On this day in history
October 12
American
1492Christopher Columbus makes landfall in the Bahamas, the first recorded European contact with the Americas sinc…
Christopher Columbus makes landfall in the Bahamas, the first recorded European contact with the Americas since the Vikings.
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2000Al Qaeda suicide bombers ram an explosives laden boat into the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 American sailors.
Al Qaeda suicide bombers ram an explosives laden boat into the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 American sailors.
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World
2002Islamist terrorists bomb two nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 people, most of them young foreign tou…
Islamist terrorists bomb two nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 people, most of them young foreign tourists.
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1960Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly bangs his shoe on his desk at the United Nations in a famous outbur…
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly bangs his shoe on his desk at the United Nations in a famous outburst, though witnesses dispute exactly what happened.
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1968Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
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