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Today, October 12, 2025
October 12, 1810: Oktoberfest: -- The
citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of
the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese
of Saxe-Hildburghausen. The Oktoberfest (Wiesn, Oktobafest) is the
world's largest "Volksfest" (German: "People's
Festival", a large event in German-speaking countries which
usually combines a beer festival or wine festival and a travelling
funfair), featuring a beer festival and a travelling carnival. It
is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is a 16- to
18-day folk festival running from mid- or late-September to around
the first Sunday in October, with more than six million
international and national visitors attending the event. Locally,
it is called d'Wiesn, after the colloquial name for the
fairgrounds, Theresienwiese. The Oktoberfest is an important part
of Bavarian culture, having been held since the year 1810. Other
cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations that
are modeled after the original Munich event. During the event,
large quantities of Oktoberfest Beer are consumed. For example,
during the 16-day festival in 2014, 7.7 million litres (66,000 US
bbl; 1,700,000 imp gal) were served, making it the year where the
most beer was consumed at the Oktoberfest. Visitors also enjoy
numerous attractions, such as amusement rides, sidestalls, and
games. There is also a wide variety of traditional foods
available. The Munich Oktoberfest originally took place in the
16-day period leading up to the first Sunday in October. In 1994,
this longstanding schedule was modified in response to German
Reunification. As a result, if the first Sunday in October falls
on the 1st or the 2nd, then the festival would run until 3 October
(German Unity Day). Thus, the festival now runs for 17 days when
the first Sunday is October 2 and 18 days when it is October 1. In
2010, the festival lasted until the first Monday in October (4
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Today, October 12, 2025
October 12: National Freethought Day: --
On October 12, 1692: The Salem Witch Trials were ended by a letter
from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips. In
honor of this, National Freethought Day was established as an
annual encouragement of all people regardless of their faith and
beliefs to be free thinkers and base their opinions on facts,
science, logic, and reason. The day promotes logic and
evidence-based decision making. Additionally, the observance
offers an opportunity for freethinkers to have a sense of
community. It also provides a way to open a dialogue and share
their opinions. To observe National Freethought Day, think
rationally, and use #FreethoughtDay to post on social media.
Several groups since at least 1997 have promoted Freethought Day.
Organizations such as the Freethought Society, American Humanist
Association, and Secular Coalition For America are just a few. The
organizers selected the date of October 12th due to a series of
events dating back to the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. Throughout
the trials, questionable evidence and accusers' claims of
witnessing devils and specters caused the case to halted.
Eventually, the hysteria surrounding the case and a letter written
by the Massachusetts Governor William Phips on October 12th
declared "spectral evidence" inadmissible in court. Up
until that point, at least 20 accused had already been executed.
The governor's letter saved hundreds of lives. At some point, the
trials did resume and "spectral evidence" was allowed
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Today, October 12, 2025
October 12, 1492: Columbus Day (Actual):
-- Christopher Columbus makes landfall in the Americas. His
landing place was an island in the Bahamas, known by its native
inhabitants as Guanahani. Christopher Columbus set sail in the
evening of August 3 from Palos de la Frontera, Spain, with three
ships. The largest ship was a carrack (Spanish: nao), the Santa
Maria (formerly known as the Gallega (Spanish: "Galician")).
The other two ships were smaller caravels. The name of one is
lost: it is known today only by the nickname Pinta, which in
Castilian of the time meant "painted one". The Santa
Clara was nicknamed affectionately the Nina ("the little
one"), a pun on the name of her owner, Juan Nino of Moguer.]
The monarchs forced the citizens of Palos to contribute to the
expedition. The Santa Maria was owned by Juan de la Cosa and
captained by Columbus. The Pinta and the Nina were piloted by the
Pinzon brothers (Martin Alonso and Vicente Yanez). Thus Columbus
embarked on the first of his four great voyages of discovery. The
purpose of this voyage was to find a westerly route to the Far
East; he instead landed on October 12th in the Bahamas, thinking
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Today, October 12, 2025
October 12, 1792: Columbus Day (Actual):
-- The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City
on the 300th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the Americas.
Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the
Americas and elsewhere which officially celebrates the anniversary
of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas on October 12,
1492 (Julian Calendar; it would have been October 21, 1492 on the
Gregorian Proleptic Calendar, which extends the Gregorian Calendar
to dates prior to its adoption in 1582). Christopher Columbus was
an Italian explorer on behalf of Spain, who set sail across the
Atlantic Ocean in search of a faster route to the Far East only to
land at the New World. His first voyage to the New World on the
Spanish ships Santa Maria, Nina, and La Pinta took approximately
three months. Columbus and his crew's arrival to the New World
initiated the Columbian Exchange which introduced the transfer of
plants, animals, culture, human populations, and technology
between the New World and the Old World. The landing is celebrated
as Columbus Day in the United States but the name varies on the
international spectrum. In some Latin American countries, October
12 is known as Dia de la Raza or (Day of the Race). This is the
case for Mexico, which inspired Jose Vasconcelos's book
celebrating the Day of the Iberoamerican Race. Some countries such
as Spain refer the holiday as Dia de la Hispanidad and Fiesta
Nacional de Espana where it is also the religious festivity of la
Virgen del Pilar. Since 2009, Peru has celebrated Dia de los
pueblos originarios y el dialogo intercultural (Indigenous Peoples
and Intercultural Dialogue Day). Belize and Uruguay celebrate it
as Dia de las Americas (Day of the Americas). Giornata Nazionale
di Cristoforo Colombo or Festa Nazionale di Cristoforo Colombo is
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Today, October 12, 2025
October 12, 1901: Official Residences:
The White House: -- President Theodore Roosevelt officially
renames "The Executive Mansion", the official residence
and workplace of the president of the United States, to "The
White House". The White House is located at 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every
U.S. president since John Adams in 1800. The term "White
House" is often used as a metonym for the president and his
advisers. The residence was designed by Irish-born architect James
Hoban in the neoclassical style. Hoban modelled the building on
Leinster House in Dublin, a building which today houses the
Oireachtas, the Irish legislature. Construction took place between
1792 and 1800 using Aquia Creek sandstone painted white. When
Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect
Benjamin Henry Latrobe) added low colonnades on each wing that
concealed stables and storage. In 1814, during the War Of 1812,
the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of
Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the
exterior. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President
James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed Executive
Residence in October 1817. Exterior construction continued with
the addition of the semi-circular South portico in 1824 and the
North portico in 1829. Because of crowding within the executive
mansion itself, President Theodore Roosevelt had all work offices
relocated to the newly constructed West Wing in 1901. Eight years
later in 1909, President William Howard Taft expanded the West
Wing and created the first Oval Office, which was eventually moved
as the section was expanded. In the main mansion, the third-floor
attic was converted to living quarters in 1927 by augmenting the
existing hip roof with long shed dormers. A newly constructed East
Wing was used as a reception area for social events; Jefferson's
colonnades connected the new wings. East Wing alterations were
completed in 1946, creating additional office space. By 1948, the
residence's load-bearing exterior walls and internal wood beams
were found to be close to failure. Under Harry S. Truman, the
interior rooms were completely dismantled and a new internal
load-bearing steel frame constructed inside the walls. Once this
work was completed, the interior rooms were rebuilt. The
modern-day White House complex includes the Executive Residence,
West Wing, East Wing, the Eisenhower Executive Office Building-the
former State Department, which now houses offices for the
president's staff and the vice president-and Blair House, a guest
residence. The Executive Residence is made up of six stories-the
Ground Floor, State Floor, Second Floor, and Third Floor, as well
as a two-story basement. The property is a National Heritage Site
owned by the National Park Service and is part of the President's
Park. In 2007, it was ranked second on the American Institute of
Architects list of "America's Favorite Architecture". On
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Today, October 12, 2025
October 12, 1917: The European Civil War:
World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World
War I): The Western Front Of World War I: The Battles Of Ypres
(The Battle Of Ypres): The Battle Of Passchendaele (The Third
Battle Of Ypres): The First Battle of Passchendaele: -- The
largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history occurs when
The First Battle Of Passchendaele takes place in the Ypres Salient
of the Western Front, west of Passchendaele village as I Anzac and
II Anzac corps of the Second Army, supported by the Fifth Army to
the north, battled the German 4th Army. The British had planned to
capture the ridges south and east of the city of Ypres; General
Herbert Plumer and Field Marshal Douglas Haig were under the
impression that a big advance had been made towards Passchendaele
Ridge, but in fact most of the ground had been lost to German
counter-attacks in the afternoon.The British attack began
2,000-2,500 yd (1.1-1.4 mi; 1.8-2.3 km) from the village instead
of the 1,500 yd (1,400 m) from it originally conceived by the
British commanders. Air reconnaissance revealed the true position
too late to make substantial changes to the plan. On Passchendaele
Ridge, opposite the I Anzac and II Anzac Corps, the attack was
repulsed, or captured ground was recovered by German
counter-attacks. There were 2,735 New Zealand casualties, of whom
845 men were killed or mortally wounded and stranded in no man'
land. The attack on the right flank of the Fifth Army was a costly
failure, but on the left, the fringe of Houthoulst Forest was
gained. British attacks were postponed until the weather improved
and communications behind the front were restored. The battle was
a German defensive success but was mutually costly and two German
divisions were diverted to Flanders to replace "extraordinarily
high" losses. In the worst weather conditions of the
campaign, despite the fact that the number of troops engaged by
the British amounted to no more than those involved in the July 31
Battle Of Pilckem Ridge, British casualties in October 1917 were
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Today, October 12, 2025
October 12, 1933: Crime: Crime In The
United States: Prisons (Jails, Gaols, Penitentiaries, Detention
Centers, Correction Centers, Correctional Facilities, Remand
Centers): Prisons In The United States: Alcatraz Federal
Penitentiary (United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island;
Alcatraz, The Rock): -- The military Alcatraz Citadel known as
Fort Alcatraz on Alcatraz Island, California becomes the civilian
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, also known as United States
Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island or simply as Alcatraz (Spanish: "The
Gannet", referring to the gannet related to boobies) or The
Rock; it would begin operations as a federal prison on August 11,
1934 and remain in operation until March 21, 1963. Alcatraz was a
maximum high-security federal prison 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the
coast of San Francisco, California. The main prison building was
built in 1910-1912 during its time as a United States Army
military prison; Alcatraz had been the site of a citadel since the
1860s, Alcatraz Citadel, also known as Fort Alcatraz, was the
original military defense and prison on Alcatraz Island. The
United States Disciplinary Barracks, Pacific Branch on Alcatraz
was acquired by the United States Department Of Justice on October
12, 1933, and the island became a prison of the Federal Bureau of
Prisons in August 1934 after the buildings were modernized to meet
the requirements of a top-notch security prison. Given this high
security and the location of Alcatraz in the cold waters and
strong currents of San Francisco Bay, the prison operators
believed Alcatraz to be escape-proof and America's strongest
prison. Alcatraz was designed to hold prisoners who continuously
caused trouble at other federal prisons. One of the world's most
notorious and best known prisons over the years, Alcatraz housed
some 1,576 of America's most ruthless criminals including Al
Capone, Robert Franklin Stroud (the "Birdman of Alcatraz"),
George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Bumpy Johnson, Rafael Cancel
Miranda, Mickey Cohen, Arthur R. "Doc" Barker, Whitey
Bulger, and Alvin "Creepy" Karpis (who served more time
at Alcatraz than any other inmate). It also provided housing for
the Bureau of Prisons' staff and their families. A total of 36
prisoners made 14 escape attempts during the 29 years of the
prison's existence, the most notable of which were the violent
escape attempt of May 1946 known as the "Battle of Alcatraz",
and the arguably successful "Escape from Alcatraz" by
Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin in June 1962 in one
of the most intricate escapes ever devised. Faced with high
maintenance costs and a poor reputation, Alcatraz closed on March
21, 1963. The three-story cellhouse included the main four blocks
of the jail, A-block, B-block, C-block, and D-block, the warden's
office, visitation room, the library, and the barber shop. The
prison cells typically measured 9 feet (2.7 m) by 5 feet (1.5 m)
and 7 feet (2.1 m) high. The cells were primitive and lacked
privacy, with a bed, a desk and a washbasin and toilet on the back
wall, with few furnishings except a blanket. African Americans
were segregated from the rest in cell designation due to racial
abuse being prevalent. D-Block housed the worst inmates and five
cells at the end of it were designated as "The Hole",
where badly behaving prisoners would be sent for periods of
punishment, often brutally so. The dining hall and kitchen lay off
the main building in an extended part where both prisoners and
staff would eat three meals a day together. The Alcatraz Hospital
was above the dining hall. Corridors of the prison were named
after major American streets such as Broadway and Michigan Avenue.
