Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on October 12 throughout history.
The 2022 Bratislava shooting was an attack that occurred on 12 October 2022 outside Tepláreň, a gay bar in Bratislava, Slovakia. A 19-year-old perpetrator shot and killed two peop…
2022 Bratislava shooting, killing 3 (including the perpetrator) and injuring one. The shooting occurred outside of a…
Typhoon Hagibis, known in Japan as the Reiwa 1 East Japan Typhoon , was an extremely large, powerful and costly tropical cyclone that caused widespread destruction in Japan and is…
Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.
Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in the marathon and formerly specialized in the 5000 metres. Kipchoge is the 2016 and 2020 Olympic marathon champion, …
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…
1031 Canal Street was the site of a partially collapsed 190-foot-tall (58 m) multi-use high-rise building in New Orleans, Louisiana, located at 1031 Canal Street in the Central Bu…
The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing three workers and injuring 30…
Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank, is a member of the British royal family. She is the younger daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, and a niece of King C…
Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through …
The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.
The collapse of the Space Building occurred on the night of October 12, 2013, when Tower 6 of the Space Building, a residential apartment complex, collapsed in Medellín, Colombia,…
An apartment building collapse in Medellín, Colombia results in the deaths of twelve people.
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. A supranational union with a total area of 4,233,255 km2 (1,634…
The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
Yle TV2 is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Yle. TV2 was launched in 1965 as the successor to the former television channels TES-TV (Tesvisio) and Tamvisio and b…
The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode…
Shenzhou 6 was the second human spaceflight of the Chinese space program, launched on October 12, 2005, on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The She…
The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.
On 12 October 2002, three terrorist attacks took place in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. 2 suicide bombings occurred in two popular nightspots in K…
Terrorists detonate bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 and wounding over 200.
The 2000 Ramallah lynching was an attack that took place early during the Second Intifada on 12 October 2000 in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, when a Palestinian crowd of passing…
Two Israeli reservists are lynched by a Palestinian mob at the police station of Ramallah.
USS Cole (DDG-67) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer home-ported in Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. Cole is named in honor of Marine Sergeant Darrell S. Col…
The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and…
Pervez Musharraf was a Pakistani politician and military officer who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. He overthrew Nawaz Sharif's government in the 199…
Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
Abkhazia, officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, which is internationally recognised by most countries as part of Georgia. It …
The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Algeria. This is an incomplete list; the total number of massacres reported is far more numerous.
The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.
New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It comprises two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island —and over 700 smaller islands. It is the…
New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led…
The Magellan spacecraft was a 1,035-kilogram (2,282 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989. Its mission objectives were to map the surface of Venus by using synth…
The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 was a Fokker F-28 flight of Iran Aseman Airlines operating on the Isfahan–Tehran route in Iran. The flight crashed near the town of Natanz on Octob…
Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 crashes near Natanz, Iran, killing all 66 people on board.
The 1992 Cairo earthquake, also known as the Dahshur earthquake, occurred at 15:09 local time on 12 October, with an epicenter in the Western Desert near Dahshur, Giza, 35 km (22 …
A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.