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The 12t o October is the 285t day o the year (286t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 80 days bidin.
Events
Christopher Columbus reachin the Caribbean in 1492
1931: Christ the Redeemer statue
Births
Ramsay MacDonald
Luciano Pavarotti
- 1350 – Dmitry Donskoy, Prince o Moscow (d. 1389)
- 1537 – Edward VI o Ingland, King o Ingland an Ireland (d. 1553)
- 1798 – Pedro I o Brazil, Emperor o Brazil an (as Pedro IV) King o Portugal (d. 1834)
- 1811 – Alexander Bain, Scots inventor an ingineer (d. 1877)
- 1865 – Arthur Harden, Inglis biochemist (d. 1940)
- 1866 – Ramsay MacDonald, Scots jurnalist an politeecian, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1937)
- 1872 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, Inglis componer (d. 1958)
- 1875 – Aleister Crowley, Inglis occultist (d. 1947)
- 1887 – Paula von Preradović, Croatie-Austrick author an poet (d. 1951)
- 1891 – Fumimaro Konoe, Prime meenister o Japan (d. 1945)
- 1896 – Eugenio Montale, Italian writer (d. 1981)
- 1899 – Duncan Walker, Scots fitbawer (d. 1963)
- 1905 – Barney Battles Jr., Scots fitbawer (d. 1979)
- 1926 – Allan Brown, Scots fitbawer (d. 2011)
- 1929 – Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-Scots telly presenter (d. 2007)
- 1934 – Richard Meier, American airchitect an abstract airtist
- 1935 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007)
- 1956 – Allan Evans, Scots fitbawer
- 1960 – Peter Grant, Scots politeecian
- 1966 – Rhona Martin, Scots curler
- 1968 – Hugh Jackman, Australian actor
- 1985 – Greig Laidlaw, Scots rugby union player
- 1992 – Josh Hutcherson, American actor
- 1994 – Liam Polworth, Scots fitbawer
- 1995 – Liam Lindsay, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
- 633 – Edwin o Northumbrie
- 638 – Pape Honorius I
- 642 – Pape John IV
- 1576 – Maximilian II, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1527)
- 1730 – Frederick IV o Denmark (b. 1671)
- 1845 – Elizabeth Fry, Inglis social activist (b. 1780)
- 1870 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1807)
- 1915 – Edith Cavell, Inglis nourice (b. 1865)
- 1924 – Anatole France, French writer (b. 1844)
- 1933 – Joseph Lindsay, Scots fitbawer (b. 1858)
- 1985 – Johnny Olson, American television announcer (b. 1910)
- 1997 – John Denver, American sangster (b. 1943)
- 2011 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, creatit the C programmin leid (b. 1941)
Halidays
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