Working at the prison was considered a privilege for inmates and
many of the better inmates were employed in the Model Industries
Building and New Industries Building during the day, actively
involved in providing for the military in jobs such as sewing and
woodwork and performing various maintenance and laundry chores.
Today the penitentiary is a public museum and one of San
Francisco's major tourist attractions, attracting some 1.5 million
visitors annually. The former prison is now operated by the
National Park Service's Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and
the badly eroded buildings of the former prison have been subject
to restoration works in recent times and maintained. Alcatraz
Island is located in San Francisco Bay, 1.25 miles (2.01 km)
offshore from San Francisco, California, United States. The small
island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military
fortification, a military prison (1828), and a federal prison from
1934 until 1963. Beginning in November 1969, the island was
occupied for more than 19 months by a group of Native Americans
from San Francisco, who were part of a wave of Native activism
across the nation, with public protests through the 1970s. In
1972, Alcatraz became part of a national recreation area and
received designation as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.
Today, the island's facilities are managed by the National Park
Service as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area; it is
open to tours. Visitors can reach the island in a little under 15
minutes by ferry ride from Pier 33, located between the San
Francisco Ferry Building and Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco.
Hornblower Cruises and Events, operating under the name Alcatraz
Cruises, is the official ferry provider to and from the island.
Alcatraz Island is home to the abandoned prison, the site of the
oldest operating lighthouse on the West Coast of the United
States, early military fortifications, and natural features such
as rock pools and a seabird colony (mostly western gulls,
cormorants, and egrets). According to a 1971 documentary on the
history of Alcatraz, the island measures 1,675 feet (511 m) by 590
feet (180 m) and is 135 feet (41 m) at highest point during mean
tide. However, the total area of the island is reported to be 22
acres (8.9 ha). Landmarks on the island include the Main
Cellhouse, Dining Hall, Library, Lighthouse, the ruins of the
Warden's House and Officers' Club, Parade Grounds, Building 64,
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October 12, 1935: #BOTD: #HBD! Luciano
Pavarotti, Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his
career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of
the most acclaimed and loved tenors of all times (d. September 6,
2007) is #born on the outskirts of Modena in Northern Italy.
Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce (Knight Of The Grand
Cross) OMRI (Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic) made numerous
recordings of complete operas and individual arias, gaining
worldwide fame for the quality of his tone, and eventually
established himself as one of the finest tenors of the 20th
century, achieving the honorific title "King of the High Cs".
As one of the Three Tenors operatic singing group of Placido
Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti, who performed their
first concert during the 1990 FIFA World Cup before a global
audience, Pavarotti became well known for his televised concerts
and media appearances. From the beginning of his professional
career as a tenor in 1961 in Italy to his final performance of
"Nessun dorma" at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin,
Pavarotti was at his best in bel canto operas, pre-Aida Verdi
roles, and Puccini works such as La boheme, Tosca, Turandot and
Madama Butterfly. He sold over 100 million records, and the first
Three Tenors recording became the best-selling classical album of
all time. Pavarotti was also noted for his charity work on behalf
of refugees and the Red Cross, amongst others. Luciano Pavarotti
died at his home in Modena, Italy of pancreatic cancer, aged 71.
After his death, his manager, Terri Robson, noted in a statement,
"The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the
pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life. In fitting with
the approach that characterised his life and work, he remained
positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his
illness". Pavarotti's funeral was held at Modena Cathedral,
attended by then Prime Minister Romano Prodi and Kofi Annan.] The
Frecce Tricolori, the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian
Air Force, flew overhead, leaving green-white-red smoke trails.
After a funeral procession through the centre of Modena,
Pavarotti's coffin was taken the final ten kilometres (6 miles) to
Montale Rangone, a village part of Castelnuovo Rangone, and was
interred in the Pavarotti family crypt. The funeral, in its
entirety, was also telecast live on CNN. The Vienna State Opera
and the Salzburg Festival Hall flew black flags in mourning.
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( #J.C. Kaelin here: Although the
particular rationale that I am about to describe for the
internment of Japanese Americans was never specifically
articulated, I have personally concluded that it was actually
intended to obtain hostages of Japanese ancestry to use to induce
Imperial Japan not to mistreat the some 1.5 million prisoners and
internees of European ancestry that they had thusfar obtained
since the war began on December 7, with the intention of
preventing the further torture, inhumane treatment and abuse that
they were reportedly being subjected to during their captivity by
the Japanese. - J. C. Kaelin, December 18, 2023.) =========
October 12, 1944: World War II: The United States Home Front
During World War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The
Asiatic-Pacific Theater, The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The
History Of Asian Americans: The History of Japanese Americans: The
Internment Of Japanese Americans: Korematsu v. United States: --
The Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS) concludes hearing
arguments after two days in the Korematsu v. United States case,
in which the plaintiff Fred Korematsu challenged Franklin D.
Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 (EO9066) that cleared the way for
the incarceration of himself, and nearly all 120,000 Japanese
Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised
in the United States that were located in the West Coast Military
Area (The West Coast Of The United States, also known as The
Pacific Coast, The Pacific Seaboard, and the Western Seaboard,
which included the contiguous U.S. states of California, Oregon,
and Washington, as well as the American territories [now states]
of Alaska and Hawaii) during World War II. On December 18: 1944,
SCOTUS issued its landmark ruling on the case, which entirely
supported EO9066; the decision has since been widely criticized,
with some scholars describing it as "an odious and
discredited artifact of popular bigotry", and as "a
stain on American jurisprudence". The case is often cited as
one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time. Chief
Justice John Roberts repudiated the Korematsu decision in his
majority opinion in the 2018 case of Trump v. Hawaii. In the
aftermath of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt had issued Executive Order 9066 on February
19, 1942, authorizing the U.S. War Department to create military
areas from which any or all Americans might be excluded.
Subsequently, the Western Defense Command, a U.S. Army military
command charged with coordinating the defense of the West Coast of
the United States, ordered "all persons of Japanese ancestry,
including aliens and non-aliens" to relocate to internment
camps. However, a 23-year-old Japanese-American man, Fred
Korematsu, refused to leave the exclusion zone and instead
challenged the order on the grounds that it violated the Fifth
Amendment. In a majority opinion joined by five other justices,
Associate Justice Hugo Black held that the need to protect against
espionage by Japan outweighed the rights of Americans of Japanese
ancestry. Black wrote that "Korematsu was not excluded from
the Military Area because of hostility to him or his race",
but rather "because the properly constituted military
authorities...decided that the military urgency of the situation
demanded that all citizens of Japanese ancestry be segregated from
the West Coast" during the war against Japan. Dissenting
justices Frank Murphy, Robert H. Jackson, and Owen J. Roberts all
criticized the exclusion as racially discriminatory; Murphy wrote
that the exclusion of Japanese "falls into the ugly abyss of
racism" and resembled "the abhorrent and despicable
treatment of minority groups by the dictatorial tyrannies which
this nation is now pledged to destroy." The Korematsu opinion
was the first instance in which the Supreme Court applied the
strict scrutiny standard of review to racial discrimination by the
government; it is one of only a handful of cases in which the
Court held that the government met this standard. Korematsu's
conviction was voided by a California district court in 1983 on
the grounds that Solicitor General Charles H. Fahy had suppressed
a report from the Office of Naval Intelligence which stated there
was no evidence that Japanese Americans were acting as spies for
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October 12, 1960: The United Nations: The
History Of The United Nations: The United Nations General Assembly
(French: Assemblee Generale) (UNGA, GA, AG): Sessions Of The
United Nations General Assembly: The Fifteenth Session Of The
General Assembly Of The United Nations: The Cold War: The Cold War
(1953-1962): Nikita Khrushchev's Disruptions Of United Nations
General Assembly Meetings: Nikita Khrushchev's Shoe-Banging
Incident: -- At the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the United Nations
General Assembly, Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, pounds his shoe repeatedly on
his delegate-desk in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate
Lorenzo Sumulong of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted
in Eastern Europe. In 2003, American scholar William Taubman wrote
in his biography of Khrushchev that he accepted that the
shoe-banging had occurred, but also reported that he had
interviewed some eyewitnesses who said that Khrushchev had
brandished his shoe but not banged it. He further reported that no
photographic or video records of the shoe-banging had been found.
There is at least one fake photograph, where a shoe was added into
an existing photograph, and videos that purport to record the
event are poorly staged fabrications with actors, bad lighting and
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Today, October 12, 2025
October 12, 1964: The Premiership Of
Nikita Khrushchev: The 1964 Kremlin Coup: -- On the fourth
anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev's Shoe-Banging Incident, Nikita
Khrushchev is recalled to the USSR when Leonid Brezhnev calls the
Soviet leader to notify him of a special Presidium meeting to be
held the following day, ostensibly on the subject of agriculture,
but actually to inform him of his ouster from power. Even though
Khrushchev suspected the real reason for the meeting, he flew to
Moscow, accompanied by the head of the Georgian KGB, General
Aleksi Inauri, but otherwise taking no precautions. Accordingly,
Khrushchev arrived at the VIP hall of Vnukovo Airport on October
13; KGB chairman Semichastny waited for him there, flanked by KGB
security guards. Semichastny informed Khrushchev of his ouster and
told him not to resist. Khrushchev did not resist, and the
plotters' coup went off smoothly; Khrushchev felt betrayed by
Semichastny, as he considered him a friend and ally until that
very moment, not suspecting that he had joined his enemies within
the Party. Khrushchev was then taken to the Kremlin, to be
verbally attacked by Brezhnev, Suslov and Shelepin. He had no
stomach for a fight, and put up little resistance. Semichastny was
careful not to create the appearance of a coup: "I didn't
even close the Kremlin to visitors. People were strolling around
outside, while in the room the Presidium was meeting. I deployed
my men around the Kremlin. Everything that was necessary was done.
Brezhnev and Shelepin were nervous. I told them: Let's not do
anything that isn't necessary. Let's not create the appearance of
a coup." That night, after his ouster, Khrushchev called
Anastas Mikoyan, President of the Council Of Ministers Of The
Soviet Union, and told him "I'm old and tired. Let them cope
by themselves. I've done the main thing. Could anyone have dreamed
of telling Stalin that he didn't suit us anymore and suggesting he
retire? Not even a wet spot would have remained where we had been
standing. Now everything is different. The fear is gone, and we
can talk as equals. That's my contribution. I won't put up a
fight." On October 14, 1964, the Presidium Of The Supreme
Soviet and the Central Committee each voted to accept Khrushchev's
"voluntary" request to retire from his offices for
reasons of "advanced age and ill health." Leonid
Brezhnev was elected First Secretary (later General Secretary),
while Alexei Kosygin succeeded Khrushchev as premier. Beginning in
March 1964, Supreme Soviet presidium chairman and nominal head of
state Leonid Brezhnev began discussing Khrushchev's removal with
his colleagues, due to Khrushchev's mercurial behavior on the
world stage, in foreign affairs, domestic politics and political
policy. While Brezhnev considered having Khrushchev arrested as he
returned from a trip to Scandinavia in June, he instead spent time
persuading members of the Central Committee to support the ousting
of Khrushchev, remembering how crucial the Committee's support had
been to Khrushchev in defeating the Anti-Party Group plot.
