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Today in History: Wednesday, October\u00a0 12, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn Oct. 12, 1492 (Old Style calendar; Oct. 21st New Style), Christopher Columbus arrived with his expedition in the present-day Bahamas.
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1810<\/td>\nThe German festival Oktoberfest was first held in Munich to celebrate the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1935<\/td>\nOpera singer Luciano Pavarotti was born in Modena, Italy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960<\/td>\nSoviet premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a U.N. General Assembly session by pounding a shoe on his desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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1971<\/td>\n“Jesus Christ Superstar,” a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, opened on Broadway.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1973<\/td>\nPresident Richard Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/td>\nBritish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986<\/td>\nSuperpower talks between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, ended in stalemate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\nMatthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, died five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nPakistan’s military overthrew the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nTwo al-Qaida suicide bombers in an explosives-laden boat rammed into the destroyer the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 sailors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nA bomb destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people. Islamic militants linked to al-Qaida were blamed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nFormer Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nA Nigerian al-Qaida operative pleaded guilty to trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear minutes before the plane landed in Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was later sentenced to life in prison.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Actor Hugh Jackman turns 48 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Jake Garn<\/td>\nFormer U.S. senator, R-Utah<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dick Gregory<\/td>\nComedian, activist<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sam Moore<\/td>\nR&B singer (Sam and Dave)<\/td>\n81<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chris Wallace<\/td>\nBroadcast journalist<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Engler<\/td>\nFormer governor of Michigan<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Susan Anton<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adam Rich<\/td>\nActor (“Eight is Enough”)<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Martie Maguire<\/td>\nCountry musician (Dixie Chicks)<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kirk Cameron<\/td>\nActor (“Growing Pains”)<\/td>\n46<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bode Miller<\/td>\nU.S. Olympic skiier<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Golfer Cristie Kerr turns 39 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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