October 12th, 1976

Born on October 12th, 1976

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What happened on October 12th, 1976?

October 12th, 1976

Indian Airlines Flight 171 crashes at Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India, killing 95.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_171

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, 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.

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, 1976

47

Raúl Guerrón

Ecuadorian footballer

*October 12th, 1976, Atuntaqui

47

Kajsa Bergqvist

Swedish high jumper

*October 12th, 1976, Sollentuna Municipality

47

Oleg Lebedev

Russian politician (born 1976)

*October 12th, 1976, Tula

47

Lauri Lassila

Former mogul skier

*October 12th, 1976, Helsinki

47

Susanne Langhans

German television presenter

*October 12th, 1976, Dresden

47

Nilz Bokelberg

German television presenter

*October 12th, 1976, Bonn

47

Fernanda Trías

Uruguayan writer

*October 12th, 1976, Montevideo

47

Maurice Carter

American basketball player

*October 12th, 1976, Jackson

47

Viktoriya Isakova

Russian actress

*October 12th, 1976, Khasavyurt

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Who's birthday is on October 12th?

45

Konstrakta

Serbian singer-songwriter

*October 12th, 1978, Belgrade

46

Bode Miller

American alpine ski racer

*October 12th, 1977, Easton

55

Hugh Jackman

Australian actor (born 1968)

*October 12th, 1968, Sydney

25

Kyohei Yamashita

Badminton player

*October 12th, 1998, Okayama Prefecture

45

Baden Cooke

Australian cyclist

*October 12th, 1978, Benalla

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

42

Brian J. Smith

American actor

*October 12th, 1981, Dallas

42

Shola Ameobi

Nigerian footballer (born 1981)

*October 12th, 1981, Zaria

80

Odd Einar Dørum

Norwegian politician

*October 12th, 1943, Oslo

48

Marion Jones

American athlete

*October 12th, 1975, Los Angeles

45

Georg Hettich

German Nordic combined skier

*October 12th, 1978, Furtwangen im Schwarzwald

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

41

Lara Trump

American television producer and campaign adviser

*October 12th, 1982, Wilmington

37

Michael Woods

Canadian road cyclist

*October 12th, 1986, East York

46

Cristie Kerr

Professional golfer

*October 12th, 1977, Miami

63

Dorothee Vieth

German Paralympic cyclist

*October 12th, 1960, Hamburg

65

Lutz Haueisen

East German cyclist

*October 12th, 1958, Jena

71

Luciano Pavarotti

Italian operatic tenor

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

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Born in 1976

47

Abiy Ahmed Ali

Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018

*August 15th, 1976, Beshasha

47

Anna Friel

British actress

*July 12th, 1976, Rochdale

47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

48

Robert Mateusiak

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1976, Wołomin

47

Gülşen

Turkish singer

*May 29th, 1976, Çapa, Fatih

47

Regina Halmich

German boxer

*November 22nd, 1976, Karlsruhe

40

Ueli Steck

Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (1976-2017)

*October 4th, 1976, Langnau im Emmental †April 30th, 2017, Nuptse

47

Halim Haryanto

Badminton player

*September 23rd, 1976, Bandung City

47

Ellen Angelina

Indonesian badminton player

*June 30th, 1976, Salatiga City

48

Chantal Botts

Badminton player

*March 30th, 1976, Witbank

48

Takae Masumo

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1976, Hokkaido

48

Pál Dárdai

Hungarian association football player and manager

*March 16th, 1976, Pécs

47

Inga Marte Thorkildsen

Norwegian politician

*July 2nd, 1976, Oslo

47

Benedict Cumberbatch

English actor (born 1976)

*July 19th, 1976, Hammersmith

47

Lars Ricken

German footballer

*July 10th, 1976, Dortmund

47

Francesco Totti

Italian association football player

*September 27th, 1976, Rome

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

47

Colin Farrell

Irish actor (born 1976)

*May 31st, 1976, Dublin

47

Wang Chen

Hong Kong badminton player

*June 21st, 1976, Shanghai

47

Hidetaka Yamada

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1976, Kobe

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Born on October 12th, 1976
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Leap year

Yes: 1976 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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