Today is Tuesday, October 12, the 285th day of 2010. There are 80 days left in the year.
1492 ― Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day
1860 ― British and French troops capture Peking
1942 ― U.S. navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance
1960 ― Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at U.N. General Assembly session
1968 ― Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is first woman to light Olympic flame
1973 ― Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP
1976 ― Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party
1978 ― Representatives of Israel and Egypt open talks in Washington
1984 ― IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying
1985 ― International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize