12 October: What Happened On This Day in History

Christopher Columbus arrived in the Bahamas in the West Indies. He understood that we had reached India.

Charles McIntosh of Scotland sold the first raincoat.

Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske started Siemens AG Company.

America’s first women’s medical college opened.

In India, the British government criminalized 161 castes and tribes under the Criminal Tribes Act.

US President Theodore Roosevelt officially renamed the executive mansion the White House.

Soviet President Nikita Khrushchev knocked on the table to make his point while addressing the United Nations.

For the first time in the world, the Soviet Union sent astronauts into space on this day without wearing a spacesuit.

National Conference, the Working Committee of Jammu and Kashmir, unanimously passed the proposal to a permanent merger of the state with India.

The 19th Olympic Games began in Mexico City, Mexico.

Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei was sentenced to four years in prison for accepting a bribe of 200, 000 US dollars from Lockheed Corporation.

Guerrillas attacked an Indian Peace Corps convoy at the University of Jaffna to capture an LTTE leader. The heavy loss of the Indian squad.

Pallavi Shah of Kolhapur, India, won the 33rd Chess Olympiad and gets the title of International Woman Master.

National Environment Council with PM as chairperson set up.

RBI liberalises credit and monetary policy.

Pakistan’s military general Parvesh Musharraf took over power of the country by overthrowing then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

The Millennium World Food Prize was awarded to Indian plant geneticist Dr. Surinder K. Vasal and Mexican botanist Dr. Evangelina Villegas for developing a protein-rich maize variety.

Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya became the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.