12 October - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on October 12, the day number in a year is 285 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 286. October 12 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
October 12 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1398 | The Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the GrandMaster of the Teutonic Knights Konrad von Jungingen signed the Treaty ofSalynas, the third attempt to cede Samogitia to the Knights. |
| 1492 | Believing he had reached the East Indies, Christopher Columbusmade landfall on an island in the Caribbean, sparking a series of eventsthat led to the European colonization of the Americas. |
| 1711 | Carell VI was crowned Habsburg Roman Catholic Emperor. |
| 1730 | Christian VI succeeded Frederick IV as King of Denmark. |
| 1776 | The British brigade began guarding the Thorg Necas Road in the Bronx. |
| 1792 | Christopher Columbus, who discovered America, was dedicated to the first memorial in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 1792 | The first Columbus Day celebrations were held in the United States in New York City, 300 years after their arrival in the New World. |
| 1798 | The Flemish rebellion against the French-occupied Boerenkridge began. |
| 1799 | Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse became the first woman to make aparachute jump, when she descended 900 m (3,000 ft) from a hot-air balloon. |
| 1799 | Janné Genevieve Lubrosse became the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute from a height of 900 meters. |
| 1815 | The former King of Naples sentenced Joachim Murat to death. |
| 1822 | Pedro-I of Brazil was declared the Constitutional Emperor of Brazil. |
| 1847 | Werner von Siemens, a German inventor, founded Siemens &Halske, which later became Siemens AG, the largest engineering companyin Europe. |
| 1847 | German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founded Siemens AG and Halske Ko. |
| 1850 | The first women's medical school, the Women's Medical College of Pens) was opened. |
| 1854 | Lincoln University was founded as the Ashmun Institute. |
| 1871 | The Criminal Tribes Act entered into force in British India,giving law enforcement sweeping powers to arrest, control, and monitorthe movements of the members of 160 specific ethnic or socialcommunities that were defined as 'habitually criminal'. |
| 1871 | The British Government enacted the Criminal Tribes Act under which 160 local communities were declared to be criminals. |
| 1879 | British troops captured Kabul and Afghanistan. |
| 1892 | The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States was first used inpublic schools to coincide with the opening of the World's ColumbianExposition in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1898 | The first city council was established in Matiur. |
| 1901 | US President Theodore Roosevelt changed the name of Rashtrapati Bhavan from Executive Manson to the White House. |
| 1909 | The football team was established in Curitiba, Brazil. |
| 1910 | John D. opened his first 75-bed hospital at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research in New York. |
| 1915 | A German firing squad executed British nurse Edith Cavell forhelping Allied soldiers to escape occupied Belgium. |
| 1917 | First World War-New Zealand troops suffered 2,735 casualties,including 845 deaths, in the First Battle of Passchendaele, making itthe nation's largest loss of life in one day. |
| 1928 | An 'iron lung' medical ventilator, designed by Philip Drinker and colleagues at Children's Hospital, Boston, was used for the first time to treat poliomyelitis. |
| 1928 | For the first time, a machine named \ 'Iron Lung \ was used for a child at Children's Hospital in Boston, USA. |
| 1937 | Federal agents execute Al Brady and members of his gang in a shootout at Bangor, Maine on Columbus Day in 1937. |
| 1945 | The Nazi party is asked to disperse by The Allied Control Council. It has been warned that any attempt at its restoration in any form would be considered to be a criminal offense. |
| 1945 | The Communists won the Shangdang campaign. |
| 1960 | Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma was assassinatedon live television by a man using a samurai sword. |
| 1964 | For the first time in the world, the Soviet Union sent astronauts to space without wearing a space suit. |
| 1966 | The Nobel Peace Prize for Medicine has been presented to two American doctors, Francis Peyton Rousand Charles B Huggins. They dedicated their lives to battling Cancer. |
| 1967 | Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a fighter, fierce thinker and socialist politician of India's freedom struggle, died. |
