12th October anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1858
  • "Birth of Isaac Newton Lewis, American army officer, inventor of the Lewis Gun."
  • 1908
  • "Birth of Ann Petry, American novelist ."
• event
  • 1189
  • Great Britain
  • Richard the Lionheart Leaves England for the Crusades
  • 1609
  • "The song Three Blind Mice was first published by English composer Thomas Ravenscroft in Deuteromelia, a collection of rounds and catches"
  • 1928
  • "The first iron lung was used, at Boston Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts.."
  • 1933
  • United States
  • American bank robber John Dillinger escaped from jail in Ohio .
  • 1933
  • United States
  • The US Justice Department acquired Alcatraz Island and announced plans to turn it into a federal maximum-security prison.
  • 1936
  • Oswald Mosley Marches down Mile End Rd
  • 1948
  • 1st Morris Minor Built
  • 1968
  • Equatorial Guinea became independent from Spain .
  • 1978
  • United States
  • British punk rocker Sid Vicious was arrested for murder after his girlfriend Nancy Spungen’s body was found in their New York hotel.
  • 1984
  • Great Britain
  • IRA Bomb Grand Hotel Brighton
  • 1998
  • US Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (Became law on 28th October).
  • 1999
  • The government of Pakistan was overthrown by the military in a bloodless coup. Pervez Musharraf became Prime Minister
  • 1999
  • The UN announced that the worlds population had reached 6 billion
• Death
  • 1859
  • "Death of Robert Stephenson, British civil engineer who built many longspan railway bridges, most notably the Britannia bridge over the Menai Strait, north Wales, and also made improvements to locomotive design"
  • 1915
  • Edith Cavell Executed