Brezhnev was given ample time for his conspiracy; Khrushchev was
absent from Moscow for a total of five months between January and
September 1964. The conspirators, led by Brezhnev, First Deputy
Premier Alexander Shelepin, and KGB chairman Vladimir Semichastny,
struck in October 1964, while Khrushchev was on vacation at
Pitsunda, Abkhaz ASSR with his close ally Anastas Mikoyan. On
October 12, Brezhnev called Khrushchev to notify him of a special
Presidium meeting to be held the following day, ostensibly on the
subject of agriculture. Even though Khrushchev suspected the real
reason for the meeting, he flew to Moscow, accompanied by the head
of the Georgian KGB, General Aleksi Inauri, but otherwise taking
no precautions. Khrushchev arrived at the VIP hall of Vnukovo
Airport; KGB chairman Vladimir Semichastny waited for him there,
flanked by KGB security guards. Semichastny informed Khrushchev of
his ouster and told him not to resist. Khrushchev did not resist,
and the plotters' coup went off smoothly; Khrushchev felt betrayed
by Semichastny, as he considered him a friend and ally until that
very moment, not suspecting that he had joined his enemies within
the Party. Khrushchev was then taken to the Kremlin, to be
verbally attacked by Brezhnev, Suslov and Shelepin. He had no
stomach for a fight, and put up little resistance. Semichastny was
careful not to create the appearance of a coup: "I didn't
even close the Kremlin to visitors. People were strolling around
outside, while in the room the Presidium was meeting. I deployed
my men around the Kremlin. Everything that was necessary was done.
Brezhnev and Shelepin were nervous. I told them: Let's not do
anything that isn't necessary. Let's not create the appearance of
a coup." That night, after his ouster, Khrushchev called his
friend and Presidium colleague Anastas Mikoyan, and told him "I'm
old and tired. Let them cope by themselves. I've done the main
thing. Could anyone have dreamed of telling Stalin that he didn't
suit us anymore and suggesting he retire? Not even a wet spot
would have remained where we had been standing. Now everything is
different. The fear is gone, and we can talk as equals. That's my
contribution. I won't put up a fight." Khrushchev was granted
a pension of 500 rubles per month and was assured that his house
and dacha were his for life. Following his removal from power, he
fell into deep depression. He received few visitors, especially
since his security guards kept track of all guests and reported
their comings and goings. In the autumn of 1965, he and his wife
were ordered to leave their house and dacha to move to an
apartment and to a smaller dacha in Petrovo-Dalneye. His pension
was reduced to 400 rubles per month, though his retirement
remained comfortable by Soviet standards. The depression
continued, and his doctor prescribed sleeping pills and
tranquillizers. One of his grandsons was asked what the ex-premier
was doing in retirement, and the boy replied, "Grandfather
cries." He was made a non-person to such an extent that the
thirty-volume Great Soviet Encyclopedia omitted his name from the
list of prominent political commissars during the Great Patriotic
War. As the new rulers made known their conservatism in artistic
matters, Khrushchev came to be more favourably viewed by artists
and writers, some of whom visited him. One visitor whom Khrushchev
regretted not seeing was former U.S. Vice President Nixon, then in
his "wilderness years" before his election to the
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Today, October 12, 2025
October 12, 1969: Conspiracy Theories:
Paul Is Dead: The Beatles Plot Broadcast: -- Disc jockey Russ Gibb
breaks the "Paul Is Dead" when he broadcasts "The
Beatles Plot" radio documentary on WKNR-FM Detroit. "Paul
Is Dead" is considered an urban legend and conspiracy theory
which alleges that Paul McCartney, of the English rock band
Beatles, died on November 9, 1966 and was secretly replaced by a
look-alike, most often named as Billy Shears, a character in the
Beatles song Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Rumours of
Paul McCartney's supposed death began circulating around 1967, but
in September 1969, the rumour began spreading across college
campuses in the United States. The rumour was based on perceived
clues found in Beatles songs and album covers. Clue-hunting proved
infectious, and within a few weeks had become an international
phenomenon. According to the theory, McCartney died in a car crash
and, to spare the public from grief, the surviving Beatles
replaced him with the winner of a McCartney look-alike contest,
sometimes identified as "William Campbell" or "Billy
Shears". Afterwards, the band left messages in their music
and album artwork to communicate the truth to their fans. These
include the 1968 song "Glass Onion", in which Lennon
sings "here's another clue for you all / the walrus was
Paul", and the cover photo of their album Abbey Road, in
which McCartney is shown barefoot and walking out of step with his
bandmates. On October 12, 1969, a caller to Detroit radio station
WKNR-FM told disc jockey Russ Gibb about the rumor and its clues.
Gibb and other callers then discussed the rumor on the air for the
next hour. Two days after the WKNR broadcast, The Michigan Daily
published a satirical review of Abbey Road by University of
Michigan student Fred LaBour under the headline "McCartney
Dead; New Evidence Brought to Light". It identified various
clues to McCartney's death on Beatles album covers, including new
clues from the just-released Abbey Road LP. As LaBour had invented
many of the clues, he was astonished when the story was picked up
by newspapers across the United States. Gibb further fueled the
rumor with a special two-hour program on the subject, "The
Beatle Plot", which aired on October 19, 1969, and in the
years since on Detroit radio. Rumours declined after an interview
with McCartney, who had been secluded with his family in Scotland,
was published in Life magazine in November 1969. During the 1970s,
the phenomenon was the subject of analysis in the fields of
sociology, psychology and communications. References to the legend
are still occasionally made in popular culture. McCartney himself
poked fun at it with his 1993 live album, titling it Paul Is Live,
with cover art parodying clues allegedly placed on the cover of
the Beatles' album Abbey Road. In 2009, Time magazine included
"Paul Is Dead" in its feature on ten of "the
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Today, October 12, 2025
October 12: National Farmer's Day: -- An
annual offering of much-deserved praise to the hard-working
farmers across the nation! In the midst of harvest-season, the day
pays tribute to the men, women, and families who put food in the
grocery stores and on our tables every day. National Farmer's Day
was previously known as Old Farmer's Day; records of National
Farmer's Day events exist dating back to the 1800s. From very
early in American culture, farmers set an example with their
endless hard work. Not only do they provide a nation with the food
we eat, but they also contribute to our economy in numerous ways.
Before seeds even find their way into the ground, farmers supply a
stream of jobs. From manufacturing, marketing, and tourism,
farmers keep small and large communities going strong. Some cities
and towns across the United States celebrate their own versions of
Farmer's Day. Dates are scattered throughout the year with
celebrations and festivals. Many of them are held in September and
October. October does seem fitting for celebrating this National
Day as it is near the end of the harvest. Many farmers will be
able to take a rest from their hard labor to join in the
celebration of this holiday. To observe #NationalFarmersDay,
thanking a farmer! Also consider these opportunities to learn more
about farming: Learn more about the farm-to-table process.
Discover more about all the foods you consume. Attend small-town
festivals. These often showcase the food and culture of farm life.
By supporting the festivals, you're also supporting the farmer and
their communities. Support local farmers by buying fruits and
vegetables from a farmer's market. Investing in cooperative
farming. More fun and educational farm experiences are found at
pumpkin patches. These farm settings offer a wide variety of
activities full of autumn produce often grown locally. When you
show your support for your farmers, you also support your
community! Visit your local small-town historical societies. Not
only do they record the history of the town, but with it the
history of the farmers who helped to build the foundations of
small-town America.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12: National Savings Day: -- An
annual recognizion of those who value the act of saving, and a day
to demonstrate that getting started with savings isn't as
difficult as it may seem. Many of us already save every day. We've
been doing it for a long time. We collect sentimental items
because they mean something to us and they evoke emotion. These
objects come in all forms. For some, it might be a baseball glove
that reminds you of playing catch with your dad. Another person
may save an engagement ring passed down through generation. Others
save boxes full of t-shirts representing years of concerts. We
save lots of things for extended periods of time, and they
accumulate quite well. Transferring this concept to a portion of
our paycheck every month isn't that far of a stretch. Consider the
savings account your junk drawer or the sock basket. Only when a
savings account is overflowing, you won't be so annoyed. To
observe National Savings Day: Open a savings account if you don't
already have one. Save a portion of your paycheck each week. Set
it up with your account to be automatically deposited. You'll
never miss it. Before you know it, you'll have a portion saved up.
Setting goals helps, too. Share your tips for saving money. Visit
with a savings professional for more ways to save. And use
#NationalSavingsDay to be a part of the conversation on social
media! Capital One founded National Savings Day to empower people
to feel more confident about their relationship with money by
educating them on how saving money can be a simple,
straightforward experience that fits more naturally into their
lives and existing behaviors.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12: Spain Hispanic Day (National
Day Of Spain, Hispanic Day, Columbus Day [Actual]): -- Celebrated
annually to mark Christopher Columbus' first landfall in the
Americas. Did you know that Columbus was seeking a direct route to
Asia when he discovered the Americas? Spain Hispanic Day, also
known as Fiesta Nacional de Espana or Dia de la Hispanidad, is an
official holiday in most Hispanic America under different names.
All government administrative buildings and offices, banks, and
stores are closed for the day. The day shines a light on Spanish
identity and heritage - the bond between the old European country
and Spanish-speaking Latin America. Christopher Columbus'
discovery of the Americas significantly changed the continent and
Europe, making Spain the first modern superpower and shaping the
Americas' ethnic, cultural, and political landscapes. Columbus'
first voyage to the New World began on the evening of August 3,
1492. He left the harbor of Palos de la Frontera with three ships:
Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina, with Christopher Columbus
traveling on the first ship. On October 12, 1492, the crew on the
Pinta sighted land and informed Columbus. Then, Columbus and his
men landed on an island and were received by the indigenous Arawak
people. He later named the island San Salvador, though it was
called Guanahani by the locals. He also referred to the indigenous
people as Los Indios, creating a generalized term that will be
used to describe the indigenous people of North, Central, and
South America. Columbus later continued his voyage, exploring
northeast of Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola. In
December of that year, Columbus founded the settlement of La
Navidad in present-day Haiti and left 39 men there, after the
permission of the local chief. On March 15, 1493, Columbus arrived
in Spain with native prisoners. His discoveries were received with
great celebration and quickly spread across Europe. On September
24, 1493, Columbus set sail for the New World with 17 ships and
about 1,500 men. During this voyage, he encountered the islands of
Dominica, Maria-Galante, Montserrat, Antigua, the Virgin Islands,
and more. In November 1493, he returned to Hispaniola and
established a temporary settlement in La Isabela, present-day
Dominican Republic. The Spanish settlers soon introduced the
encomienda system, where indigenous people provided labor for the
Spaniards in return for food, shelter, and protection. That, along
with the introduction of European diseases and the exportation of
enslaved locals, led to a drastic reduction in the indigenous
population. Columbus set sail again on May 30, 1498, locating the
regions of modern-day Central and South America. In 1499, Columbus
was accused of tyranny and corruption. He and his brother were
arrested, shipped to Spain, and spent six weeks in jail. The
Columbus brothers were later absolved of all charges by King
Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and got sponsored for their fourth
voyage to the New World. On May 9, 1502, Columbus returned to the
Americas with a fleet of 30 ships, but only one made it back to
Spain. During this voyage, Columbus explored the coasts of
Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. However, he was impeded by a
storm and shipwrecked in Jamaica, where they remained stranded for
six months. In a desperate attempt to induce the natives to keep
providing for him and his men, Columbus used the lunar eclipse of
February 29, 1504, to scare them. He accurately predicted the
event using Abraham Zacuto's astronomical charts. On June 28,
1504, he and his men were rescued, and they arrived in Spain on
November 7, 1504. Spain's National Day today is a celebration of
the country's heritage. The day is an homage to over 400 million
people across continents united by a common language, history, and
culture. The quintessential Spanish lifestyle is fully displayed -
concerts, street shows, dance, people in regional costumes, and
excellent food and wine. The National Day of Spain has faced many
changes throughout the 20th Century, but many still regard it as
one of the most important days in Spanish history.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12: Day Of The Pluricultural
Nation (Mexico): -- Known as Dia De La Raza (The Day of the Races)
and celebrated across Mexico to mark the official recognition of
the indigenous people of the country, this day also illuminates
the multicultural, multilingual, and multiethnic culture of the
country. The idea behind the day was brought into existence by the
Mexican Senate to motivate the promotion and recognition of
various cultures that coexist in Mexico. Day Of The Pluricultural
Nation promotes, respects, and guarantees the fundamental rights
of indigenous peoples. Seven centuries ago, Christopher Columbus
set out for Asia and ended up on San Salvador Island in North
America. Day Of The Pluricultural Nation is a rejection of the
monolithic culture enforced by Columbus and the celebration of the
indigenous people. On November 19, 2020, the Mexican senate
designated October 12 as the Day Of The Pluricultural Nation with
the endorsement of the Chamber of Representatives. The day
celebrates the triumph of the spirit of Mexican heritage and
rejects the tinges of colonization that continue to haunt the
country. Mexicans from all walks of life deserve the same rights
and opportunities. The day urges both native and non-native
Mexicans to explore their Spanish heritage. More than 15 million
Native Mexicans peacefully inhabit the lands of the country.
