Historical Events on October 12.

1. 1492, 12th October: Christopher Columbus arrived in the Bahamas in the West Indies. He understood that we had reached India.

2. 1823, 12th October: Charles McIntosh of Scotland sold the first raincoat.

3. 1847, 12th October: Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske started Siemens AG Company.

4. 1850, 12th October: America’s first women’s medical college opened.

5. 1871, 12th October: In India, the British government criminalized 161 castes and tribes under the Criminal Tribes Act.

6. 1901, 12th October: US President Theodore Roosevelt officially renamed the executive mansion the White House.

7. 1960, 12th October: Soviet President Nikita Khrushchev knocked on the table to make his point while addressing the United Nations.

8. 1964, 12th October: For the first time in the world, the Soviet Union sent astronauts into space on this day without wearing a spacesuit.

9. 1968, 12th October: The 19th Olympic Games began in Mexico City, Mexico.

10. 1983, 12th October: Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei was sentenced to four years in prison for accepting a bribe of 200, 000 US dollars from Lockheed Corporation.

11. 1988, 12th October: Guerrillas attacked an Indian Peace Corps convoy at the University of Jaffna to capture an LTTE leader. The heavy loss of the Indian squad.

12. 1998, 12th October: Pallavi Shah of Kolhapur, India, won the 33rd Chess Olympiad and gets the title of International Woman Master.

13. 1999, 12th October: Pakistan’s military general Parvesh Musharraf took over power of the country by overthrowing then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

14. 2000, 12th October: The Millennium World Food Prize was awarded to Indian plant geneticist Dr. Surinder K. Vasal and Mexican botanist Dr. Evangelina Villegas for developing a protein-rich maize variety.

15. 2001, 12th October: Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

16. 2019, 12th October: Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya became the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna. 

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 12.

1. 1537: Edward VI of England, King of England, Tudor dynasty.

2. 1860: Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, the founder of Gyro Compass.

3. 1866: Ramsay MacDonald, British statesman

4. prime minister of the United Kingdom.

5. 1868: August Horch, founder of the Audi Motor Company.

6. 1875: Aleister Crowley, English poet, mountaineer, and occultist.

7. 1911: Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer, cricket critic, businessman and social activist.

8. 1918: MA Chidambaram, Indian Industrialist, cricket administrator, and BCCI President. 

9. 1919: Vijaya Raje Scindia, Indian politician.

10. 1921: Jayant Sridhar and Jayantrao Tilak, an Indian leader of the United Maharashtra Movement.

11. 1922: Shanta Shelke, Indian poet and lyricist.

12. 1938: Nida Fazli, a prominent Indian Hindi and Urdu poet, lyricist and dialogue writer.

13. 1968: Hugh Jackman, Australian actor, and producer.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 12.

1. 1967: Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist leader, eminent parliamentarian, and writer.

2. 1979: Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist, and chemist.

3. 1996: Rene Lacoste, French lawn tennis player, and father of polo t-shirts.

4. 1997: John Denver, an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian, whose greatest commercial success was as a solo singer.

5. 2011: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language.

6. 2012: Sukhdev Singh Kang, Indian judge and politician.

12-October-1860

Sir Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, passed away at the age of 73.

12-October-1907

Durgaprasad Mandelia, famous merchant and industrialist, was born.

12-October-1911

Vijay Madhavji Merchant Thackersey, cricketer (all-time great Indian batsman), was born in Bombay.

12-October-1921

Jayant Shridhar Tilak, great journalist, was born at Poona.

12-October-1935

Shivraj Vishwanath Patil, former Speaker of Lok Sabha, was born.

12-October-1946

Ashok Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (son of Vinoo, batted for India 1969-78), was born in Bombay.

12-October-1952

Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s vs New Zealand.

12-October-1961

Sureshchandra Banerjee, great politician, died.

12-October-1967

National Conference, the Working Committee of Jammu and Kashmir, unanimously passed the proposal to a permanent merger of the state with India.

12-October-1967

Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia also known as "Dauntless Dr. Lohia", freedom fighter, social reformer and socialist leader, died at the Willingdon Nursing Home, New Delhi. He had founded the 'Praja Socialist Party' in 1952.

12-October-1976

Kumarnath Bagchi, famous Indian chemist, died.

12-October-1976

Indian Airlines Caravelle crashed after take off from Bombay.

12-October-1990

Government of India announces a 15\% cut in oil consumption, exempting LPG and kerosene.

12-October-1991

Sonia Gandhi declineed to contest from Amethi.

12-October-1993

National Environment Council with PM as chairperson set up.

12-October-1993

RBI liberalises credit and monetary policy.

12-October-1993

The first operational sortie in Somalia was undertaken with the Brigade Commander and his Deputy on board to recede the area of responsibility in and around Baidoa which was to be the bridage's permanent location.

12-October-1995

Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI.

12-October-1997

India Seniors lift Challenger Trophy cricket title.

12-October-1997

Leander-Mahesh claim sixth doubles title of the year when they bagged the Heinekin Open ATP Tour series doubles in Singapore.

12-October-1997

Queen Elizebeth II, accompanied by husband Duke of Edinburgh Philips, arrived in New Delhi on a week-long state visit to mark India's 50th anniversary of Independence.

12-October-1998

Sushma Swaraj is sworn in Delhi Chief Minister in place of Mr. Sahib Singh Verma.

12-October-1999

Sachidanand Sakshi, former BJP MP, joined SP.

12-October-2000

A Special Court sentences former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Home Minister Buta Singh to undergo three years rigorous imprisonment and pay a fine of Rs. 2 lakhs each in the 'JMM MPs' bribery case'.