October 12th, 1981

Born on October 12th, 1981

Age in days, weeks and months
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What 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.

October 12th, 1917

World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.

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

Born on October 12th, 1981

42

Brian J. Smith

American actor

*October 12th, 1981, Dallas

42

Shola Ameobi

Nigerian footballer (born 1981)

*October 12th, 1981, Zaria

42

Conrad Smith

New Zealand rugby union player

*October 12th, 1981, Hāwera

42

Marcel Hossa

Slovak ice hockey player

*October 12th, 1981, Ilava

42

Ayesha Omar

Pakistani actor, singer and model

*October 12th, 1981, Karachi

42

Guillaume Boussès

French rugby union player

*October 12th, 1981, Toulouse

42

Jack Michael Martíne

Dominican Republic basketball player

*October 12th, 1981, Santo Domingo

42

Sun Tiantian

Chinese tennis player

*October 12th, 1981, Zhengzhou

42

Brian Kerr

Scottish footballer (born 1981)

*October 12th, 1981, Bellshill

42

Tom Guiry

American actor

*October 12th, 1981, Trenton

42

Engin Akyürek

Turkish actor

*October 12th, 1981, Ankara

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

45

Konstrakta

Serbian singer-songwriter

*October 12th, 1978, Belgrade

55

Hugh Jackman

Australian actor (born 1968)

*October 12th, 1968, Sydney

25

Kyohei Yamashita

Badminton player

*October 12th, 1998, Okayama Prefecture

41

Lara Trump

American television producer and campaign adviser

*October 12th, 1982, Wilmington

72

Imelda Wiguna

Badminton player

*October 12th, 1951, Slawi

46

Bode Miller

American alpine ski racer

*October 12th, 1977, Easton

45

Baden Cooke

Australian cyclist

*October 12th, 1978, Benalla

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

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

80

Odd Einar Dørum

Norwegian politician

*October 12th, 1943, Oslo

37

Michael Woods

Canadian road cyclist

*October 12th, 1986, East York

41

Giuseppe Lanzone

American rower

*October 12th, 1982, La Punta

45

Georg Hettich

German Nordic combined skier

*October 12th, 1978, Furtwangen im Schwarzwald

43

Ledley King

English footballer (born 1980)

*October 12th, 1980, Bow

78

Horst Rudolf Abe

German medical historian (1927-2006)

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

57

Brenda Romero

American video game designer and developer

*October 12th, 1966, Ogdensburg

31

Josh Hutcherson

American actor

*October 12th, 1992, Union

41

Tyler Hanes

American actor

*October 12th, 1982, Jacksonville

40

Alex Brosque

Australian soccer player

*October 12th, 1983, Sydney

33

Li Wenliang

Chinese ophthalmologist known for warning about the coronavirus in December 2019 (1986-2020)

*October 12th, 1986, Beizhen †February 7th, 2020, Central Hospital of Wuhan

71

Luciano Pavarotti

Italian operatic tenor

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

Same year
Born in 1981

42

MS Dhoni

Indian cricket player

*July 7th, 1981, Ranchi

42

Taufik Hidayat

Indonesian badminton player

*August 10th, 1981, Bandung City

43

Vita Marissa

Indonesian badminton player

*January 4th, 1981, Jakarta

43

Alistair Casey

Badminton player

*February 23rd, 1981, Glasgow

42

Martin de Jonge

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1981, Rotterdam

42

Roger Federer

Swiss tennis player

*August 8th, 1981, Basel

43

Mattias Tesfaye

Danish politician

*March 31st, 1981, Aarhus

42

Beau Bokan

American singer

*November 30th, 1981, Huntington Beach

42

Beyoncé

American singer (born 1981)

*September 4th, 1981, Houston

43

Zhang Jiewen

Badminton player

*January 4th, 1981, Guangzhou

42

Gavin Shuker

British politician (born 1981)

*October 10th, 1981, Luton

43

Gong Ruina

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1981, Anhua County

42

Dorian James

Badminton player

*June 19th, 1981, Cape Town

42

Juliette Ah-Wan

Badminton player

*April 29th, 1981, Victoria

42

Anna Carina

Peruvian musician

*August 14th, 1981, Lima

43

Tom Starke

German association football player

*March 18th, 1981, Dresden

43

Björn Joppien

Badminton player

*January 30th, 1981, Langenfeld

43

Jürgen Wouters

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1981, Gilze en Rijen

42

Miyo Akao

Badminton player

*August 29th, 1981, Hita

42

Marco Vorbeck

German association football player and manager

*June 24th, 1981, Kühlungsborn

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Public holidays on October 12th

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Born on October 12th, 1981
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1981 is a normal year and no leap year.

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