October 12
1492 - Christopher Columbus landed in present-day Bahamas.
1792 - The first recorded U.S. celebration of Columbus Day was held to mark the tricentennial of Christopher Columbus’ landing.
1810 - The German festival Oktoberfest was first held in Munich to celebrate the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
1870 - Gen. Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia at age 63.
1933 - Bank robber John Dillinger escaped from a jail in Allen County, Ohio, with the help of his gang, who killed the sheriff, Jess Sarber.
1942 - During World War II, American naval forces defeated the Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance. Attorney General Francis Biddle announced during a Columbus Day celebration at Carnegie Hall in New York that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.
1960 - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev created a disturbance at the U.N. General Assembly by pounding his desk with a shoe.
1964 - The Soviet Union launched Voskhod I, the first space capsule to carry three people into orbit.
1973 - President Richard Nixon announced the nomination of House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford (R-Michigan) to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.
1976 - It was announced in China that Hua Guofeng had been named to succeed the late Mao Zedong as chairman of the Communist Party; it was also announced that Mao’s widow and three others, known as the “Gang of Four,” had been arrested.
1984 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people.
1986 - Superpower talks between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, ended in stalemate.
1997 - Singer John Denver was killed in the crash of his privately built aircraft in Monterey Bay, California; he was 53.
1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, died five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie.
1999 - Pakistan's military overthrew the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
2000 - Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed with a terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.
2002 - A bomb destroyed a nightclub in Bali, killing 202 people, most of them being tourists.
2007 - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming.
2011 - A Nigerian al-Qaida operative pleaded guilty to trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear minutes before the plane landed in Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was later sentenced to life in prison.)
2016 - Wells Fargo announced that its embattled CEO, John Stumpf, was stepping down as the nation’s second-largest bank found itself roiled by a scandal over its sales practices.
2017 - President Donald Trump lashed out at hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico, saying the federal government can’t keep sending help “forever” and suggesting that the U.S. territory was to blame for its financial struggles.
2020 - At the start of fast-tracked Senate confirmation hearings, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett presented her approach to the law as conservative and fair, while Democrats cast her as a threat to Americans’ health care coverage during the coronavirus pandemic.
2020 - Facebook said it would ban posts that deny or distort the Holocaust.
2020 - Roberta McCain, the mother of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, died at age 108.
Birthdays
29 - Josh Hutcherson (actor)
35 - Marcus T. Paulk (actor)
35 - Tyler Blackburn (actor)
38 - Erica Dixon (reality star)
38 - Katie Piper (TV host)
40 - Brian J. Smith (actor)
44 - Bode Miller (skier)
51 - Kirk Cameron (actor)
53 - Adam Rich (actor)
53 - Hugh Jackman (actor)
56 - Bob Schneider (singer)
59 - Claude McKnight (singer)
59 - Carlos Bernard (actor)
66 - Jane Siberry (singer)
71 - Susan Anton (actress/singer)
74 - Chris Wallace (broadcast journalist)
86 - Sam Moore (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 12
1853 - John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans.
1895 - Nebraska opened the season with a 38-0 win over Sioux City Athletic Club.
1901 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 19-0.
1907 - Nebraska defeats Grinnell 30-4.
1907 - The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers in five games to win their first World Series.
1912 - Nebraska defeated Kansas State 30-6.
1916 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in five games to win the World Series.
1920 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the World Series.
1929 - Nebraska defeats Syracuse 13-6.
1935 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1940 - Nebraska defeats Indianus 13-7.
1946 - Cockeye defeats Nebraska 21-7.
1957 - #20 Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 34-0.
1963 - Air Force defeats Nebraska 17-13.
1967 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Boston Red Sox in seven games to win the World Series.
1968 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Mexico City, the first Games to be held in Latin America.
1968 - #6 Kansas defeats #9 Nebraska 23-13.
1974 - Missouri upsets #5 Nebraska 21-10.
1979 - Chris Ford of the Boston Celtics scores the first 3-point basket in NBA history during the first quarter of a game against the Houston Rockets; the game also marked the NBA debut of future hall of famer Larry Bird.
1979 - Future basketball hall of famer Magic Johnson makes his debut with the Los Angeles Lakers.
1985 - #9 Nebraska defeats #5 Oklahoma State 34-24.
1986 - Walter Payton (Chicago Bears) became the first National Football League (NFL) player to accumulate 20,000 yards.
1989 - Dallas Cowboys running back Herschel Walker is traded to the Minnesota Vikings for five players and six future draft picks, including future stars Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith and Darren Woodson.
1991 - #14 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 49-15.
1991 - Mike Lerch of Princeton ties an NCAA record with 370 receiving yards in a game.
1991 - Doug Flutie of the British Columbia Lions sets a Canadian Football League record with 582 passing yards in a game against the Edmonton Eskimos.
1992 - Art Monk of the Washington Redskins sets an NFL record with his 820th career reception.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Baylor 49-0.
1997 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) passed Jim Brown into fourth place on the NFL's all-time rushing list with 12,513 yards.
1997 - Eddie Murray (Minnesota Vikings) set an NFL record when he kicked his 235th consecutive extra point.
1999 - Basketball Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain died at age 63.
2002 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 24-13.
2002 - Ron Tugnutt (Dallas Stars) became the first NHL goalie to win a game for seven different teams.
2003 - Germany defeats Sweden 2-1 to win the Women's World Cup.
2010 - The Texas Rangers won the first playoff series in franchise history when they defeated the Tampa Devil Rays.
2013 - Nebraska defeats Purdoodoo 44-7.
2019 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 34-7.
2019 - Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in under two hours (1:59:40) in Vienna, Austria. (The time does not count in official marathon records as he used pacesetters and pace laser markings on a doctored course.)
