The October 12th is the 285e Jour of the Année (286e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 80 days before the end of the year.

Events

1 to 1900

•    900: The king Louis III is made crown king of Italy

• 1279: Nichiren Daishonin registers Dai Gohonzon for all humanity.
• 1428 : Beginning of the head office of Orleans by the English
• 1492: Discovered America by Christophe Colomb
• 1754: Joseph François Dupleix, general governor of French counters in India, ruined, re-embarks for the France
• 1789: The count d' Artois, brother of Louis XVI request with the emperor Joseph II to intervene in France.
• 1791 : Johann Georg Jacobi is elected vice-chancellor of the Albertina university of Freiburg-in-Brisgau, becoming the first vice-chancellor protesting of the university.
• 1792 :
• Installation of the angular stone of the White House, with Washington
• Jean-Christophe Wisch becomes Colonel with the 99e regiment of Infantry
• 1793:
• Beginning of the second vagueness of Profanation of the tomb X of the Basilica Saint-Denis
• Decree of the Convention: “Lyon made the war with freedom, Lyon is not more.”
• 1798 : Revolts burst in Belgium against the French occupant and spread the October 24th.
• 1810 : First Beer festival with Munich
• 1822: The Brésil proclaims its independence
• 1832: Christophe de Jussieu is named prefect of the the Vendée.
• 1898 : Installation of the first town council with Mateur.

XXe century

• 1902 : First football game enters the Austria and the Hungary to Vienna with a result from 5 to 0

• 1903: Inauguration with Clermont-Ferrand of the equestrian statue of Vercingétorix
• 1915: The British nurse Edith Cavell, which helped the prisoners combined to escape by the Netherlands, is carried out with Brussels by the Germans.
• 1920: Georges Carpentier becomes world champion of boxing in the category cruiser-weight.
• 1929 :
• Signature of the Convention of Warsaw, regulating international transport by aircraft
• Mariage of Joan Miró Catalan artist with Palma de Majorque with Pilar Juncosa
• Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister of Australia
• 1933: Acquisition of the island of Alcatraz by the ministry for the justice of the United States to build a federal penitentiary there.
• 1934 : Pierre II goes up on the throne of Yugoslavia
• 1935: Marriage in Rome of Jean de Bourbon, count de Barcelone with the princess Marie of Deux-Siciles
• 1940:
• Any invasion of the the United Kingdom by the German is given to later.
• First flight of the Iliouchine It-2
• 1942:
• Victoire of the American on the Japan board with Guadalcanal
• Prolongation in the north of the Line 5 of the Parisian subway until Church of Puppet
• 1944: Election of Louis de Broglie (prince then duke of Broglie) (1892-1987) with the French Academy
• 1945: The Council of allied control orders the dissolution of the Nazi party in Germany.
• 1950 : With alternative Valence (Spain), of Julio Aparicio and Miguel Báez Espuny known as “Litri”, Spanish Matador S.
• 1956 : London informs Israel of its intention to defend the Jordan if it were attacked.
• 1957 :
• Lester B. Pearson receives the Nobel Prize of peace
• Nuclear accident with Windscale, the United Kingdom (from October 7th to 12th)
• 1960: Nikita Khrouchtchev, general secretary of PCUS and chief of the Soviet government, created sensation with the General meeting of the United Nations, while tambourinant on its desk with its shoe.
• 1962 : Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, announces that it ordered with the army to drive out the Chinese forces of the Indian territory at the border with the Tibet.
• 1963 : First experiment Video in France with the green Grapes of Jean-Christophe Averty
• 1964:
• the first spaceship multiplace the Voskhod I , is launched by the Russian
• Coup d'etat against the general Nguyen Khanh, the army seizes the power in the South Vietnam
• 1968:
• Independence of the Guinea Equatoriale
• Opening of the Olympic Games of summer to Mexico City
• 1969: With Madrid (Spain), in the arenas of Vistalegre, alternate of Curro Vázquez, Spanish Matador.
• 1974 : With alternate Saragossa (Spain), of Jose Ortega Cano, Spanish Matador.
• 1975 : Paul VI canonizes the archbishop Irish Oliver Plunkett
• 1983:
• the Lebanese president Amine Gemayel invites the Moslem and Christian persons in charge with a national reconciliation conference, in order to try to put a term at eight years of war.
• Judgment at 4 years of prison, for corruption, of Kakuei Tanaka, politician Japan board
• 1984: Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister for the the United Kingdom, escapes a spectacular attack.
• 1986 : Teheran announces the destruction of the Iraqi oil complex of Kirkuk.
• 1988 : Setting-up, in France, of the Minimum wages of insertion RMI by the Prime Minister Michel Rocard
• 1990: Kodak is condemned by the court of Boston to pour 900 million dollars with Polaroïd for rape of patent on instantaneous photography.
• 1992 :
• Entered according to Leonid Koutchma like Prime Minister of Ukraine
• With Madrid (Spain), alternate of Óscar Higares, Spanish Matador.
• 1996 : Discovered Asteroid nº 19308 under the name of 1996TO566
• 1997:
• a Greek cargo liner, the " Capetan Tzannis " of 143 meters, coming from the Cape Verde, fails itself in full storm on a beach of Anglet (Yrénées-Atlantiques), letting escape 120 tons from Fioul.
• Victoire of Paul Biya with the presidential elections of the Cameroun
• 1998: The Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic agrees to conform to the requirements of UNO to put an end to the crisis which has lasted for seven months with the Kosovo.
• 1999 :
• Kofi Annan, general secretary of UNO, proclaims like the six billionth living of planet a little boy born with Sarajevo.
• a military coup d'etat to the Pakistan shift the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The general Pervez Musharraf will autoproclamera himself, the 14, chief of the executive and will issue the state of emergency.
• With alternate Saragossa (Spain), of Jesús Millán, Spanish Matador.
• 2000 :
• Gao Xingjian, French of Chinese origin , receives the Nobel Prize literature.
• Attaque commits suicide movement Al-Qaida, an American destroyer, the US Adhesive, is run up against by a stuffed inflatable dinghy of explosives in the port of Aden, with the Yemen: 17 soldiers are killed.
• Fine of the diffusion on Téva of the Television serial Brazil IEN Terra Nostra
• Intensification of violences in the Palestinian Territories: two Israeli reservists are lynched by crowd with Ramallah (the West Bank). In reprisals, the Israelis retort by air raids.

XXIe century

• 2001 : The UNO and its general secretary, Kofi Annan, receive the Nobel Prize of peace.

• 2002 : A bloody murder with the car bomb devastates a bar-discotheque on the tourist island of Bali in Indonesia, making 187 died and more than 300 wounded, among which many Australian and of the foreign nationals.
• 2003 :
• the pope Jean-Paul II opens in the Vatican the festivities 25e birthday of its pontificate, the October 16th.
• German Michael Schumacher gains its sixth championship of the world of Formula-1 and beats the record which it held with Juan Manuel Fangio at the time of the last Grand Prix of the season with Suzuka.
• the Spaniard Igor Astarloa gains the test on line of the championships of the world of cycling over road disputed with Hamilton, with the Canada.
• Two Siamese Twins Egyptian two years, bound by the top of cranium, is separate after a 27 hours operation by American surgeons with Dallas (Texas).

Births

• 1537 : Edouard VI, king of England.
• 1753 : Antoine de Morlhon, religious French, future archbishop of Auch. († January 14th 1828).
• 1792 : Christian Gmelin, German chemist († 1860).
• 1798 : Pierre I {{er}} of Brazil
• 1844: Helena Modjeska, Polish actress († April 8th 1909)
• 1855: Arthur Nikisch, leader and violonist Hungarian
• 1865: James Ramsay MacDonald, Labor leader British
• 1872: Ralph Vaughan Williams, British type-setter
• 1875: Aleister Crowley writer British
• 1896: Eugenio Montale, Italian poet
• 1932: E. Jake Garn, American astronaut
• 1935: Luciano Pavarotti, Tenor Italy N. († September 6th 2007).
• 1938 : Anne Perry, British novelist , specialized in particular in the “detective novel victorien”
• 1943: Frank Alamo, singer French
• 1945: Dawn Clement, actress.
• 1953 : Serge Lepeltier, French politician.
• 1955 : Brigitte Lahaie, French actress
• 1958: Clementine Célarié, French actress
• 1962: Patrick Bosso, humorist and actor French
• 1967: Uncle David, singer and type-setter French
• 1968: Hugh Jackman, Australian actor,
• 1975: Marion Jones, American athlete
• 1975: Jorane, singer and Québécois violoncellist
• 1977: Bode Miller, Ski American or
• 1981: Guillaume Boussès, player of Rugby French
• 1992: Josh Hutcherson, American actor

Death

•        54: poisoning of the Roman Emperor Claude

•     741: Charles Martel, mayor of the palate of Austrasie.
• 1328 : Clemence of Hungary, queen of France, widow of Louis X '' Hutin ''. (° 1293).
• 1574 : Louise-Marie de Léprouve, known as Fabienne de Lanneau, mistress of the king Henri II
• 1590: Kanô Eitoku, Japanese painter (° 1543)
• 1646: François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (° April 12th 1579)
• 1692: Giovanni Battista Vitali, violonist and type-setter Italy N
• 1844: Claude Tillier, lampoonist and novelist French
• 1863: Andrei Mureşanu Rumanian poet of Transylvania
• 1924: Anatole France, French novelist
• 1971: Gene Vincent
• 1985: Alex Guma, writer
• 1996: Rene Lacoste, former champion French of Tennis, (° 1904).
• 1998 : Matthew Shepard, American student (assassinated) (° 1976)
• 2000: Igor Correa Luna, violoncellist and leader
• 2002: Audrey Mestre, French apneist
• 2003: Bill Shoemaker, jockey member of the Temple of famous the, it only counted with him 8.883 victories
• 2006: Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian realizer.

Celebrations

• Discovered of America by Christophe Colomb.
• Spain: national Festival, Day of the Hispanité.
• Guinea Equatoriale: national Festival.
• Ecuador: Day of the date.
• Bolivia: Celebrates of the Virgin of the Rosary with Cochabamba.

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Wilfrid of York († 709), bishop.
• Spérie of Cahors (8th century), still called virgin Espérie or Exupérie.
• Edwin de Northumbrie († 633), king in England.

See too

• October 12th in sport
• October 12th in the railroads

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