Despite the fact that their rights are enshrined in the same
constitution, indigenous people face a slew of institutional
challenges, including a lack of access to primary education, clean
water, and opportunities to build a life outside of their
birthplace. Roughly 25% of Native Mexican women and 15% of Native
Mexican men lack basic education, with only half of the primary
school enrollees making it to graduation. To promote education
among Hispanic students many organizations and companies have
established scholarships for Hispanic students. The day is an
educational experience for all people of Mexico. Seminars,
alongside celebrations across the country, are sponsored by the
Governorate of Public education and the institutes of the
Indigenous peoples and Indigenous, with special guidance from the
President of the Indigenous Affairs Commission.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12: The Day Of Respect For
Cultural Diversity (Argentina): -- This holiday revisits the day
Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas and sparks a
conversation surrounding diversity and the importance of
indigenous communities. It was first observed in 1914 and born as
"Feast Of The Race," but later on, it changed names to
feature autochthonous groups in the forefront. Originally intended
to commemorate the Hispanic influence on the Americas, the day has
since expanded to include all cultures. The Day Of Respect For
Cultural Diversity is observed annually on October 12. Throughout
history, the name change and departure from the traditional date
reflect on how indigenous communities have shone a light on a
different, sometimes overseen, angle of the colonial history of
the Americas. Until a few years ago, the anniversary of
Christopher Columbus' arrival was known as "Dia de la Raza"
(Day of the Race) in Central and South America, commemorating the
first encounters between Europeans and Native Americans. As of
right now, many countries have changed the name to include the
original communities and celebrate the diversity within. As it is
well known, Columbus initially set foot in the Americas on October
12, 1492. While attempting to find a sea route to India, he
arrived at San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. His transatlantic
voyages sparked European exploration and colonization of many
territories. Still, he was not the first European explorer to
access the Americas, with undisputed evidence of Norsemen reaching
the North American mainland centuries before. Argentina observed
the day for the first time in 1917, whereas Chile did in 1922,
Colombia and Venezuela in 1921, and Mexico in 1928, although the
very first instance of this day has been traced back to 1914 when
Spanish minister Faustino Rodriguez-San Pedro created the "Feast
of the Race." Nowadays, this idea is seen as misguided and
disrespectful towards indigenous communities, which is what
inspired the name change. Thus, The Day Of Respect For Cultural
Diversity lives on.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDate Commemorative Memorial Title: Combat
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Today, October 12, 2025( #JCKaelin here: If you stand by the
dock of Bayonne City Park, less than a quarter mile from
EarthStation1 MediaOutlet, you can see, less than 2 1/2 miles
across Newark Bay, into the middle of the narrows of the Kill Van
Kull, directly at Elizabeth's Memorial Waterfront Park - where on
#May17, 1897, the USS Holland (SS-1), the U.S. Navy's first modern
commissioned submarine, was launched from what was then The
Crescent Shipyard!) ========= October 12, 1900: Naval History: The
History Of The United States Navy: The New United States Navy (The
New Navy, The United States Navy 1885-Present): Naval Commissions:
Submarines (Subs): The Holland VI (The USS Holland [SS-1]): -- The
first of the Holland Type VI submarines, The USS Holland, a
submarine which used internal combustion engine power on the
surface and electric battery power underwater, is commissioned at
Newport, Rhode Island, Lieutenant Harry H. Caldwell in commanding.
The vessel was known as The Holland VI when it was launched on May
17, 1897 at Navy Lt. Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard into the
narrows of the Kill Van Kull at the mouth of Newark Bay at
Elizabeth, New Jersey, at the current location of Elizabeth's
Memorial Waterfront Park. USS Holland (SS-1) was not the first
military submarine of the United States, which was the famed 1775
submersible Turtle. USS Holland was originally laid down as
Holland VI at the Crescent Shipyard of Elizabeth, New Jersey for
John Holland's Holland Torpedo Boat Company, and launched on May
17, 1897. She was acquired by the USN on April 11, 1900, and
commissioned on October 12, 1900, Lieutenant H. H. Caldwell
commanding. She was considered to be the first truly successful
craft of her type. The United States Government soon ordered more
submarines from Holland's company, which were to be known as the
Plunger class. These became America's first fleet of underwater
naval vessels. Holland was the first commissioned submarine in the
US Navy and is the first of the unbroken line of submarines in the
Navy. She was the fourth submarine to be owned by the Navy,
however. (The first submarine was Propeller (also known as
Alligator), the second was Intelligent Whale and the third was
Plunger, an experimental submarine, built in 1895, which is not to
be confused with USS Plunger (SS-2).
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1866: #BOTD: #HBD! Ramsay
MacDonald, Scottish journalist, orator, pamphleteer, author and
British politician, first Labour Party member to become Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom, leading minority Labour
governments for nine months in 1924 and then from 1929-31 (d.
November 9, 1937) is #born James McDonald at Gregory Place,
Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland, the illegitimate son of John
MacDonald, a farm labourer, and Anne Ramsay, a housemaid.
Registered at birth as James McDonald (sic) Ramsay, he was known
as Jaimie MacDonald. Illegitimacy could be a serious handicap in
19th-century Presbyterian Scotland, but in the north and northeast
farming communities this was less of a problem; in 1868 a report
of the Royal Commission on the Employment of Children, Young
Persons and Women in Agriculture noted that the illegitimacy rate
was around 15%-nearly every sixth person was born out of wedlock.
James Ramsay MacDonald FRS (ne James McDonald Ramsay) headed a
National Government dominated by the Conservative Party from 1931
to 1935 with the support of only a few Labour members. MacDonald
was expelled from the Labour Party as a result. MacDonald, along
with Keir Hardie and Arthur Henderson, was one of the three
principal founders of the Labour Party in 1900. He was chairman of
the Labour MPs before 1914 and, after an eclipse in his career
caused by his opposition to the First World War, he was Leader of
the Labour Party from 1922. The second Labour Government (1929-31)
was dominated by the Great Depression. He formed the National
Government to carry out spending cuts to defend the gold standard,
but it had to be abandoned after the Invergordon Mutiny, an
industrial action by around 1,000 sailors in the British Atlantic
Fleet that took place on September 15-16 1931, when ships of the
Royal Navy at Invergordon were in open mutiny, in one of the few
military strikes in British history. The mutiny caused a panic on
the London Stock Exchange and a run on the pound, bringing
Britain's economic troubles to a head and forcing it off the Gold
Standard on September 21. 1931. MacDonald called a general
election in 1931 seeking a "doctor's mandate" to fix the
economy. The National coalition won an overwhelming landslide and
the Labour Party was reduced to a rump of around 50 seats in the
House Of Commons. His health deteriorated and he stood down as
Prime Minister in 1935, remaining as Lord President of the Council
until retiring in 1937. He died later that year. MacDonald's
speeches, pamphlets and books made him an important theoretician.
Historian John Shepherd states that "MacDonald's natural
gifts of an imposing presence, handsome features and a persuasive
oratory delivered with an arresting Highlands accent made him the
iconic Labour leader". After 1931, MacDonald was repeatedly
and bitterly denounced by the Labour movement as a traitor to its
cause. Since the 1960s, historians have defended his reputation,
emphasising his earlier role in building up the Labour Party,
dealing with the Great Depression, and as a putative forerunner of
the political realignments of the 1990s and 2000s. Ramsay
MacDonald died on board the liner MV Reina del Pacifico at sea at
the age of 71 with his youngest daughter Sheila at his side. His
funeral was in Westminster Abbey on November 26. After cremation,
his ashes were buried alongside his wife Margaret at Spynie in his
native Morayshire.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 2017: The United Nations: The
History Of The United Nations: United Nations Specialized
Agencies: The United Nations Educational, Scientific And Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) (French: Organisation Des Nations Unies Pour
L'Education, La Science Et La Culture): -- The United States
announces its decision to withdraw from The United Nations
Educational, Scientific And Cultural Organization (UNESCO). a
specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of
promoting world peace and security through international
cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture, and the
announcement is immediately followed by Israel. America effected
this decision on December 31, 2018, but announced it was rejoining
on June 12, 2023 and pay UNESCO more than 600M USD in back dues
because of its concern that China was filling the gap left by the
U.S. in UNESCO policymaking, notably in setting standards for
artificial intelligence and technology education around the world.
