• Oct 12 2007

    19 Years ago

    In Santa Clarita, California, the colision of two semi-trucks in a truck bypass tunnel in the Newhall Pass interchange section of Interstate 5 sets off a chain reaction crash involving over 30 vehicles. The crash causes a major fire within the tunnel. Three people die and ten are injured.


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  • Oct 12 2005

    21 Years ago

    The second People's Republic of China human spaceflight ''Shenzhou 6'' launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Haishèng for five days in orbit.


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  • Oct 12 2002

    24 Years ago

    Terrorists 2002 Bali terrorist bombing in Paddy's Pub and the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.


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  • Oct 12 2000

    26 Years ago

    The USS Cole (DDG 67) is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two USS Cole bombing, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39


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  • Oct 12 1999

    27 Years ago

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


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  • Oct 12 1999

    27 Years ago

    The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.


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  • Oct 12 1997

    29 Years ago

    Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.


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  • Oct 12 1994

    32 Years ago

    NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14).


  • Oct 12 1991

    35 Years ago

    Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by republic's Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.


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  • Oct 12 1988

    38 Years ago

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


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  • Oct 12 1986

    40 Years ago

    Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China


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  • Oct 12 1984

    42 Years ago

    Brighton hotel bombing: Margaret Thatcher survives an provisional IRA bomb, which shredded her bathroom barely two minutes after she had left it.


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  • Oct 12 1983

    43 Years ago

    Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed Corporation and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.


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  • Oct 12 1979

    47 Years ago

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


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  • Oct 12 1976

    50 Years ago

    The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to the late Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party of China.


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  • Oct 12 1972

    54 Years ago

    En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, a Race (classification of human beings) brawl involving more than 100 sailors breaks out aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)


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  • Oct 12 1970

    56 Years ago

    Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas


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  • Oct 12 1968

    58 Years ago

    Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain


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  • Oct 12 1967

    59 Years ago

    Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the Congress of the United States for peace initiatives were futile because of North Vietnam's opposition


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  • Oct 12 1964

    62 Years ago

    The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits


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