October 12
October 12 is the 285th day of the year (286th in Leap years ). There are 80 days remaining.
Events:
Births:
1537 - King Edward VI of England
1860 - Elmer Sperry[?] , inventor
1866 - Ramsay MacDonald , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (+ 1937 )
1875 - Aleister Crowley , occultist , author (+ 1947 )
1906 - Joe Cronin[?] , Baseball Hall of Famer
1912 - Alice Childress[?] , novelist (+ 1994 )
1918 - P.S. Ramakrishna Rao[?] , film director (+ 1986 )
1923 - Jean Nidetch[?] , founder of Weight Watchers[?]
1932 - Dick Gregory , comedian, activist
1935 - Luciano Pavarotti , opera singer
1935 - Joan Rivers[?] , comedienne, television host
1968 - Hugh Jackman[?] , actor, singer
1975 - Marion Jones , track and field star
Deaths:
632 - Edwin , king of Northumbria and Bretwalda
638 - Pope Honorius I
642 - Pope John IV
1870 - Robert E. Lee , United States Civil War general (Confederate)
1915 - Edith Cavell , nurse
1924 - Anatole France , author, Nobel Prize winner
1940 - Tom Mix[?] , actor
1946 - General Joseph Stillwell[?]
1969 - Sonja Henie , figure skater
1971 - Dean Acheson , United States Secretary of State
1984 - Sir Anthony Berry , British politician , along with three of the other victims of the Brighton bombing
1993 - Leon Ames[?] , actor
1997 - John Denver , singer
1998 - Matthew Shepard , gay college student and gay-bashing victim
1999 - Wilt Chamberlain , basketball player
2001 - Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone , British politician
2002 - Ray Conniff[?] , band leader, musician
Holidays:
See Also: January , February , March , April , May , June , July , August , September , October , November , December
October 11 - October 13 - September 12 - November 12 - more historical anniversaries
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you, also, to God ; pray to Him to destroy in you your sinful love ;
fervor, then will God be near you with His strength, and in the pains
all that is good !"
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