Three years later, in 2025, however, the United States stated its
intent to withdraw again, to be effective as of December 2026. As
of 2025, UNESCO has 194 member states and 12 associate members, as
well as partners in the non-governmental, intergovernmental and
private sector. Headquartered in Paris, France, UNESCO has 53
regional field offices and 199 national commissions. UNESCO was
founded in 1945 as the successor to the League of Nations'
International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. UNESCO's
founding mission, which was shaped by the events of World War II,
is to advance peace, sustainable development and human rights by
facilitating collaboration and dialogue among nations. It pursues
this objective through five major programme areas: education,
natural sciences, social/human sciences, culture and
communication/information. UNESCO sponsors projects that improve
literacy, provide technical training and education, advance
science, protect independent media and press freedom, preserve
regional and cultural history, and promote cultural diversity. The
organization prominently helps establish and secure World Heritage
Sites of cultural and natural importance. UNESCO is governed by
the General Conference composed of member states and associate
members, which meets biannually to set the agency's programs and
budget. It also elects members of the executive board, which
manages UNESCO's work, and appoints every four years a
Director-General, who serves as UNESCO's chief administrator.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1964: Rocket Launches: The
History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space
Programs Of The Soviet Union: Human Spaceflight Programs: The
Voskhod Program: Voskhod 1 (Russian: Sunrise 1): -- On the same
day the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was recalled to the USSR
to inform him of his ouster from power, the Soviet Union launches
into Earth orbit the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and
the first flight without space suits, Voskhod 1, at 07:47:04 UTC
atop a Voskhod Rocket launch vehicle from the Baikonur Site 1
(Site 1/5, Gagarin's Start) launch site at Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan. It was the seventh manned Soviet space flight, and
itwas also the first first space mission to carry either an
engineer or a physician into outer space, and it set a manned
spacecraft altitude record of 336 km (209 mi). The three
spacesuits for the Voskhod 1 cosmonauts were omitted because there
was neither the room nor the payload capacity for the Voskhod to
carry them. The original Voskhod had been designed to carry two
cosmonauts, but Soviet politicians pushed the Soviet space program
into squeezing three cosmonauts into Voskhod 1. The only other
space flight in the short Voskhod program, Voskhod 2, carried two
suited cosmonauts - of necessity, because it was the flight on
which Alexei Leonov made the world's first walk in space. As part
of its payload Voskhod 1 carried a ribbon off a Communard banner
from the Paris Commune of 1871 into orbit.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDate Commemorative Memorial Title: Wings
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1983: Aviation: The History
Of Aviation: Corporate Scandals: The Lockheed Bribery Scandals:
The Japanese Lockheed Bribery Scandal: -- Tanaka Kakuei, former
Prime Minister of Japan, is found guilty of violating foreign
exchange and foreign trade laws in 1972 during his term as prime
minister, by not reporting the payment in connection with
accepting 1.8M USD in bribes from the Lockheed Corporation to have
All Nippon Airways purchase (21) Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
airliners, and is sentenced to four years in jail. The scandal
nearly led to Lockheed's downfall, as it was already struggling
due to the commercial failure of the L-1011 TriStar. This scandal
ultimately became part of what is now known as The Lockheed
Bribery Scandals, encompassing of bribes and contributions made by
Lockheed from the late 1950s to the 1970s, scandals causing
considerable political controversy in West Germany, Italy and the
Netherlands as well as Japan. On February 6, 1976, Lockheed
Corporation vice chairman and president Carl Kotchian told a
United States Senate subcommittee about the bribe. Although Henry
Kissinger tried to stop the details from making their way to the
Japanese government, fearing that it would harm the two countries'
security relationship, Prime Minister of Japan Takeo Miki pushed a
bill through the Diet that requested information from the Senate.
Many Tanaka supporters viewed the scandal as an effort by American
multinational corporations to "get" Tanaka in response
to his hard-line stance in trade talks with the United States,
based on the fact that the scandal originated with congressional
testimony in the US. Tanaka was released from the Tokyo Detention
House jail in August on a 200 Y E N (690K USD) bond. Tanaka's
trial did not end his political influence. His faction had 70 to
80 members prior to his arrest in 1976, but grew to over 150
members by 1981, more than one-third of the total LDP
representation in the Diet. In retaliation for Miki's actions,
Tanaka persuaded his faction to vote for Fukuda in the 1976
"Lockheed Election". The two old rivals did not
cooperate for long, however: in 1978, Tanaka threw his faction
behind Ohira's. After Ohira died in 1980, the Tanaka faction
elected Zenko Suzuki. In 1982, Yasuhiro Nakasone was elected
president of the LDP (and therefore as prime minister) amid
allegations from opponents that he would be under Tanaka's
control. The Lockheed trial ended on October 12, 1983. Tanaka was
found guilty and sentenced to 4 years in jail and a 500 million
yen fine. Rather than cave in, he filed an appeal and announced
that he would not leave the Diet as long as his constituents
supported him. This sparked a month-long war in the Diet over
whether or not to censure Tanaka; eventually, Prime Minister
Nakasone, himself elected by Tanaka's faction, dissolved the Diet
and called for a new election, stating that "in view of the
current unusual parliamentary situation, there is a need for
refreshing the people's minds as quickly as possible." In the
"Second Lockheed Election" of December 1983, Tanaka
retained his Diet seat by an unprecedented margin, winning more
votes than any other candidate in the country. The LDP performed
poorly, and Prime Minister Nakasone publicly vowed to distance the
party from Tanaka's politics, stating that the party should be
"cleansed" with a new code of ethics. Nakasone placed
six members of the Tanaka faction on his 1984 cabinet, including
future prime minister Noboru Takeshita.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDate Commemorative Memorial Title:
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1949: #BOTD: Ilich Ramirez
Sanchez, also known as Carlos The Jackal (Spanish: Carlos el
Chacal) or simply Carlos, Venezuelan terrorist and murderer,
currently serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murder of
an informant for the French government and two French
counterintelligence agents, is #born in Michelena, Venezuela.
While in prison he was further convicted of attacks in France that
killed 11 and injured 150 people and sentenced to an additional
life term in 2011, and then to a third life term in 2017. A
committed Marxist-Leninist, Ramirez Sanchez was one of the most
notorious political terrorists of his era, protected and supported
by the Stasi and the KGB. When he joined the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1970, recruiting officer Bassam
Abu Sharif gave him the code name "Carlos" because of
his South American roots. After several bungled bombings, Ramirez
Sanchez led the 1975 raid on the Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OPEC) headquarters in Vienna, which killed
three people. This was followed by a string of attacks against
Western targets. For many years he was among the most-wanted
international fugitives. Carlos was dubbed "The Jackal"
by The Guardian after one of its correspondents reportedly spotted
Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel The Day of the Jackal near some of
the fugitive's belongings.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1984: The Troubles (The
Northern Ireland Conflict): Failed Assassination Attempts In The
United Kingdom: The Brighton Hotel Bombing: -- The Provisional
Irish Republican Army (IRA) fails to assassinate Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet at the Grand Hotel in Brighton,
England. A long-delay time bomb was planted in the hotel by
Patrick Magee before Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her
cabinet arrived for the Conservative Party conference. Five people
were killed, including the Conservative MP and Deputy Chief Whip
Sir Anthony Berry, and a further 31 were injured. Thatcher
narrowly escaped the explosion.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1537: #BOTD: #HBD: Edward VI,
King Of England And Ireland from January 28, 1547 until his death
(d. July 6, 1553) is #born Prince Edward Tudor in his mother's
room inside Hampton Court Palace, Middlesex, England. He succeeded
to the thrones of England and Ireland after the death of his
father Henry VIII on January 28, 1547, and was crowned on February
20, 1547 at the age of nine. The only surviving son of Henry VIII
by his third wife, Jane Seymour, Edward was the first English
monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm
was governed by a regency council because Edward never reached
maturity. The council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour,
Duke of Somerset (1547-1549), and then by John Dudley, Duke of
Northumberland (1550-1553). Edward's reign was marked by many
economic problems and social unrest that in 1549 erupted into riot
and rebellion. An expensive war with Scotland, at first
successful, ended with military withdrawal from Scotland and
Boulogne-sur-Mer in exchange for peace. The transformation of the
Church of England into a recognisably Protestant body also
occurred under Edward, who took great interest in religious
matters. His father, Henry VIII, had severed the link between the
English Church and Rome but continued to uphold most Catholic
doctrine and ceremony. It was during Edward's reign that
Protestantism was established for the first time in England with
reforms that included the abolition of clerical celibacy and the
Mass, and the imposition of compulsory English in church services.
In 1553, at age 15, Edward fell ill. When his sickness was
discovered to be terminal, he and his council drew up a "Devise
for the Succession" to prevent the country's return to
Catholicism. Edward named his Protestant first cousin once
removed, Lady Jane Grey, as his heir, excluding his half-sisters,
Mary and Elizabeth. This decision was disputed following Edward's
death, and Jane was deposed by Mary - the elder of the two
half-sisters - nine days after becoming queen. Mary, a Catholic,
reversed Edward's Protestant reforms during her reign, but
Elizabeth restored them in 1559. Edward VI died at the age of 15
at Greenwich Palace at 8 pm. According to John Foxe's account of
his death, his last words were: "I am faint; Lord have mercy
upon me, and take my spirit". Edward was buried on August 8,
1553 immediately to the west of his grandfather Henry VII's tomb
in the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey, right under the Chapel's
original altar, with reformed rites performed by Thomas Cranmer.
The procession was led by "a grett company of chylderyn in
ther surples" and watched by Londoners "wepyng and
lamenting"; the funeral chariot, draped in cloth of gold, was
topped by an effigy of Edward, with crown, sceptre, and garter. A
monument was designed but not realised, leaving Edward's burial
place unmarked right up until 1966, when an inscribed stone was
laid in the chapel floor by Christ's Hospital school to
commemorate its founder. The inscription reads as follows: "In
Memory Of King Edward VI Buried In This Chapel This Stone Was
Placed Here By Christ's Hospital In Thanksgiving For Their Founder
7 October 1966". The cause of Edward VI's death is not
certain. As with many royal deaths in the 16th century, rumours of
poisoning abounded, but no evidence has been found to support
these. The Duke of Northumberland, whose unpopularity was
underlined by the events that followed Edward's death, was widely
believed to have ordered the imagined poisoning. Another theory
held that Edward had been poisoned by Catholics seeking to bring
Mary to the throne. The surgeon who opened Edward's chest after
his death found that "the disease whereof his majesty died
was the disease of the lungs". The Venetian ambassador
reported that Edward had died of consumption -- in other words,
tuberculosis -- a diagnosis accepted by many historians. Skidmore
believes that Edward contracted tuberculosis after a bout of
measles and smallpox in 1552 that suppressed his natural immunity
to the disease. Loach suggests instead that his symptoms were
typical of acute bronchopneumonia, leading to a "suppurating
pulmonary infection" or lung abscess, septicaemia and kidney
failure.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDate Commemorative Memorial Title: Marcel
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1924: #DOTD: #RIP: Anatole
France, French poet, journalist, and novelist with several
best-sellers, Nobel Prize laureate (b. April 16, 1844) #dies aged
80 in Tours, France. He is buried in the Neuilly-sur-Seine Old
Communal Cemetery near Paris, France. Anatole France was born
Francois-Anatole Thibault in Paris, France. Anatole France was
born Francois-Anatole Thibault in Paris, France. Ironic and
skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of
letters. He was a member of the Academie Francaise (the French
Academy), the principal French council for matters pertaining to
the French language. France took a part in the Dreyfus Affair, a
political scandal that divided the Third French Republic for 12
years in which the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully
convicted of treason, a historic example of a miscarriage of
justice and antisemitism, a scandal in which the role played by
the members of the press such as Anatole France and Emile Zola
proved influential in resolving the conflict in Captain Dreyfus'
favor. France wrote about the affair in his 1901 novel Monsieur
Bergeret. In 1921 France was awarded the Nobel Prize In Literature
"in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements,
characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human
sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament". France is
also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's
literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's masterpiece novel In
Search of Lost Time.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDate Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1910: #BOTD: #HBD! Robert
Fitzgerald, American poet, critic, and translator, best known as a
translator of ancient Greek and Latin whose renderings of the
Greek classics generally, and the works of Homer particularly,
became the standard English translations of ancient Greek works
ever since, composer of several books of his own poetry (d.
