Today in History (October 12th):
1492: Christopher Columbus reached America, making his first landing in the New World on one of the Bahamas Islands. Columbus thought he had reached India.
1860: Birthdays: Elmer Sperry, who devised practical uses for the gyroscope.
1872: Birthdays: English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
1899: The Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State in southern Africa declared war on the British. The Boer War was ended May 31, 1902, by the Treaty of Vereeniging.
1906: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member Joe Cronin.
1915: British nurse Edith Cavell, 49, was executed by a German firing squad in Brussels for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium in World War I.
1932: Birthdays: Comedian and activist Dick Gregory.
1935: Birthdays: Opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti; R&B singer Sam Moore.
1942: Birthdays: Rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame member and Temptations singing group member Melvin Franklin.
1947: Birthdays: TV correspondent Chris Wallace.
1950: Birthdays: Singer/actor Susan Anton.
1960: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev removed one of his shoes and pounded it on his desk during a speech before the United Nations.
1964: The Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1 into orbit around Earth, with three cosmonauts aboard. It was the first spacecraft to carry a multi-person crew and the two-day mission was also the first flight performed without space suits.
1968: Birthdays: Actor Hugh Jackman; Actor Adam Rich.
1969: Birthdays: Country music musician Martie Maguire (the Dixie Chicks).
1970: Birthdays: Actor Kirk Cameron.
1973: U.S. President Richard Nixon nominated U.S. House Minority Leader Gerald Ford, R-Mich., for the vice presidency to replace Spiro Agnew, who had resigned two days earlier.
1975: Birthdays: Track star Marion Jones.
1977: Birthdays: Olympic gold medal winning skier Bode Miller.
1979: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published by Douglas Adams.
1984: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped injury in the bombing of a hotel in Brighton, England. Four people were killed in the attack, blamed on the Irish Republican Army.
1992: More than 500 people were killed and thousands injured when an earthquake rocked Cairo, Egypt.
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1998: University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard died five days after the 21-year-old gay man was beaten, robbed and left tied to a fence.
1999: The elected government of Pakistan was overthrown in an apparently bloodless military coup. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and several other leaders were arrested.
2000: 17 sailors were killed when an explosion rocked the USS Cole as it refueled in Yemen. U.S. President Bill Clinton blamed the attack on al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
2002: A bomb exploded near two crowded night clubs on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people. The terror continued for Washington-area residents as the weeklong death toll from a mysterious sniper reached eight.
2005: Newly released documents charged that the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Los Angeles allegedly shielded priests accused of sexual abuse by moving them from one parish to another.
2007: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to publicize a man-made climate change and explain how to counteract it.
2008: The 15 countries of the eurozone agreed on an emergency deal to guarantee financial debt for five years and to take a direct stake in banks if needed.
2009: Two explosions in Pakistan killed at least 69 people and injured scores of others in the latest in a string of attacks in the country. The death toll from landslides and floods caused by Philippines typhoons Ketsana and Parma reached 600 and officials expected it to climb further.
2010: A U.S. district judge in California ordered the U.S. government to stop enforcing the don’t ask, don’t tell law, which forbids homosexuals from serving openly in the U.S. military. The order was held up, however, pending a government appeal. The U.S. government lifted the ban on deep-water oil and natural gas drilling for companies that obey stricter rules aimed at avoiding a repeat of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A collision between a train and a bus in central Ukraine killed at least 40 people and injured a dozen others.
2011: The so-called underwear bomber abruptly changed his plea to guilty as his trial was about to begin on terrorism charges that he tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, 2009, with explosives hidden in his under clothes.
Quotes
“The key to success isn’t much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in.” – Tehyi Hsieh, Chinese educator, writer and diplomat
Alice Childress (1920-1994) US writer:
“Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.”
“Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.”
“I continue to create because writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was God.”
“It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.”
“The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers…”
“Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!”