Tuesday October 12, 2010

Historical Events

• Two explosions take place in Aden in southern Yemen, killing one person and injuring many others. Al-Qaeda's wing in the country has also stated its intention to create a "new Army" to overthrow President.
• After landing in eastern Afghanistan, a NATO helicopter explodes killing two people and injuring ten more.
• An attack on the Boko Haram Islamists caused the destruction of a Nigeria Police Force station located in Maiduguri, northern Nigeria.
• Howard Jacobson, a British author, wins the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for "The Finkler Question".
• Greenpeace sent Facebook a half-million signatures asking for a halt to its coal-based electricity.
• 2010 strikes in France: French workers start a 24-hour strike to protest pension reform and transport services being badly affected.
• 2010 Copiapo mining accident rescue:
• Chile starts to rescue 33 underground miners as a result the 2010 Copiapo mining accident.
• After two months underground, Florencio Alvalos, the first miner, was pulled out of the mine. (Fox News),
• 41 people are killed in a collision of a bus with a train in Dnipropetrovsk, eastern Ukraine.
• 18 people die in a bus accident near Nowe Miasto nad Pilica, Poland.
• 2010 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Paula (2010) becomes a hurricane as it moves towards Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
• The collision of tanker 'Mindolo and cargo ship, 'Jork Ranger' in Scheveningen (Netherlands)
• After heavy flooding, nearly 700 people in a small Nigerian town were forced to relocate.
• Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia's President, visits the disaster zone resulting from 2010 floods in West Papua.
• Iran claims that two foreigners were arrested in Iran for interviewing Sakineh Mohammadiashtiani's son. They had links to "anti-revolutionary groups" abroad, Iran said.
• Judge Virginia A. Phillips of the United States District Court for the Central District of California issues an injunction preventing the United States Military from pursuing its don't ask, don't tell policy towards lesbians and gay members. (USA Today),
• New York City will host the Ahmed Ghailani trial, the first Guantanamo bay prisoner to be tried in a criminal case in the United States.
• Kim Jong Il's eldest child, Kim Jong Nam, slams the North Korean hereditary succession plan that would see power being transferred to his younger brother Kim Jong Un.
• Ata-Zhurt, the party led by Kamchybek Takshiyev, is the top-ranked Kyrgyzstani parliamentary candidate. It won 8.88 percent of all votes.
• After the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, the Obama administration lifted a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Laura Wells, Green Party Candidate was arrested while trying to participate in the California Gubernatorial Debate 2010. The debate was closed to all parties except the Democrats and Republicans.
• The Commonwealth Games Federation has advised that Samuel Okon (a hurdler from Nigeria) tested positive for Methylhexaneamine, a banned substance, at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Delhi, India.
• After seven minutes of play, a Euro 2012 qualifier between Italy & Serbia in Genoa (Italy) was abandoned due to violent behavior from Serbian fans.
• Major League Baseball: The Texas Rangers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays, in the fifth game in their American League Division Series. This was the Texas Rangers' first appearance in an American League Championship Series.
• Chile attempts to rescue 33 underground miners from the Copiapo mining disaster in 2010. (BBC), (Reuters) Florencio Alvalos, the first miner, is finally pulled out of the mine after spending two months underground. (Fox News),
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See also

What happened on October 12 in history? Find out the list of October 12th major events

What was 2010 famous for? Discover everything about 2010

Who died on October 12, 2010?

• Woody Peoples

  American football player (Born 1943).

• Belva Plain

  American novelist (Born 1919).

• José Casas Gris
• Manuel Alexandre

Other October 12th famous deaths

• John Denver

  American folk singer, recording artist, club performer and actor.

• Nancy Spungen

  American homicide victim 10/12/1978, by her boyfriend, heavy metal rocker Sid Vicious.

• Tom Mix

  American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1940).

• Sonja Henie

  Norwegian championship ice skater of all time with awards of over 257 medals, cups and bowls.

See all famous people who died on October 12th

Western Zodiac - Astrological Sign

Libra

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Babies born in October are either Libra or Scorpio. People born before October 22nd are Libra, while people born from October 23rd have the sign of Scorpio

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Chinese Zodiac

Tiger

The day of the week was Tuesday.

October 12th marks the 284th day of the Gregorian calendar for the year 2010.

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October 2010 calendar

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