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On This Day In History for October 12, 2016
This is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining in 2016.
- It was on this date in 1492 that Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies.
- 434 years ago today, Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- It was 217 years ago today that Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters.
- November 12, 1823, Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
- 169 years ago today, German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG, the largest engineering company in Europe.
- The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage on this date in 1892.
- That same date in 1928 An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston.
- The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on this date in 1933.
- Also today in 1960, Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe.
- It was 52 years ago today that 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.
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published 37 years ago today.
- 22 years ago today, The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
- October 12, 2005, The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- French pharmacist and entomologist Étienne Louis Geoffroy born on this date in 1725.
- Also born that same date in 1725 German chemist and pharmacist Christian Gmelin.
- Born October 12, 1860, American engineer and businessman, and co-invented the gyrocompass, Ember Ambrose Sperry.
- The creator of Gumby, Art Clokey was born today in 1921.
- Jean Nidetch, the co-founder of Weight Watchers was born that same date in 1923.
- The man who co-developed Simula, Norwegian computer scientist and academic, Ole-Johan Dahl was born on this date in 1931.
- Luciano Pavarotti, would have been 81 today.
- Notorious Venezuelan terrorist and murderer, Carlos the Jackal is 67.
- The man for which the movie “Behind Enemy Lines” was based, pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is 51.
- and finally Wolverine, Hugh Jackman is 48.
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And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 12, 2016
News
- Germany calls for a ban on combustion engine cars by 2030
- Boeing chief believes he can reach Mars before Musk does
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- An average person normally blinks 5 times a second, but when using a computer he/she blinks only 3 times a minute.
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