January, 1985) is #born Robert Stuart Fitzgerald in Geneva, New
York. Fitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Illinois, and graduated
from The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford,
Connecticut. He entered Harvard in 1929, and in 1931 a number of
his poems were published in Poetry magazine. After graduating from
Harvard in 1933 he became a reporter for the New York Herald
Tribune for a year. Later he worked for several years for Time. In
1940, William Saroyan lists him among "associate editors"
at Time in the play, Love's Old Sweet Song. Whittaker Chambers,
Soviet spy turned U.S. government informant who testified against
Whittaker Chambers before the House Un-American Activities
Committee in 1948, mentions Fitzgerald as a Times colleague in his
1952 memoir "Witness" during them time Chambers was
senior editor at Time. In World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy
in Guam and Pearl Harbor. Later he was an instructor at Sarah
Lawrence and Princeton University, poetry editor of The New
Republic. He succeeded Archibald MacLeish as Boylston Professor of
Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard in 1965 and served until his
retirement in 1981. He was a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, and a Chancellor of The Academy Of American
Poets. From 1984 to 1985 he was appointed Consultant In Poetry To
The Library Of Congress, a position now known as Poet Laureate
Consultant In Poetry, the United States' equivalent of a national
poet laureate, but did not serve due to illness. In 1984
Fitzgerald received a L.H.D. from Bates College. Fitzgerald is
widely known as one of the most poetic translators into the
English language. He also served as literary executor to American
novelist, short story writer, and essayist Flannery O'Connor, who
was a boarder at his home in Redding, Connecticut, from 1949 to
1951. Fitzgerald's wife at the time, Sally Fitzgerald, compiled
O'Connor's essays and letters after O'Connor's death. Benedict
Fitzgerald (who co-wrote the screenplay for The Passion Of The
Christ with Mel Gibson), Barnaby Fitzgerald, and Michael
Fitzgerald are sons of Robert and Sally. Fitzgerald was married
three times. He later moved to Hamden, Connecticut, where he died
at his home after a long illness, aged 74. His burial details are
not publicly disclosed.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1934: #BOTD: #HBD! Sugar Boy
Crawford, African American R & B singer, songwriter and
pianist (d. September 15, 2012) is #born James Crawford, Jr. in
New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the author of "Jock-A-Mo"
(1954), which was later rerecorded as "Iko Iko" by the
Dixie Cups, and became a huge hit. The song was recorded by many
other artists, including Dr. John, Belle Stars, the Grateful Dead,
Cyndi Lauper, and (as "Geto Boys") by Glass Candy. Sugar
Boy Crawford died after a brief illness in a New Orleans,
Louisiana hospice, aged 77. He is buried at Resthaven Memorial
Park cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1955: Aesthetics: The
Performing Arts: Music: Music History: Music Of The United States:
Recording Sessions: First Recordings: Rock And Roll (Rock &
Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): --
The Coasters, an American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal
group who had a string of hits in the late 1950s, is formed.
Beginning with "Searchin'" and "Young Blood"
in 1956, their most memorable songs were written by the
songwriting and producing team of Leiber and Stoller. Although the
Coasters originated outside of mainstream doo-wop, their records
were so frequently imitated that they became an important part of
the doo-wop legacy through the 1960s. The Coasters holds the
distinction of being the first group inducted into The Rock And
Roll Hall Of Fame.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1971: #DOTD: #RIP: Gene
Vincent, American singer and guitarist, pioneer of both rockabilly
and rock and roll whose 1956 top ten hit with his Blue Caps,
"Be-Bop-A-Lula", is considered a significant early
example of rockabilly (b. February 11, 1935) #dies at the age of
36 of a combination of a ruptured ulcer, internal hemorrhage and
heart failure, while visiting his father in Saugus, California. He
is interred at Eternal Valley Memorial Park, in Newhall,
California. Gene Vincent was born Vincent Eugene Craddock, in
Norfolk, Virginia, to Mary Louise and Ezekiah Jackson Craddock.
His musical influences included country, rhythm and blues, gospel
and classical; his favorite composition was Beethoven's Egmont
Overture. Craddock dropped out of school in 1952, at the age of
seventeen, and enlisted in the United States Navy. As he was under
the age of enlistment, his parents signed the forms allowing him
to enter. He completed boot camp and joined the fleet as a crewman
aboard the fleet oiler USS Chukawan, with a two-week training
period in the repair ship USS Amphion, before returning to the
Chukawan. He never saw combat but completed a Korean War
deployment. He sailed home from Korean waters aboard the
battleship USS Wisconsin but was not part of the ship's company.
Craddock planned a career in the Navy and, in 1955, used his 612
USD re-enlistment bonus to buy a new Triumph motorcycle. On July
4, 1955, while he was in Norfolk, his left leg was shattered in an
auto crash. He refused to allow the leg to be amputated, and the
leg was saved, but the injury left him with a limp and pain. He
wore a steel sheath as a leg brace for the rest of his life. Most
accounts relate the accident as the fault of a drunk driver who
struck him. Years later in some of his music biographies, there is
no mention of an accident, but it was claimed that his injury was
due to a wound incurred in combat in Korea. He spent time in the
Portsmouth Naval Hospital and was medically discharged from the
navy shortly thereafter. Craddock became involved in the local
music scene in Norfolk. He changed his name to Gene Vincent and
formed a rockabilly band, Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps (a term
used in reference to enlisted sailors in the U.S. Navy). The band
included Willie Williams on rhythm guitar (replaced in late 1956
by Paul Peek), Jack Neal on upright bass, Dickie Harrell on drums
(died May 31, 2023, at age 82), and Cliff Gallup on lead guitar.
He also collaborated with another rising musician, Jay Chevalier
of Rapides Parish, Louisiana. Vincent and His Blue Caps soon
gained a reputation playing in various country bars in Norfolk.
There they won a talent contest organized by a local radio DJ,
"Sheriff Tex" Davis, who then became Vincent's manager.
In 1956 he wrote "Be-Bop-a-Lula", which drew comparisons
to Elvis Presley and which Rolling Stone magazine later listed as
number 103 on its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Local radio DJ "Sheriff Tex" Davis arranged for a demo
of the song to be made, and this secured Vincent a contract with
Capitol Records. He signed a publishing contract with Bill Lowery
of the Lowery Group of music publishers in Atlanta, Georgia.
"Be-Bop-a-Lula" was not on Vincent's first album and was
picked by Capitol producer Ken Nelson as the B-side of his first
single, "Woman Love". Prior to the release of the
single, Lowery pressed promotional copies of "Be-Bop-a-Lula"
and sent them to radio stations throughout the country. By the
time Capitol released the single, "Be-Bop-a-Lula" had
already gained attention from the public and radio DJs. The song
was picked up and played by other U.S. radio stations (obscuring
the original A-side song) and became a hit, peaking at number 7
and spending 20 weeks on the Billboard pop chart and reaching
number 5 and spending 17 weeks on the Cash Box chart, and
launching Vincent's career as a rock-and-roll star. After
"Be-Bop-a-Lula" became a hit, Vincent and His Blue Caps
were unable to follow it up with the same level of commercial
success, although they released critically acclaimed songs like
"Race with the Devil" (number 96 on the Billboard chart
and number 50 on the Cash Box chart) and "Bluejean Bop"
(number 49 on the Billboard chart and another million-selling
disc).
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1935: #BOTD: #HBD! Sam Moore,
African American soul singer and songwriter who was a member of
the soul and R & B group Sam & Dave from 1961 to 1981 (d.
January 10, 2025) is #born Samuel David Moore in Miami, Florida.
He is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Grammy
Hall of Fame (for "Soul Man"), and the Vocal Group Hall
of Fame. Sam Moore and Dave Prater were both experienced gospel
music singers, having performed individually with groups the
Sensational Hummingbirds and the Melionaires. They met in The King
of Hearts Club in Miami in 1961, where they were discovered by
regional producer Henry Stone, who signed them to Roulette
Records. After modest success at Roulette, they were signed by
Jerry Wexler to Atlantic Records in 1964, then being "loaned"
out to Stax Records to produce, record and release their records.
The duo's November 1965 single, "You Don't Know Like I Know",
started a series of ten straight top twenty Billboard R & B
hits that included "Hold On! I'm Comin'" (1966), "You
Got Me Hummin' (1966), "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby"
(1967), "Soul Man" (1967), and "I Thank You"
(1968). Most of their hits were penned by Isaac Hayes and David
Porter. In most recordings, they were also backed by Hayes on
piano with Booker T and the MGs and The Memphis Horns. The ending
of their association with the Stax record label and their
frequently volatile relationship contributed to their first
break-up in 1970. Sam & Dave performed throughout most of the
1970s until 1981, and enjoyed a brief resurgence in popularity due
to the Blues Brothers's 1979 recording of "Soul Man".
Their last performance together was on December 31, 1981, at the
Old Waldorf in San Francisco. On April 9, 1988, Prater died in a
car crash in Sycamore, Georgia. Moore died following surgery at a
hospital in Coral Gables, Florida, on January 10, 2025, at the age
of 89. He was survived by his wife Joyce MacRae, whom he married
in 1982, and according to The Times Register obituary of January
13, 2025, by his "14 or 15 children by different women".
He is buried at Lakeside Memorial Park in Doral, Miami-Dade
County, Florida.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1948: #BOTD: #HBD! Steve
Martin Caro, rock singer and founding member of baroque pop band
The Left Banke (d. January 14, 2020) is #born Carmelo Esteban
Martin Caro in Madrid, Spain, the son of flamenco guitarist and
vocalist Sarita Heredia. Originally known professionally as Steve
Martin, he added his family surname, Caro, in the 1980s to avoid
confusion with the comedian Steve Martin. Steve Martin Caro died
of heart disease at the age of 71. His remains were cremated; the
final disposition of his ashes are not publicly disclosed.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1997: #DOTD: #RIP: John
Denver, American country and folk singer, songwriter and
guitarist, and actor (b. December 31, 1943) #dies when his light
homebuilt Rutan Long-EZ aircraft crashed into Monterey Bay near
Pacific Grove, California, while making a series of solo
touch-and-go landings at the nearby Monterey Peninsula Airport. He
was the plane's only occupant. Denver was an experienced pilot
with more than 2,700 hours of experience. He had recently
purchased the Long-EZ aircraft, made by someone else from a kit,
and had taken a half-hour checkout flight with the aircraft the
day before the crash. Denver was not legally permitted to fly at
the time of the crash because of his previous arrests for driving
under the influence of alcohol.[67] In 1996, nearly a year before
the crash, the FAA learned that Denver had failed to maintain
sobriety by not refraining entirely from alcohol and revoked his
medical certification. However, it was determined that the crash
was not caused or influenced by alcohol use; an autopsy found no
signs of alcohol or other drugs in Denver's body. The post-crash
investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
showed that the leading cause of the crash was Denver's inability
to switch fuel tanks during flight. The quantity of fuel had been
depleted during the plane's flight to Monterey and in several
brief practice takeoffs and landings Denver performed at the
airport immediately before the final flight. His newly purchased
amateur-built Rutan aircraft had an unusual fuel tank selector
valve handle configuration. The handle had originally been
intended by the plane's designer to be between the pilot's legs.
The builder instead put it behind the pilot's left shoulder. The
fuel gauge was also placed behind the pilot's seat and was not
visible to the person at the controls. An NTSB interview with the
aircraft mechanic servicing Denver's plane revealed that he and
Denver had discussed the inaccessibility of the cockpit fuel
selector valve handle and its resistance to being turned. Upon the
announcement of Denver's death, Colorado Governor Roy Romer
ordered all state flags to be lowered to half-staff in his honor.
Funeral services were held at Faith Presbyterian Church in Aurora,
Colorado, on October 17, 1997, officiated by Pastor Les Felker, a
retired Air Force chaplain, after which Denver's remains were
cremated and his ashes scattered in the Rocky Mountains. Further
tributes were made at the following Grammy and Country Music
Association Awards. John Denver was born Henry John Deutschendorf
Jr. in Roswell, New Mexico, to Erma Louise (nee Swope; 1922-2010)
and Captain Henry John "Dutch" Deutschendorf Sr.
(1920-1982), a United States Army Air Forces pilot stationed at
Roswell Army Air Field. Captain Deutschendorf Sr. was a decorated
pilot who set a number of air speed records in a Convair B-58
Hustler in 1961. In his 1994 autobiography Take Me Home, Denver
described his father as a stern man who could not show his love
for his children. With a military father, Denver's family moved
often, and he found difficulty making friends and assimilating
with children of his own age. The introverted Denver often felt
out of place and did not know where he truly belonged. While
stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, the
Deutschendorfs purchased a house and lived there from 1951 to
1959. Denver lived in Tucson from ages six to 14. During these
years, Denver attended Mansfeld Junior High School and was a
member of the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus for two years. He was
content in Tucson, but his father was transferred to Maxwell Air
Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. The family later moved to
Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, where Denver
graduated from Arlington Heights High School. Denver was
distressed with life in Fort Worth, and in his junior year of high
school he drove his father's car to California to visit family
friends and begin his music career. His father flew to California
in a friend's jet to retrieve him, and Denver reluctantly returned
to Texas to complete his schooling. At age 11, Denver received an
acoustic guitar from his grandmother. He learned to play well
enough to perform at local clubs by the time he was in college.
