Day's Calendar – October 12

The 285th day of the year; 80 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Venerable Onuphrius (Onisifore) of Gareji, the Wonderworker (1786); Venerable Cyriacus the Recluse (556); Martyrs: Dadas (son of the Persian King Shapur), Gavdais, and his sister Kazdoia (4th century); Venerable Theophanes the Merciful.

Born:

1537 – Edward VI, King of England, a member of the Tudor dynasty.

1798 – Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil.

1896 – Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate.

1906 – Giorgi Khundadze, renowned Georgian surgeon.

1923 – Nodar Kipshidze, physician, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Honored Worker of Science.

1935 – Luciano Pavarotti, prominent Italian opera singer. Died in 2008.

Died:

1896 – Nikoloz Dadiani, Georgian writer and translator.

Events:

1492 – Christopher Columbus arrived at the Bahamas, believing them to be Asia.

1860 – British and French troops captured Beijing.

1931 – The first international conference on calendar reform was held.

1960 – Nikita Khrushchev took off his shoe and banged it on the table during a session of the UNESCO General Assembly.

1968 – Guinea gained independence.

1968 – Enriqueta Basilio became the first woman to light the Olympic torch.

1972 – Mariner 9 captured images of Mars's North Pole.

1984 – The IRA detonated a bomb at a hotel where Margaret Thatcher was staying; the explosion claimed five lives.

1988 – Israel and China signed a trade agreement and established diplomatic relations.