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Events on October 12

• 1492 Discovery of America: Christopher Columbus goes ashore on the island of Guanahani in the Bahamas today and names the island San Salvador.
• 1810 In Munich, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen and the Bavarian crown prince Ludwig marry. The wedding celebration at the Theresienwiese ends on October 17 with a horse race, from whose later annual follow-up events the Oktoberfest developed.
• 1847 Werner von Siemens founds the Siemens & Halske telegraph construction company in Berlin together with Johann Georg Halske.
• 1890 The first party congress of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany following the repeal of the Socialist Law begins in Halle (Saale). During the seven-day event, the renaming of the party to the Social Democratic Party of Germany is decided upon.
• 1930 The Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna-Heiligenstadt, the world's longest contiguous residential complex and, as a municipal housing development, a showpiece of "Red Vienna," is opened by Mayor Karl Seitz.
• 1949 The German Trade Union Federation (DGB) is founded in Munich.
• 1964 The Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 1 launches with cosmonauts Vladimir Komarov, Boris Yegorov and Konstantin Feoktystov aboard. It is the first multi-person spaceflight.
• 1968 The XIX Olympic Summer Games begin in Mexico City.
• 1981 Rudi Carrell parodies Tagesschau for the first time on ARD with his show Rudis Tagesshow.
• 1990 CDU politician Wolfgang Schäuble is shot at a campaign event. Schäuble has since been paralyzed from the third thoracic vertebra down.
• 2003 The German women's national football team wins the World Cup in Los Angeles with a 2:1 Golden Goal victory over the Swedish team. Nia Künzer heads in the winning goal in the 98th minute.
• 2012 The European Union is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.

Born on October 12

• 1872 Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer and conductor
• 1882 Harry Liedtke, German actor
• 1891 Edith Stein, German philosopher and nun, victim of National Socialism
• 1901 Hanns Seidel, German politician
• 1942 Daliah Lavi, Israeli film actress and singer
• 1950 Roland Asch, German motorsport driver
• 1970 Sven Nagel, German comedian and author
• 1992 Zombey, German web video producer
• 1992 Josh Hutcherson, American actor
• 2000 Roberto Massimo, German-Italian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „12. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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