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Historical Events on October 12

  • Christopher Columbus

    1492

    Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies.

  • World War I

    1915

    World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

  • Cold War

    1960

    Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe.

  • Soviet Union

    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.

  • Vietnam War

    1967

    Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam's opposition.

  • Richard Nixon

    1970

    Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas

  • Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

    1986

    Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit China.

  • Pervez Musharraf

    1999

    Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.

  • Abkhazia

    1999

    The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia

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