Brazil: Nossa Senhora de Aparecida/Our Lady of Aparecida Day (Commemorates the feast day Our Lady of Aparecida. patron saint of Brazil)
Costa Rica: cultures Day (The Spanish conquistadores are remembered with protest marches by the indigenous people)
Honduras: Americas Day (Commemorates First Sighting of the New World by Christopher Columbus: 10/12/1492)
Panama, Venezuela: Columbus Day (Commemorates First Sighting of the New World by Christopher Columbus: 10/12/1492)
Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Uruguay: Día de la Raza/Day of the Race (Commemorates the Arrival of Christopher Columbus and the European Race: 10/12/1492)
Equatorial Guinea: Independence Day (Commemorates Equatorial Guinea's Independence from Spain: 10/12/1968)
Laos: Liberation from France Day
Spain: Fiesta Nacional de Espana (National Day) (Commemorates First Sighting of the New World by Christopher Columbus: 10/12/1492)
1537	Edward VI (King of England and Ireland)
1782	Henry Dodge (Indiana-born Military and Political Leader; Marshall of the Missouri Territory, First Territorial Governor of Wisconsin)
1818	Elizabeth Van Lew (Virginia-born Union Spy During the American Civil War)
1869	William Henry Stafford (Wisconsin-born Member of the U.S. Congress)
1889	Perle Mesta (Michigan-born Women's Rights Activist, U.S. Diplomat)
1891	Edith Stein (German Scholar and Carmelite Nun; Executed by Nazis Because of Jewish Background)
1904	William Montague Cobb (Washington, D.C.-born African-American Civil Rights Activist)
1906	Louise Rosenfeld (Iowa-born Home Economist, Member of the Iowa Hall of Fame)
1913	Henry Carl Schadeberg (Wisconsin-born Member of the U.S. Congress)
1919	Dorie Miller (Texas-born African-American Recipient of the Navy Cross for Heroism at Pearl Harbor))
1864	Roger B. Taney (Maryland-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
1870	Robert E. Lee (Virginia-born Leader of the Confederate Army)
1946	Joseph Stilwell (Florida-born General, U.S. Army)
1285	180 Jews Are Burned Alive At Their Munich Synagogue
1492	The New World Is First Sighted by Columbus' Ship The Pinta
1518	Luther's Hearing Before the Papal Legate Regarding His 95 Theses Begins in Augsburg
1565	Spanish Soldiers Execute French Admiral Jean Ribault and 200 Troops in Florida
1777	The British Fleet Sets Anchor on the Delaware River
1810	The First Oktoberfest Is Celebrated in Munich, Germany
1860	The Prince of Wales, England's Future King Edward VII, Is Honored at a Lavish Ball in New York City
1865	Former Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens Leaves Federal Prison after Four Months
1899	South Africa's Boer War Begins
1914	James C. McReynolds Sworn in As Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court
1921	José Vasconcelos Appointed Mexico's First Secretary of Public Education
1949	Sherman Minton Sworn in As Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
1960	Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Pounds Desk with His Shoe at the U.N.
1967	Anti-War Protestors Interrupt a Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Drill at the University of Delaware
1968	Equatorial Guinea Gains Its Independence from Spain
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1973	President Richard Nixon Nominates Gerald R. Ford to Succeed Spiro T. Agnew as Vice President of the United States
1984	An IRA Terrorist Bomb Kills Four at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, England
	President Reagan's Executive Order Creates National Commission on Space
1986	Reagan-Gorbachev Iceland Summit Adjourns without Reaching Agreements
1999	The United Nations Announces the World's Population Has Reached 6 Billion
	Pakistan's Military Overthrows Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
2000	17 U.S. Sailors Killed When Terrorists Attack the USS Cole in Yemen
2001	U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Selected for the Nobel Peace Prize
	NBC News Staff Exposed to Anthrax from Letter Addressed to Anchor, Tom Brokaw
2002	Islamic Militants' Bomb Destroys Indonesian Nightclub: 202 Die

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