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October 12 is the 285^th (286^th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining until the end of the year.

General

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  1492 - First landing of Christopher Columbus in America
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  1986 - R.E.M. Ticket Stub, St Louis MO
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  1920 - A huge crowd gathers outside the New York Times building in Times Square to hear play-by-play bulletins of the World Series between the Cleveland Indians and the Brooklyn Robins
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  1945 - Dwight D. Eisenhower at Prague Ruzyne Airport

Births

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  Martie Maguire

Deaths

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  1961 - West German sign protesting the death of Kurt Lichtenstein: "Here on 12 October 1961 a German was sneakily murdered by Germans on Ulbricht's command!"
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  1915 - Edith Cavell

Holidays and observances

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  Wilfrid
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  Radim Gaudentius

External links

• "On This Day". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved on 2015-06-22.