100 years anniversary |
12 Oct 1924
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death
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Anatole France: Writer, dies at 80
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12 Oct 1924
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death
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Monroe A Althouse: Composer, dies at 71
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12 Oct 1924
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event
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Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow
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12 Oct 1924
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birth
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Doris Grau, American actress (d. 1995) |
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12 Oct 1924
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birth
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Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician (d. 2011) |
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12 Oct 1924
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birth
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Mimis Plessas, Greek pianist and composer |
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12 Oct 1924
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death
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Anatole France, French journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844) |
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12 Oct 1924
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event
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Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow
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75 years anniversary |
12 Oct 1949
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event
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Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US
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12 Oct 1949
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birth
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Stan Hansen, American wrestler and actor |
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12 Oct 1949
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birth
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Dave Lloyd, English cyclist and coach |
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12 Oct 1949
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birth
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Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan murderer |
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12 Oct 1949
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birth
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Nigel Thrift, English geographer and academic |
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12 Oct 1949
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birth
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Paul Went, English footballer and manager |
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12 Oct 1949
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event
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Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US
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12 Oct 1949
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history
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RELIGIOUS
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American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.'
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50 years anniversary |
12 Oct 1974
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birth
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Karmyn Tyler: Shreveport, Louisiana -- Miss America - Louisiana (1996)
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12 Oct 1974
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birth
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Rachyl Hoskins: Miss USA-Kentucky (1997)
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12 Oct 1974
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death
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Joseph Frederick Wagner: Composer, dies at 74
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12 Oct 1974
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event
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1st time Washington Capitals are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota
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12 Oct 1974
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birth
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Kate Beahan, Australian actress |
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12 Oct 1974
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birth
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Stephen Lee, English snooker player |
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12 Oct 1974
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birth
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Marie Wilson, Greek-Canadian actress and singer |
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12 Oct 1974
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music
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The Bay City Rollers went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut album 'Rollin.' The album included three British chart hits 'Remember', 'Shang-a-Lang', 'Summerlove Sensation') and the debut of Saturday Night', never a British hit yet a No.1 smash in America.
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12 Oct 1974
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event
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1st time Wash Caps are shut out as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota
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25 years anniversary |
12 Oct 1999
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death
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Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (b. 1936) |
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12 Oct 1999
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death
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Robert Marsden Hope, Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1919) |
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12 Oct 1999
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event
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Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup. |
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12 Oct 1999
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event
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The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia |
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12 Oct 1999
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music
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Adrian Young drummer with No Doubt proposed to his girlfriend during a gig in San Francisco. Young came on to the stage before the bands encore and got down on bended knee with a ring, his girlfriend Nina accepted.
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12 Oct 1999
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music
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The island of their birth, The Isle Of Man, issued six stamps honouring The Bee Gees. Their mother had run a local post office on the island.
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15 years anniversary |
12 Oct 2009
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death
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Dickie Peterson American singer-songwriter and bass player (Blue Cheer) (b. 1948) |
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12 Oct 2009
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death
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Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974) |
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10 years anniversary |
12 Oct 2014
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death
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Louise Daniel Hutchinson, American historian and educator (b. 1928) |
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12 Oct 2014
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death
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Tommy Lewis, American football player and coach (b. 1931) |
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12 Oct 2014
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death
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Ali Mazrui, Kenyan-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1933) |
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12 Oct 2014
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death
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Graham Miles, English snooker player (b. 1941) |
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12 Oct 2014
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death
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Roberto Telch, Argentinian footballer and coach (b. 1943) |
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12 Oct 2014
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event
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Super-cyclone Hudhud in Visakhapatnam, major loss occurs |
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