10-12-2005, 05:44 AM
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October 12th
1492 ~ Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean. But where?
1609 ~ Three Blind Mice published by Thomas Ravenscroft.
1870 ~ Death of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Leader.
1935 ~ Birthday of Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor.
1968 ~ Summer Olympics open in Mexico City.
1977 ~ Four Palestinians hijacked a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demanded release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
1986 ~ Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev fail to agree on Star Wars at a disarmament summit in Reykjavik.
1997 ~ Death of John Denver, American singer.
2000 ~ Suicide bombers attack the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden.
2002 ~ A car bomb at a Bali nightclub killed 202 people, mainly Australians.
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