| 1968 | The 19th Summer Olympics Games of the XIX Olympiad, begin in Mexico City, Mexico. |
| 1968 | Equatorial Guinea, a country located in Central Africa, gained independence from Spain and this day was declared the national day of this country. |
| 1968 | Spain declared Equatorial Guinea as its independent. |
| 1982 | Thorborn Faldin became the Prime Minister of Sweden. |
| 1984 | The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at theGrand Hotel in Brighton, England, in a failed attempt to assassinateBritish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and most of her cabinet. |
| 1988 | Sri Lankan Civil War-Indian troops mounted a failed assault onJaffna University, which served as the Tamil Tigers' militaryheadquarters. |
| 1988 | The Birchandra Manu massacre took place in Tripura, India. |
| 1991 | Iraq's Atomic Program, has been banned by, The United Nations Security Council in order to stop it from being exploited and used as a cover for secret weapons laboratories. |
| 1992 | A 5.8 MB earthquake struck south of Cairo, Egypt, killing 545people. |
| 1992 | The earthquake in Egypt's capital, Cairo, killed about 510 people. |
| 1992 | The Cairo earthquake in 1993 killed 543 people and injured more than 6,500. |
| 1997 | The massacre on the Falls Road block of Sidi Dawood city in Algeria killed 43 people. |
| 1998 | The US Parliament passed the online copyright bill. |
| 1999 | Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf led a military coup againstthe government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. |
| 2000 | Two suicide bombers attacked the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Colewhile it was at anchor in Aden, Yemen, killing 17 of its crew membersand injuring 39 others. |
| 2000 | The spacecraft 'Discovery' launched from Florida. |
| 2002 | A terrorist attack at a nightclub in Bali killed 202 people. |
| 2004 | Pakistan test-fired the Gauri-1 missile. |
| 2005 | The People's Republic of China launched the human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6 spacecraft with Fei Junlong and Niè Hǎishèng spending five days in it. |
| 2008 | Alphonsa Muttathupadathu, a nun from Kerala, sets an example by becoming the first female saint in the Roman Catholic Church. |
| 2008 | Sister Alphonsa of Kerala became the first female saint of India. |
| 2009 | India successfully test fires its indigenously developed medium range missiles, Prithvi II, in the eastern state of Orissa. |
| 2010 | FaceBook receives a letter from Greenpeace containing half a million signatures asking the company to cut its ties to coal based electricity. |
| 2013 | Two million people face loss of power and five people are killed when Typhoon Narihits the Philippines. |
| 2014 | Social activist Evo Morales was elected as the President of Bolivia for the third consecutive time. |
| 2014 | Evo Morales was again elected President of Bolivia. |
Famous Birthdays of October 12:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1970 | Kirk Cameron / Actor / United States of America |
| 1906 | Joe Cronin / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1962 | Carlos Bernard / Actor / United States of America |
| 1911 | Vijay Merchant / Cricketer / India |
| 1970 | Patrick Musimu / Diver / Belgium |
| 1944 | Angela Rippon / Author / United Kingdom |
| 1490 | Bernardo Pisano / Writer / Italy |
| 1987 | Marvin Ogunjimi / Footballer / Belgium |
| 1985 | Anna Iljuštšenko / Jumper / Estonia |
| 1978 | Stefan Binder / Footballer / Germany |
| 1917 | Roque Máspoli / Footballer / Uruguay |
| 1983 | Carlton Cole / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 1968 | Paul Harragon / Rugby Player / Australia |
| 1996 | Riechedly Bazoer / Footballer / Netherlands |
| 1932 | Ned Jarrett / Racing Car Driver / United States of America |
| 1945 | Aurore Clément / Actress / France |
| 1946 | Ashok Mankad / Cricketer / India |
| 1920 | Christopher Soames / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1950 | Dave Freudenthal / Politician / United States of America |
| 1956 | David Vanian / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 1866 | Ramsay MacDonald / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1687 | Sylvius Leopold Weiss / Composer / Germany |
| 1970 | Tanyon Sturtze / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1963 | Satoshi Kon / Writer / Japan |
| 1935 | Shivraj V Patil / Politician / India |
| 1979 | Steve Borthwick / Rugby Player / United Kingdom |
| 1874 | Jimmy Burke / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1576 | Thomas Dudley / Politician / United States of America |
| 1868 | August Horch / Engineer / Germany |
| 1963 | Raimond Aumann / Footballer / Germany |
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Read in Hindi : 12 अक्टूबर की प्रमुख ऐतिहासिक घटनाएं