S. Congress passes Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
• 1998 - Matthew Shepard dies (b. 1976). American murder victim.
• 1998 - Mario Beaulieu dies (b. 1930). French Canadian politician.
• 1999 - Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tries to dismiss Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf, who is returning to Pakistan from abroad in a commercial airliner. Sharif orders the Karachi airport to not allow the plane to land. Army leaders refuse to accept the dismissal and, in a coup, oust Sharif's administration and take over the airport. The plane lands with only a few minutes of fuel to spare, and Musharraf assumes control of the country.
• 1999 - The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
• 1999 – Robert Marsden Hope dies (b. 1919). Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner.
  
• 1999 - Wilt Chamberlain dies (b. 1936). American basketball player.
• 2000 - Igor Correa Luna dies. Violoncelist and conductor.
• 2000 - In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crewmembers and wounding at least 39
• 2000 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French author, receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
• 2000 - The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39
• 2001 - Prompted by a request by US President George W. Bush, an episode of America's Most Wanted features 22 most wanted terrorists.
• 2001 - Kofi Annan, Sec. Gen. of the UN, and the UN itself won the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 2001 - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone dies (b. 1907). British politician.
• 2002 - Terrorists detonate bombs in Paddy's Pub and the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
• 2002 - Ray Conniff dies (b. 1916). American bandleader and musician.
• 2002 - Audrey Mestre dies (b. 1974). French diver.
• 2002 - Dr. Dianne Kasnic Prinz dies (b. 29 Sep. 1938). American Payload Specialist Astronaut.
  
• 2003 - Belarus mental hospital fire: Thirty patients die in a mental hospital fire in Randilovshchina, Belarus.
• 2003 - Michael Schumacher clinches his 6th Formula One championship, an all-time record
• 2003 - Jim Cairns dies (b. 1914). Australian politician.
• 2003 - Joan Kroc dies (b. 1928). American philanthropist.
• 2003 - Willie Shoemaker dies (b. 1931). American jockey.
• 2005 - The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 is scheduled to carry two astronauts for five days in orbit.
• 2005 - C. Delores Tucker dies (b. 1927). American politician and civil rights activist.
• 2006 - A law is passed in France that makes denying the Armenian Genocide a crime.
• 2006 - An enormous lake effect snow storm drops 4 feet of snow on Western New York shutting power out for 1 1/2 weeks, destroying more than 5 million trees and causing more than 1 million dollars worth of damage.
• 2006 - Gillo Pontecorvo dies (b. 1919). Italian film director.
• 2007 - Kisho Kurokawa dies (b. 1934). Japanese architect.
• 2007 - Paulo Autran dies (b. 1922). Brazilian actor.
• 2008 – Karl Chircop dies (b. 1965). Maltese politician.
• Roman festivals - Fortuna Redux, last day of the Ludi Augustales
• Catholic Saints - Our Lady of the Pillar (Zaragoza, Spain); Saint Wilfrid, St. Heribert
• Equatorial Guinea - Independence Day (from Spain, 1968)
• Malawi - Mother's Day
• Spain - Hispanic Day, National Day
• Columbus Day (traditionally) - United States.
• El Dia de la Raza - Latin America.
• French Republican Calendar - Chanvre (Hemp) Day, twenty-first day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
• Brazil - Children's Day and the day of Our Lady of Aparecida (National Religious holiday). /Comemora-se no Brasil o Dia da Criança.
• Crowleymas (Thelema).
• Philippines - Quezon City Founding.
• The Day of Six Billion.
• Dussehra (Hinduism, 2005).
• Bolivia : Festa da Virgem do Rosário em Cochabamba.
• United States - Freethought Day.
• United Kingdom - National Coming Out Day.