October 12 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for October 12
In the headlines today:

2002	A terrorist car bomb detonates near a nightclub in Bali, killing nearly 200 people and injuring hundreds more.
2002	Bandleader-composer Ray Conniff dies at age 85 in Escondido, California.
2001	Singer Natalie Cole marries Nashville minister Kenneth Dupree.
2000	17 sailors are killed when terrorists send a bomb-laden raft into the US Naval destroyer USS Cole in Yemen.
1999	Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain dies in Los Angeles of cardiac arrest at age 63.
1997	Singer/guitarist John Denver dies in a plane crash near Monterey Bay, California, at age 53. (Photo credit: RCA)
1991	Film director Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw are married.
1989	Jay Ward, producer of animated TV series including Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, and George of the Jungle, dies in Hollywood of kidney cancer at age 69.
1985	Ricky Williams, drummer for the party rock band The B-52s, dies of AIDS at age 32.
1973	US president Richard Nixon (left) announces House minority leader Gerald Ford will succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president. (photo credit: NARA)
1971	The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ Superstar opens on Broadway.
1971	Rocker Gene Vincent (Be Bop A Lula) dies from a ruptured stomach ulcer at age 36.
1968	Opening ceremonies take place for the 19th Olympiad in Mexico City.
1964	The Soviet Union moves ahead in the space race by launching a three-man space capsule into Earth orbit.
1960	USSR Premier Nikita Khruschev gets angry during a United Nations meeting, removes his shoe, and pounds it on his desk to make a point.
1933	The San Francisco island of Alcatraz becomes a maximum security federal prison.
1920	Construction begins on the Holland Tunnel, linking New York City with Jersey City, New Jersey.
1870	Confederate General Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington, VA, at age 63.