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Old 10-12-2006, 05:18 AM
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October 12th
1492 ~ Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean. But where?

1609 ~ Three Blind Mice published by Thomas Ravenscroft.

1870 ~ Death of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Leader.

1935 ~ Birthday of Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor.

1968 ~ Summer Olympics open in Mexico City.

1977 ~ Four Palestinians hijacked a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demanded release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.

1986 ~ Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev failed to agree on Star Wars at a disarmament summit in Reykjavik.

1997 ~ Death of John Denver, American singer.

2000 ~ Suicide bombers attacked the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden.

2002 ~ A car bomb at a Bali nightclub killed 202 people, mainly Australians.
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