- 1492] Lost and Found: Christopher Columbus reaches the New World when he sights a Bahamian Island believing he has reached East Asia. Hey I get lost trying to find aisle 8 in Food Emporium...
- 1892] Pledging our love: The Pledge of Allegiance written by Francis Bellamy is first recited in unison by students in U.S. public schools...
- 1960] Put an egg in that shoe and beat it: Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev disrupts a U.N. General Assembly session by pounding the podium with a shoe during a dispute...
- 1967] Fall Classic: The 'Impossible Dream' ends. Red Sox pitcher Jim Lonborg makes a valiant attempt to pitch on two days rest but loses game 7 of the Boston-St. Louis World Series. Final score 7-2 Cardinals. I was at that game, played at Fenway Park...
- 1971] "Happy Trails": Gene Vincent dies from a ruptured stomach ulcer at 36...1997] John Denver is killed in a plane crash when he runs out of fuel. Denver was 53...1999] Basketball Hall Of Famer Wilt Chamberlain dies in his sleep of a heart attack at 72...
- 1973] Nixon picks a Ford: President Richard Nixon nominates House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich) to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as VP. Agnew goes on a search for 'nattering naybobs of negativism.'...
- 1998] Tragic death: Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post...
- 1999] The day of six billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born...
- 2000] Death on a destroyer: Two suicide bombers in an explosives-laden boat ram into the destroyer the USS Cole in Yemen. 17 sailors are killed...
- 2007] Keeping the peace: Former VP Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change wins the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming. This past Friday, President Barack Obama was the surprise winner of the same award...For more on October 12:
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