Denver decided to change his name when Randy Sparks, founder of
the New Christy Minstrels, suggested that "Deutschendorf"
would not fit comfortably on a marquee. Denver attended Texas Tech
University in Lubbock and sang in a folk-music group, "The
Alpine Trio", while studying architecture. He was also a
member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Denver dropped out of
Texas Tech in 1963 and moved to Los Angeles, where he sang in folk
clubs. In 1965, Denver joined The Chad Mitchell Trio, replacing
founder Chad Mitchell. After more personnel changes, the trio
later became known as "Denver, Boise, and Johnson" (John
Denver, David Boise, and Michael Johnson), with whom he appeared
at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 1968, then alone in 1969 and
1970. In 1969, Denver abandoned band life to pursue a solo career
and released his first album for RCA Records, Rhymes &
Reasons. Two years earlier, he had made a self-produced demo
recording of some of the songs he played at his concerts. It
included a song Denver had written called "Babe, I Hate to
Go", later renamed "Leaving on a Jet Plane". He
made several copies and gave them out as Christmas presents. Milt
Okun, who produced records for The Chad Mitchell Trio and folk
group Peter, Paul and Mary, had become Denver's producer as well.
Okun brought the unreleased "Jet Plane" song to Peter,
Paul and Mary. Their rendition hit number one on the Billboard Hot
100. Denver's song also made it to No. 2 in the UK in February
1970, having also made No. 1 on the US Cash Box chart in December
1969. RCA did not actively promote Rhymes & Reasons with a
series of live appearances, but Denver embarked on an impromptu
supporting tour throughout the Midwest, stopping at towns and
cities, offering to play free concerts at local venues. When he
was successful in persuading a school, college, American Legion
hall, or coffeehouse to let him perform, Denver distributed
posters in the town and usually showed up at the local radio
station, guitar in hand, offering himself for an interview. As the
writer of "Leaving on a Jet Plane", Denver was often
successful in gaining some promotional airtime, usually performing
one or two songs live. Some venues let him play for the 'door';
others restricted him to selling copies of the album at
intermission and after the show. After several months of this,
Denver had built a solid fan base, many of whom remained loyal
throughout his career. Denver recorded two more albums in 1970,
Take Me to Tomorrow and Whose Garden Was This, including a mix of
songs he had written and covers of other writers' compositions.
Denver's next album, Poems, Prayers & Promises (1971), was a
breakthrough for him in the United States, thanks in part to the
single "Take Me Home, Country Roads", which went to No.
2 on the Billboard charts despite the first pressings of the track
being distorted. Its success was due in part to the efforts of his
new manager, future Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub, who signed
Denver in 1970. Weintraub insisted on a reissue of the track and
began a radio airplay campaign that started in Denver, Colorado.
Denver's career flourished thereafter, and he had a series of hits
over the next four years. In 1972, Denver had his first Top Ten
album with Rocky Mountain High, with its title track reaching the
Top Ten in 1973. In 1974 and 1975, Denver had a string of four No.
1 songs ("Sunshine on My Shoulders", "Annie's
Song", "Thank God I'm a Country Boy", and "I'm
Sorry") and three No. 1 albums (John Denver's Greatest Hits,
Back Home Again, and Windsong). In the 1970s, Denver's onstage
appearance included long blond hair and wire-rimmed "granny"
glasses. His embroidered shirts with images commonly associated
with the American West were created by the designer and applique
artist Anna Zapp. Weintraub insisted on a significant number of
television appearances, including a series of half-hour shows in
the United Kingdom, despite Denver's protests at the time, "I've
had no success in Britain ... I mean none". In December 1976,
Weintraub told Maureen Orth of Newsweek: "I knew the critics
would never go for John. I had to get him to the people."
After appearing as a guest on many shows, Denver hosted his own
variety and music specials, including several concerts from Red
Rocks Amphitheatre. His seasonal special Rocky Mountain Christmas
was watched by more than 60 million people and was the
highest-rated show for the ABC network at that time. In 1973,
Denver starred in his own BBC television series, The John Denver
Show, a weekly music and variety show directed and produced by
Stanley Dorfman. Denver's live concert special An Evening with
John Denver won the 1974-1975 Emmy Award for Outstanding Special,
Comedy-Variety or Music. When Denver ended his business
relationship in 1982 because of Weintraub's focus on other
projects, Weintraub threw Denver out of his office and accused him
of Nazism. Denver later told Arthur Tobier when the latter edited
his autobiography, "I'd bend my principles to support
something he wanted of me. And of course, every time you bend your
principles - whether because you don't want to worry about it, or
because you're afraid to stand up for fear of what you might lose
- you sell your soul to the devil." Denver was also a guest
star on The Muppet Show, the beginning of the lifelong friendship
between Denver and Jim Henson that spawned two television specials
with the Muppets, A Christmas Together and Rocky Mountain Holiday.
He also tried acting, appearing in "The Camerons are a
Special Clan" episode of the Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law
television series in October 1973 and "The Colorado Cattle
Caper" episode of the McCloud television series in February
1974. In 1977, Denver starred in the hit comedy film Oh, God!
opposite George Burns. He also hosted the Grammy Awards five times
in the 1970s and 1980s and guest-hosted The Tonight Show on
several occasions. In 1975, Denver was awarded the Country Music
Association's Entertainer of the Year award. At the ceremony,
outgoing Entertainer of the Year Charlie Rich presented the award
to his successor after he set fire to the slip of paper containing
the official notification of the award. Some speculated Rich was
protesting the selection of a non-traditional country artist for
the award, but Rich's son disputes that, saying his father was
drunk, taking pain medication for a broken foot and just trying to
be funny. Denver's music was defended by country singer Kathy
Mattea, who told Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly "A lot
of people write him off as lightweight, but he articulated a kind
of optimism, and he brought acoustic music to the forefront,
bridging folk, pop, and country in a fresh way ... People forget
how huge he was worldwide." In 1977, Denver co-founded The
Hunger Project with Werner Erhard and Robert W. Fuller. He served
for many years and supported the organization until his death.
President Jimmy Carter appointed Denver to serve on the
President's Commission on World Hunger. Denver wrote the song "I
Want to Live" as the commission's theme song. In 1979, Denver
performed "Rhymes & Reasons" at the Music for UNICEF
Concert. Royalties from the concert performances were donated to
UNICEF. Denver's father taught him how to fly in the mid-1970s,
which led to their reconciliation. In 1980, Denver and his father
co-hosted an award-winning television special, The Higher We Fly:
The History of Flight. It won the Osborn Award from the
Aviation/Space Writers' Association and was honored by the Houston
Film Festival. In the mid-1970s, Denver became outspoken in
politics. He expressed his ecological interests in the 1975 song
"Calypso", an ode to the eponymous exploration ship RV
Calypso used by Jacques Cousteau. Denver was a supporter of the
Democratic Party and of a number of charitable causes for the
environmental movement, the homeless, the poor, the hungry, and
the African AIDS crisis. He founded the charitable Windstar
Foundation in 1976 to promote sustainable living. Denver's dismay
at the Chernobyl disaster led to precedent-setting concerts in
parts of communist Asia and Europe. During the 1980s, Denver was
critical of Ronald Reagan's administration and remained active in
his campaign against hunger, for which Reagan awarded Denver the
Presidential World Without Hunger Award in 1987. Denver's
criticism of the conservative politics of the 1980s was expressed
in his autobiographical folk-rock ballad "Let Us Begin (What
Are We Making Weapons For?)". In an open letter to the media,
Denver wrote that he opposed oil drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge. He had battled to expand the refuge in the 1980s,
and he praised President Bill Clinton for his opposition to the
proposed drilling. The letter, which Denver wrote in the midst of
the 1996 United States presidential election, was one of the last
he ever wrote. In 1992, Denver and fellow singers Liza Minnelli
and John Oates performed a benefit to fight the passage of
Colorado Amendment 2, an anti-gay ballot measure approved by
voters that prevented Colorado municipalities from enacting
anti-discrimination protections. Denver was also on the National
Space Society's board of governors for many years. Denver's
releases in the late 1970s did not match his earlier success. His
songwriting had begun to focus more on humanitarian and
sustainability causes than on the romantic themes of his earlier
writing. Denver also founded the environmental group Plant-It
2020. His keen interest in solutions to world hunger led him to
visit Africa during the 1980s and to witness firsthand the
suffering caused by starvation. From 1973 to 1979, Denver
performed annually at the fundraising picnic for the Aspen Camp
School for the Deaf, raising half of the camp's annual operating
budget. During the Aspen Valley Hospital's 1.7M USD capital
campaign in 1979, Denver was the largest single donor. In 1983 and
1984, Denver hosted the annual Grammy Awards, as he had previously
done in 1977, 1978, and 1979. In the 1983 finale, he was joined on
stage by folk music legend Joan Baez, with whom Denver led group
rendition of "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Let the
Sunshine In", joined by a number of other prominent
performers like Jennifer Warnes, Donna Summer, and Rick James. In
1984, ABC Sports president Roone Arledge asked Denver to compose
and sing the theme song for the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
Denver complied by writing and singing "The Gold and Beyond".
In 1985, Denver asked to participate in the singing of "We
Are the World" but was rejected despite his previous
commitment to charity work. According to producer Ken Kragen,
Denver was overlooked because some industry professionals felt his
image would hurt the credibility of the song as a pop-rock anthem.
"I didn't agree with this assessment," Kragen said, but
he reluctantly turned Denver down anyway. Denver later wrote in
his 1994 autobiography "Take Me Home" that the rejection
"...broke my heart not to be included." Nonetheless, for
Earth Day 1990, Denver was the on-camera narrator of the
television program In Partnership With Earth with then-EPA
Administrator William K. Reilly. Denver's love of flying attracted
him to NASA, and he became dedicated to the United States' work in
outer space. Denver worked to help bring into being the "Citizens
in Space" program and in 1985 received the NASA Exceptional
Public Service Medal for "helping to increase awareness of
space exploration by the peoples of the world." That same
year, he passed NASA's physical exam and was a finalist for the
first citizen's trip on the Space Shuttle in 1986. After the Space
Shuttle Challenger disaster with teacher Christa McAuliffe aboard,
Denver dedicated his song "Flying for Me" to all
astronauts and continued to support NASA. He entered discussions
with the Soviet space program about purchasing a flight aboard one
of their rockets, but the talks fell through after the price tag
was rumored to be as high as 20M USD. Denver testified before the
Senate Labor and Commerce Committee on the topic of censorship
during a Parents Music Resource Center hearing in 1985. Denver
openly stood with controversial witnesses like Dee Snider of the
heavy metal band Twisted Sister and Frank Zappa in opposing the
PMRC's objectives. Denver also toured Russia in 1985. His eleven
concerts in the USSR were the first by any American artist in more
than 10 years. Denver returned two years later to perform at a
benefit concert for the victims of the Chernobyl disaster. In
October 1992, Denver undertook a multiple-city tour of the
People's Republic of China. He also released a greatest-hits CD
named Homegrown to raise money for homeless charities. In 1994, he
published his autobiography Take Me Home in which he candidly
spoke of his drug use, his marital infidelities, and his history
of domestic violence. In 1997, Denver filmed an episode for the
television series Nature centering on the natural wonders that
inspired many of his best-loved songs. His last song,
"Yellowstone, Coming Home", composed while rafting along
the Colorado River with his son and young daughter, is included.
