Today is Friday, October 12, the 285th day of 2007. There are 80 days left in the year.
1285 _ 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich, Germany, they are set on fire
1492 _ Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day
1860 _ British and French troops capture Beijing
1915 _ Theodore Roosevelt criticizes U.S. citizens with dual nationalities
1941 _ The Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow
1942 _ The U.S. navy defeats Japanese in WWII Battle of Cape Esperance
1962 _ The U.S. and the USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications and meteorology
1968 _ The 19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City
1968 _ Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain
1969 _ Yoko Ono suffers another miscarriage
1972 _ 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk
1973 _ Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as vice president
1976 _ Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party
1988 _ Israel and China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations