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| October 12th |
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| About October 12th is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. October 12th is Columbus Day and Freethought Day in the United States. Births 1576 - Thomas Dudley, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 1919 - Doris Miller, U.S. Navy cook, Pearl Harbor hero 1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian operatic tenor ("The Three Tenors") 1947 - Chris Wallace, journalist (Fox News Sunday) 1970 - Kirk Cameron, actor, activist (Growing Pains) 1975 - Marion Jones, track and field Olympian 1992 - Taylor Horn, singer, songwriter, actress 1992 - Josh Hutcherson, actor (RV, Journey to the Center of the Earth) Deaths 1870 - Robert E. Lee, Confederate Army General 1997 - John Denver, singer, musician ("Rocky Mountain High") Events 1692 - Massachusetts Governor William Phips ends the Salem Witch Trials. 1938 - Production begins on the movie The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland. 1998 - University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard dies as the result of an anti-gay assault. 2000 - 17 U.S. Navy crewman are killed and 39 wounded when suicide bombers attack the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen. |
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