12 October

Notable Births

Iris Apatow

b. 2002

American actress (born 2002)

Jongho

b. 2000

South Korean singer and actor (born 2000)

Ferdia Walsh-Peelo

b. 1999

Irish actor and musician (born 1999)

Owen Watkin

b. 1996

Wales international rugby union player

Sean Monahan

b. 1994

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1994)

Olivia Smoliga

b. 1994

American swimmer (born 1994)

Ketel Marte

b. 1993

Dominican baseball player (born 1993)

Josh Hutcherson

b. 1992

American actor (born 1992)

Nicolao Dumitru

b. 1991

Italian footballer

Henri Lansbury

b. 1990

English footballer (born 1990)

Anna Ohmiya

b. 1989

Japanese curler (born 1989)

Sam Whitelock

b. 1988

New Zealand rugby union footballer

Calum Scott

b. 1988

English singer and songwriter (born 1988)

Marvin Ogunjimi

b. 1987

Belgian footballer (born 1987)

Giannis Maniatis

b. 1986

Greek footballer (born 1986)

Cristhian Stuani

b. 1986

Uruguayan footballer (born 1986)

Tyler Blackburn

b. 1986

American actor and singer (born 1986)

Michelle Carter (athlete)

b. 1985

American shot putter (born 1985)

Mike Green (ice hockey, born 1985)

b. 1985

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1985)

Anna Iljuštšenko

b. 1985

Estonian high jumper

Notable Deaths

Jackie Burch

d. 2025

American casting director (1951–2025)

Jackmaster

d. 2024

Scottish DJ and record producer (1986–2024)

Ka (rapper)

d. 2024

American rapper (1972–2024)

Lilly Ledbetter

d. 2024

American activist (1938–2024)

Tito Mboweni

d. 2024

South African politician (1959–2024)

Alvin Rakoff

d. 2024

Canadian film and television director (1927–2024)

Alex Salmond

d. 2024

First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014

Baba Siddique

d. 2024

Indian politician (1958–2024)

Luis Garavito

d. 2023

Colombian serial killer and sex offender (1957–2023)

Conchata Ferrell

d. 2020

American actress (1943–2020)

Roberta McCain

d. 2020

American political matriarch (1912–2020)

Abdallah Kigoda

d. 2015

Tanzanian politician

Joan Leslie

d. 2015

American actress (1925–2015)

Ali Mazrui

d. 2014

Kenyan academic (1933–2014)

Graham Miles

d. 2014

English snooker player (1941–2014)

Roberto Telch

d. 2014

Argentine footballer

Oscar Hijuelos

d. 2013

American novelist

Hans Wilhelm Longva

d. 2013

Norwegian diplomat

James Elliott Coyne

d. 2012

2nd governor of the Bank of Canada

Norm Grabowski

d. 2012

American hot rod builder and actor (1933–2012)

On This Day in History

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2022

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.

2022 Bratislava shooting

2019

Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.

Typhoon Hagibis

2019

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.

Eliud Kipchoge

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2019

The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing three workers and injuring 30 others.

1031 Canal Street

2018

Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Princess Eugenie

2017

The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.

UNESCO

2013

An apartment building collapse in Medellín, Colombia results in the deaths of twelve people.

Collapse of the Space Building

2012

The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.

European Union

2010

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.

Yle TV2

2005

The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.

Shenzhou 6

2002

Terrorists detonate bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 and wounding over 200.

2002 Bali bombings

2000

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.

USS Cole (DDG-67)

1999

Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.

Pervez Musharraf

1999

The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.

Abkhazia

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1997

The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.

List of massacres in Algeria

1996

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.

New Zealand