History Events on October 12

The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure suits.
#Voskhod_1

The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
#Magellan_(spacecraft)

Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
#Peasants'_War_(1798)

World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
#Desmond_Doss

The Nichiren Sh?sh? branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.
#Nichiren_Sh?sh?

World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
#Axis_occupation_of_Greece

The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
#Abkhazia
Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail.
#Lockheed_bribery_scandals

The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.
#Shenzhou_6

The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".
#Criminal_Tribes_Act

Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.
#Eliud_Kipchoge

The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages.
#Columbus_Day_Storm_of_1962

The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
#Alcatraz_Federal_Penitentiary

Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
#Princess_Eugenie

The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. and is immediately followed by Israel.
#UNESCO

Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.
#Pedro_I_of_Brazil

The city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by 'The Expedition of the 20'.
#Manizales

President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
#White_House

The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
#Old_East

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.
#Shoe-banging_incident

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

Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
#Equatorial_Guinea

An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
#Iron_lung

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

Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
#Battle_of_Hatfield_Chase

War of Jenkins' Ear : A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana.
#Battle_of_Havana_(1748)

America's first insane asylum opens.
#Eastern_State_Hospital_(Virginia)

The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest.
#Oktoberfest

Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
#Vietnamization

Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
#2002_Bali_bombings

World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
#First_Battle_of_Passchendaele

In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights.
#Treaty_of_Salynas

The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the western Pacific Ocean during Typhoon Tip.
#Typhoon_Tip

The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
#Columbus_Day

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.
#APRA_Rebelde

The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar)
#Cyrus_the_Great

Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas.
#Christopher_Columbus

Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG.
#Werner_von_Siemens

The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Province.
#Salem_witch_trials

The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
#Brighton_hotel_bombing