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

Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacutation of 1,000,000 people.

Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in Peru.

The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.

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

Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.

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

Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.

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

After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.

Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma is stabbed to death during a live Television broadcast.

A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.

The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.

Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.

Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.

The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.