37 events · 20 births · 20 deaths · 8 observances. From 1406 to 2025.
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2022 Bratislava shooting, killing 3 (including the perpetrator) and injuring one. The shooting occurred outside of a gay bar in Bratislava known as Tepláreň. Two people (excluding the perpetrator) died as a result of the shooting: Juraj Vankulič, a non-binary person, and Matúš Horváth, a bisexual man. The perpetrator (Juraj Krajčík) was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot the morning after the attack.
October 12 is the 285th day of the year. These facts are computed from the calendar, not copied from anywhere.
A dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
2022 Bratislava shooting, killing 3 (including the perpetrator) and injuring one. The shooting occurred outside of a gay bar in Bratislava known as Tepláreň. Two people (excluding the perpetrator) died as a result of the shooting: Juraj Vankulič, a non-binary person, and Matúš Horváth, a bisexual man. The perpetrator (Juraj Krajčík) was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot the morning after the attack.
Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.
The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing three workers and injuring 30 others.
Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.
Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.
Twelve people were killed in an apartment-building collapse in Medellín, leading to new construction laws being passed in Colombia.
The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.
Terrorists detonate bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 and wounding over 200.
The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.
New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First.
Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 crashes near Natanz, Iran, killing all 66 people on board.
The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 or 5.9 struck south of Cairo, Egypt, killing 545 people.
Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in a failed attempt to assassinate British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.
Typhoon Tip, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, reached a worldwide record-low sea-level pressure of 870 mbar (25.69 inHg) in the western Pacific Ocean.
While in prison for murder, boxer James Scott defeated Eddie "The Flame" Gregory, a leading light heavyweight.
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly pounded his shoe on a desk during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong.
Japan Socialist Party leader Inejirō Asanuma (pictured) was assassinated during a live television recording by a far-right ultra-nationalist using a short sword.
Il Canto degli Italiani is adopted as national anthem by the newly formed Italian Republic.
The United States Department of Justice acquired a military prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, to be transformed into the last-resort Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
The iron lung (example pictured), a type of medical ventilator, was used for the first time at the Boston Children's Hospital to treat an eight-year-old girl paralyzed by polio.
First World War: New Zealand troops suffered more than 2,000 casualties, including more than 800 deaths, in the First Battle of Passchendaele, making it the nation's largest loss of life in one day.
A statue of Austin Blair (pictured) was dedicated in a ceremony that attracted up to 30,000 people to Lansing, Michigan.
The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States was first used in public schools to coincide with the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
The Uddevalla Suffrage Association was founded in Uddevalla, Sweden, with the purpose of bringing about universal suffrage.
Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin became the first woman to make a parachute descent, falling 900 metres (3,000 ft) in the gondola of a hot air balloon.
The Peasants' War began in Overmere, Southern Netherlands, with peasants taking up arms against the French occupiers.
Believing he had reached the East Indies, Christopher Columbus made landfall on an island in the Caribbean, sparking a series of events that led to the European colonization of the Americas.
Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reached Seoul after having set out from Java four months before.
A notable person born on this day. Each links to a person page with their dates and story.
Brett Cooper, American political commentator, actress, and social media personality
A notable person who died on this day.
Alex Salmond, Scottish economist and politician, First Minister of Scotland (born 1954)
Abdallah Kigoda, Tanzanian politician, 8th Tanzanian Minister of Industry and Trade (born 1953)
Ali Mazrui, Kenyan-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (born 1933)
A holiday, feast day, awareness day or national day observed every year on this date.
Christian feast day: Edith Cavell and Elizabeth Fry (Church of England)
Christian feast day: Seraphin of Montegranaro
Christian feast day: Our Lady of the Pillar (Fiestas del Pilar)
Christian feast day: Wilfrid of Ripon
Christian feast day: Our Lady of Aparecida
Christian feast day: Fiacc
Christian feast day: Radim Gaudentius (Czech Republic)
Christian feast day: Blessed Louis Brisson
Earliest: Chen Yanxiang (1406). Most recent: Jackie Burch (2025).
October 12 is the 285th day of the year, with 80 days left after it.
October 12 falls under Libra (September 23 – October 22), a air sign ruled by Venus. The birthstone for the month is Opal or Tourmaline.
We record 85 entries for October 12: 37 events · 20 births · 20 deaths · 8 observances. From 1406 to 2025.
Darci Lynne (2004) is among the notable births on October 12. The births section lists the rest.
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