1492 - Christopher Columbus landed in present-day Bahamas.
1792 - The first recorded U.S. celebration of Columbus Day was held to mark the tricentennial of Christopher Columbus’ landing.
1810 - The German festival Oktoberfest was first held in Munich to celebrate the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
1870 - Gen. Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia at age 63.
1933 - Bank robber John Dillinger escaped from a jail in Allen County, Ohio, with the help of his gang, who killed the sheriff, Jess Sarber.
1942 - During World War II, American naval forces defeated the Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance. Attorney General Francis Biddle announced during a Columbus Day celebration at Carnegie Hall in New York that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.
1960 - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev created a disturbance at the U.N. General Assembly by pounding his desk with a shoe.
1964 - The Soviet Union launched Voskhod I, the first space capsule to carry three people into orbit.
1973 - President Richard Nixon announced the nomination of House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford (R-Michigan) to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.
1976 - It was announced in China that Hua Guofeng had been named to succeed the late Mao Zedong as chairman of the Communist Party; it was also announced that Mao’s widow and three others, known as the “Gang of Four,” had been arrested.
1984 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people.
1986 - Superpower talks between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, ended in stalemate.
1997 - Singer John Denver was killed in the crash of his privately built aircraft in Monterey Bay, California; he was 53.
1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, died five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie.
1999 - Pakistan's military overthrew the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
2000 - Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed with a terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.
2002 - A bomb destroyed a nightclub in Bali, killing 202 people, most of them being tourists.
2007 - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming.
2011 - A Nigerian al-Qaida operative pleaded guilty to trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear minutes before the plane landed in Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was later sentenced to life in prison.)
2016 - Wells Fargo announced that its embattled CEO, John Stumpf, was stepping down as the nation’s second-largest bank found itself roiled by a scandal over its sales practices.
2017 - President Donald Trump lashed out at hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico, saying the federal government can’t keep sending help “forever” and suggesting that the U.S. territory was to blame for its financial struggles.
2020 - At the start of fast-tracked Senate confirmation hearings, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett presented her approach to the law as conservative and fair, while Democrats cast her as a threat to Americans’ health care coverage during the coronavirus pandemic.
2020 - Facebook said it would ban posts that deny or distort the Holocaust.
2020 - Roberta McCain, the mother of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, died at age 108.
Birthdays
29 - Josh Hutcherson (actor)
35 - Marcus T. Paulk (actor)
35 - Tyler Blackburn (actor)
38 - Erica Dixon (reality star)
38 - Katie Piper (TV host)
40 - Brian J. Smith (actor)
44 - Bode Miller (skier)
51 - Kirk Cameron (actor)
53 - Adam Rich (actor)
53 - Hugh Jackman (actor)
56 - Bob Schneider (singer)
59 - Claude McKnight (singer)
59 - Carlos Bernard (actor)
66 - Jane Siberry (singer)
71 - Susan Anton (actress/singer)
74 - Chris Wallace (broadcast journalist)
86 - Sam Moore (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 12
1853 - John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans.
1895 - Nebraska opened the season with a 38-0 win over Sioux City Athletic Club.
1901 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 19-0.
1907 - Nebraska defeats Grinnell 30-4.
1907 - The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers in five games to win their first World Series.
1912 - Nebraska defeated Kansas State 30-6.
1916 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in five games to win the World Series.
1920 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the World Series.
1929 - Nebraska defeats Syracuse 13-6.
1935 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1940 - Nebraska defeats Indianus 13-7.
1946 - Cockeye defeats Nebraska 21-7.
1957 - #20 Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 34-0.
1963 - Air Force defeats Nebraska 17-13.
1967 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Boston Red Sox in seven games to win the World Series.
1968 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Mexico City, the first Games to be held in Latin America.
1968 - #6 Kansas defeats #9 Nebraska 23-13.
1974 - Missouri upsets #5 Nebraska 21-10.
1979 - Chris Ford of the Boston Celtics scores the first 3-point basket in NBA history during the first quarter of a game against the Houston Rockets; the game also marked the NBA debut of future hall of famer Larry Bird.
1979 - Future basketball hall of famer Magic Johnson makes his debut with the Los Angeles Lakers.
1985 - #9 Nebraska defeats #5 Oklahoma State 34-24.
1986 - Walter Payton (Chicago Bears) became the first National Football League (NFL) player to accumulate 20,000 yards.
1989 - Dallas Cowboys running back Herschel Walker is traded to the Minnesota Vikings for five players and six future draft picks, including future stars Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith and Darren Woodson.
1991 - #14 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 49-15.
1991 - Mike Lerch of Princeton ties an NCAA record with 370 receiving yards in a game.
1991 - Doug Flutie of the British Columbia Lions sets a Canadian Football League record with 582 passing yards in a game against the Edmonton Eskimos.
1992 - Art Monk of the Washington Redskins sets an NFL record with his 820th career reception.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Baylor 49-0.
1997 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) passed Jim Brown into fourth place on the NFL's all-time rushing list with 12,513 yards.
1997 - Eddie Murray (Minnesota Vikings) set an NFL record when he kicked his 235th consecutive extra point.
1999 - Basketball Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain died at age 63.
2002 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 24-13.
2002 - Ron Tugnutt (Dallas Stars) became the first NHL goalie to win a game for seven different teams.
2003 - Germany defeats Sweden 2-1 to win the Women's World Cup.
2010 - The Texas Rangers won the first playoff series in franchise history when they defeated the Tampa Devil Rays.
2013 - Nebraska defeats Purdoodoo 44-7.
2019 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 34-7.
2019 - Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in under two hours (1:59:40) in Vienna, Austria. (The time does not count in official marathon records as he used pacesetters and pace laser markings on a doctored course.)
