October 12th, 1960

Born on October 12th, 1960

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What happened on October 12th, 1960?

October 12th, 1960

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev

October 12th, 1960

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly pounded his shoe on a desk during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev

What else happened on October 12th?

October 12th, 1984

The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in a failed attempt to assassinate British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.

October 12th, 1979

Typhoon Tip, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, reached a worldwide record-low sea-level pressure of 870 mbar (25.69 inHg) in the western Pacific Ocean.

October 12th, 1946

Il Canto degli Italiani is adopted as national anthem by the newly formed Italian Republic.

October 12th, 1933

The United States Department of Justice acquired a military prison on Alcatraz Island, transforming it over the next year into the last-resort Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.

October 12th, 1928

The iron lung (example pictured), a type of medical ventilator, was used for the first time, to treat an eight-year-old girl paralyzed by polio.

October 12th, 1917

First World War: New Zealand troops suffered more than 2,000 casualties, including more than 800 deaths, in the First Battle of Passchendaele (pictured), making it the nation's largest loss of life in one day.

October 12th, 1892

The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States was first used in public schools to coincide with the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

October 12th, 1799

Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin became the first woman to make a parachute descent, falling 900 metres (3,000 ft) in the gondola of a hot air balloon.

October 12th, 1798

The Peasants' War began in Overmere, Southern Netherlands, with peasants taking up arms against the French occupiers.

October 12th, 1492

Believing he had reached the East Indies, Christopher Columbus made landfall on an island in the Caribbean, sparking a series of events that led to the European colonization of the Americas.

October 12th, 1398

The Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Konrad von Jungingen signed the Treaty of Salynas, the third attempt to cede Samogitia to the Knights.

October 12th, 1928

An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital.

October 12th, 1918

A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 12th

Born on October 12th, 1960

63

Dorothee Vieth

German Paralympic cyclist

*October 12th, 1960, Hamburg

63

Hiroyuki Sanada

Japanese actor

*October 12th, 1960, Shinagawa-ku

63

Jürgen Engler

German-American musician

*October 12th, 1960, Bilk

63

Alexei Kudrin

Russian politician

*October 12th, 1960, Dobele

63

Carlo Perrone

Italian footballer and manager

*October 12th, 1960, Rome

63

Karsten Heinz

German handball player

*October 12th, 1960, Premnitz

63

Jürgen Fleck

German chess player and chess composer

*October 12th, 1960, Moers

63

Gerald Kazanowski

Canadian basketball player

*October 12th, 1960, Nanaimo

63

Steve Lowery

Professional golfer

*October 12th, 1960, Birmingham

60

Mark Jensen

Canadian luger

*October 12th, 1960, Toronto †February 1st, 2021

63

Jeff Nathanson

American screenwriter

*October 12th, 1960, Los Angeles

Same Day
Who's birthday is on October 12th?

55

Hugh Jackman

Australian actor (born 1968)

*October 12th, 1968, Sydney

72

Imelda Wiguna

Badminton player

*October 12th, 1951, Slawi

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

65

Lutz Haueisen

East German cyclist

*October 12th, 1958, Jena

80

Odd Einar Dørum

Norwegian politician

*October 12th, 1943, Oslo

45

Konstrakta

Serbian singer-songwriter

*October 12th, 1978, Belgrade

25

Kyohei Yamashita

Badminton player

*October 12th, 1998, Okayama Prefecture

57

Brenda Romero

American video game designer and developer

*October 12th, 1966, Ogdensburg

78

Horst Rudolf Abe

German medical historian (1927-2006)

*October 12th, 1927, Erfurt †February 27th, 2006, Erfurt

61

Branko Crvenkovski

President of the Republic of North Macedonia

*October 12th, 1962, Sarajevo

68

Rick Parfitt

British rock musician (1948–2016)

*October 12th, 1948, Woking †December 24th, 2016, Marbella

46

Bode Miller

American alpine ski racer

*October 12th, 1977, Easton

71

Luciano Pavarotti

Italian operatic tenor

*October 12th, 1935, Modena †September 6th, 2007, Modena

42

Brian J. Smith

American actor

*October 12th, 1981, Dallas

61

Trần Đại Quang

8th President of Vietnam

*October 12th, 1956, Ninh Bình †September 21st, 2018, Hanoi

42

Shola Ameobi

Nigerian footballer (born 1981)

*October 12th, 1981, Zaria

45

Baden Cooke

Australian cyclist

*October 12th, 1978, Benalla

61

Carlos Bernard

American actor

*October 12th, 1962, Evanston

64

Anna Escobedo Cabral

American politician

*October 12th, 1959, San Bernardino

70

David Threlfall

English stage, film and television actor and director

*October 12th, 1953, Burnage

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Born in 1960

63

Vince Clarke

English synth-pop musician and songwriter

*July 3rd, 1960, South Woodford tube station

63

Sydney Youngblood

American/German singer

*December 2nd, 1960, San Antonio

63

Åse Michaelsen

Norwegian politician

*June 4th, 1960, Mandal Municipality

63

Sally Yates

American lawyer, 36th United States Deputy Attorney General

*August 20th, 1960, Atlanta

64

Naruhito

Emperor of Japan since 2019

*February 23rd, 1960, Hospital of the Imperial Household

64

Lene Kaaberbøl

Danish writer

*March 24th, 1960, Copenhagen

63

David Duchovny

American actor and writer

*August 7th, 1960, New York City

64

Pierre Littbarski

German association football player and manager

*April 16th, 1960, West Berlin

32

Jón Páll Sigmarsson

Icelandic strongman, powerlifter and bodybuilder

*April 28th, 1960, Hafnarfjörður †January 16th, 1993, Reykjavík

60

Diego Maradona

Argentine football player and manager (1960–2020)

*October 30th, 1960, Lanús †November 25th, 2020, Dique Luján

63

Christopher Barker

Swiss actor

*May 2nd, 1960, Rome

63

Friederike Seyfried

German archaeologist and egyptologist

*November 19th, 1960, Mosbach

63

John Leguizamo

American actor, comedian, producer, and writer (born 1960)

*July 22nd, 1960, Bogotá

63

Jane Lynch

American actress

*July 14th, 1960, Evergreen Park

63

Susanne Zimmer

Danish politician

*June 9th, 1960, Brønderslev

64

Ivanna Lie

Indonesian badminton player

*March 7th, 1960, Bandung City

63

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

64

Misbun Sidek

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1960, Banting

63

Colin Firth

English actor and producer

*September 10th, 1960, Grayshott

63

Denyse Julien

Badminton player

*July 22nd, 1960, Rouyn-Noranda

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Leap year

Yes: 1960 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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