In the summer of 1997 shortly before his death, Denver recorded a
children's train album for Sony Pictures Kids Zone, All Aboard!,
produced by longtime friend Roger Nichols. The album consisted of
old-fashioned swing, big band, folk, bluegrass, and gospel music
woven into a theme of railroad songs. It won a posthumous Best
Musical Album for Children Grammy, Denver's only Grammy. In 1996,
Denver was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. His final
concert was held in Corpus Christi, Texas, at the Selena
Auditorium on October 5, 1997. Denver's first marriage, in 1967,
was to Annie Martell of St. Peter, Minnesota. She was the subject
of his song "Annie's Song", which he composed in 10
minutes as he sat on a Colorado ski lift. They lived in Edina,
Minnesota, from 1968 to 1971. After the success of "Rocky
Mountain High", inspired by a camping trip with Annie and
some friends, Denver bought a residence in Aspen, Colorado. He
lived in Aspen until his death. The Denvers adopted a boy, Zachary
John, and a girl, Anna Kate, who Denver said were "meant to
be" theirs. Denver once said, "I'll tell you the best
thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad.
When I die, Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's
enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough."
Zachary was the subject of "A Baby Just Like You", a
song that included the line "Merry Christmas, little Zachary"
which he wrote for Frank Sinatra. Denver and Martell divorced in
1982. In a 1983 interview shown in the documentary John Denver:
Country Boy (2013), Denver said that career demands drove them
apart. Martell said they were too young and immature to deal with
Denver's sudden success. To drive home the point that their assets
were being split in the divorce, he cut their marital bed in half
with a chainsaw. Denver married Australian actress Cassandra
Delaney in 1988 after a two-year courtship. Settling at Denver's
home in Aspen, the couple had a daughter, Jesse Belle. Denver and
Delaney separated in 1991 and divorced in 1993. Of his second
marriage, Denver said that "before our short-lived marriage
ended in divorce, she managed to make a fool of me from one end of
the valley to the other." In 1993, Denver pleaded guilty to a
drunken driving charge and was placed on probation. In August 1994
while still on probation, he was again charged with misdemeanor
driving under the influence after crashing his Porsche into a tree
in Aspen. In October 1995, following Denver's drunk-driving
conviction, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) directed
Denver to abstain from alcohol if he wished to continue flying
airplanes. In 1996, the (FAA) determined that Denver was medically
disqualified from operating an aircraft due to his failure to
abstain from alcohol. Although a July 1997 trial resulted in a
hung jury on the second DUI charge, prosecutors later decided to
reopen the case, which was closed only after Denver died in
October 1997. Beyond music, Denver's artistic interests included
painting, but because of his limiting schedule, Denver pursued
photography, saying once, "photography is a way to
communicate a feeling." An exhibition of over 40
never-before-seen photographs taken by Denver debuted at the Leon
Gallery in Denver, Colorado, in 2014. Denver was also an avid
skier and golfer, but his principal interest was in flying.
Denver's love of flying was second only to his love of music. In
1974, Denver bought a Learjet to fly himself to concerts. He was a
collector of vintage biplanes and owned a Christen Eagle aerobatic
plane, two Cessna 210 Centurion airplanes, and a 1997
amateur-built Rutan Long-EZ. On April 21, 1989, Denver was in a
plane accident while taxiing down the runway at Holbrook Municipal
Airport near Holbrook, Arizona in his vintage 1931 biplane. Denver
had stopped to refuel on a flight from Carefree, Arizona, to Santa
Fe, New Mexico. Reports stated wind gusts caught the plane,
causing it to spin around and sustain extensive damage. Denver was
not harmed in the incident.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1989: #DOTD: #RIP: Jay Ward,
American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founder of Jay Ward
Productions, creator and producer of animated TV cartoon shows his
characters Crusader Rabbit, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right,
Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom
Slick, and Super Chicken, designer of the trademark characters for
the Cap'n Crunch, Quisp, and Quake breakfast cereals and creator
of the TV commercials for those products (b. September 20, 1920)
#dies of renal cancer in West Hollywood, aged 69 He is buried in
Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale,
California. Jay Ward was born Joseph Ward Cohen Jr. in San
Francisco, California, the son of Joseph Ward Cohen (1890-1967)
and Mercedes Juanita (nee Troplong) Ward (1892-1972). Jay Ward
also produced the non-animated series Fractured Flickers that
featured comedy redubbing of silent films, as well the tv pilot
The Nut House, consisting of vaudeville humor sufficiently ahead
of its time that one can see foreshadowings of such future
television series as Laugh-In and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1932: #BOTD: #HBD! Dick
Gregory, African American comedian, civil rights activist, social
critic, writer, entrepreneur, conspiracy researcher and actor (d.
August 19, 2017) is #born Richard Claxton Gregory in St. Louis,
Missouri, the son of Lucille, a housemaid, and Presley Gregory.
During the turbulent 1960s, Gregory became a pioneer in stand-up
comedy for his "no-holds-barred" sets, in which he
mocked bigotry and racism. He performed primarily to black
audiences at segregated clubs until 1961, when he became the first
black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences,
appearing on television and putting out comedy record albums.
Gregory was at the forefront of political activism in the 1960s,
when he protested the Vietnam War and racial injustice. He was
arrested multiple times and went on many hunger strikes. He later
became a speaker and author, primarily promoting spirituality.
Gregory died of heart failure at a hospital in Washington, D.C.
where a week prior he was hospitalized with a bacterial infection,
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1999: #DOTD: #RIP: Wilt
Chamberlain, African American professional basketball player who
played as a center, basketball coach, businessman, author and
actor (b. August 21, 1936) #dies of congestive heart failure in
Los Angeles, California, aged 63, having had a history of
cardiovascular disease. A memorial service for Chamberlain was
held at the City of Angels Church of Religious Science in Los
Angeles on October 16, 1999. A second memorial service was held at
his home church, Mount Carmel Baptist Church, in Philadelphia on
October 21, 1999. He remains were cremated, and the ashes were
given to family members. Wilt Chamberlain was born Wilton Norman
Chamberlain in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, into a family of nine
children, the son of Olivia Ruth Johnson, a domestic worker and
homemaker, and William Chamberlain, a welder, custodian, and
handyman. He was a frail child, nearly dying of pneumonia in his
early years and missing a whole year of school as a result.In his
early years, Chamberlain was not interested in basketball because
he thought it was "a game for sissies". Standing at 7 ft
1 in tall, he played in the National Basketball Association (NBA)
for 14 years, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest
players in the sport's history. Several publications have argued
that Chamberlain is the greatest NBA player of all time. He holds
numerous NBA regular season records in scoring, rebounding, and
durability categories; most notably he is the only player to score
100 points in a single NBA game, and average more than 40 and 50
points in a season. Further records that Chamberlain achieved
include being the only player in NBA history to average at least
30 points and 20 rebounds per game in a season, a feat he
accomplished seven times, and the only player to average at least
30 points and 20 rebounds per game over the entire course of his
NBA career. Chamberlain played for the Kansas Jayhawks and the
Harlem Globetrotters before joining the NBA, where he played for
the Philadelphia / San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers,
and the Los Angeles Lakers. During his time in the NBA,
Chamberlain enjoyed an on-court rivalry with Boston Celtics' Bill
Russell. Although Chamberlain suffered a long string of NBA Finals
losses during his career, he had a successful career, winning two
NBA championships, earning four regular-season NBA Most Valuable
Player (MVP) awards, the NBA Rookie of the Year award, one NBA
Finals MVP award, and one NBA All-Star Game MVP award, and he was
selected to thirteen NBA All-Star Games and ten All-NBA Teams
(seven First and three Second teams). He won seven scoring, eleven
rebounding, nine durability, and nine field goal percentage
titles, and he led the league in assists once. He was enshrined in
the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978, elected
into the NBA 35th Anniversary Team in 1980, chosen as one of the
50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996, and in 2021 was named
to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. Chamberlain was known by several
nicknames during his basketball playing career. He disliked the
ones that called attention to his height, such as "Goliath"
and "Wilt the Stilt". A Philadelphia sportswriter coined
the nicknames during Chamberlain's high school days. He preferred
"The Big Dipper", which was inspired by his friends who
saw him dip his head as he walked through doorways. After his
professional basketball career ended, Chamberlain played
volleyball in the short-lived International Volleyball Association
(IVA), was president of the IVA, and is enshrined in the IVA Hall
of Fame for his contributions. He was a successful businessman,
authored several books, and appeared in the 1984 movie Conan the
Destroyer. Chamberlain was also a lifelong bachelor and became
notorious for his statement of having had sexual relations with as
many as 20,000 women.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1884: #BOTD: #HBD! Godfrey
Tearle, British actor who portrayed the quintessential British
gentleman on stage and in both British and US films (d. June 9,
1953) is #born in New York City and brought up in Britain, the son
of British actor/manager George Osmond Tearle (1852-1901) and
American actress Marianne "Minnie" Conway (1852-1896),
the brother of actor Malcolm Tearle, and the half-brother of
silent film star Conway Tearle. Sir Godfrey Seymour Tearle's
maternal grandmother was American actress Sarah Crocker Conway. In
1893, he made his stage debut as young Prince Richard, Duke of
York, in his father's production of Richard III and in 1908 he
appeared in his first film as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. In 1910
he played Prince Olaf in The Prince and the Beggar Maid at the
Lyceum Theatre in London. He became a Shakespearean actor of note,
appearing on stage in the title roles of Othello, Macbeth and
Henry V. His theatrical career was interrupted when he joined the
Royal Artillery for a four-year stint beginning in 1915. In 1924
he starred in the West End production of Frederick Lonsdale's
drama The Fake. In 1935 he appeared in Bernard Merivale's The
Unguarded Hour. One of Tearle's most memorable screen roles was in
Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), in which he portrayed
Professor Jordan, a seemingly respectable country squire whose
missing finger unmasks him as an enemy agent. He was cast as an
RAF gunner in One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942), a German
general in Undercover (film) (1943), an aging First World War
veteran in Medal for the General (1944) and as Franklin D.
Roosevelt in The Beginning or the End, MGM's 1946 account of the
Manhattan Project. Tearle made his Broadway theatre debut in
Carnival in 1919. In his review in The New York Times, Alexander
Woollcott noted, "It is difficult to guess why Godfrey Tearle
should have selected as the vehicle of his American debut the play
called Carnival, which was presented to New York for the first
time last evening at the 44th Street Theatre. It is a spare and
unsubstantial piece at best, and the role it offers him is
distinctly secondary in importance and opportunity."
Additional Broadway credits include The Fake (1924), The Flashing
Stream (1939), and Antony and Cleopatra (1947). Tearle was
knighted in the 1951 King's Birthday Honours List for services to
drama. He was married three times, to actress Mary Malone from
1909 until their divorce in 1932, to starlet Stella Freeman from
1932 until her sudden death in 1936, and to Barbara Palmer from
1937 until their divorce in 1947. For several years at the end of
his life, Tearle lived with the actress Jill Bennett. Godfrey
Tearle died of pneumonia in London, England, aged 68. His burial
details are not publicly known other than that he was buried in
Bedfordshire, England.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1940: Aviation: The History
Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights:
Military Aviation Maiden Flights: -- First flight of the final
form of the first release of the Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik occurs
when the TsKB-57 takes to the air. The production aircraft passed
State Acceptance Trials in March 1941, and was redesignated Il-2
in April. Deliveries to operational units commenced in May 1941.
The prototype The BSh-2 (the BSh stood for "Bronirovani
Shturmovik" or armoured ground attack) was overweight and
underpowered, with the original Mikulin AM-35 1,022 kW (1,371 hp)
engine designed to give its greatest power outputs at high
altitude; because of this it was redesigned as the TsKB-57, a
lighter single-seat design, with the more powerful 1,254 kW (1,682
hp) Mikulin AM-38 engine, a development of the AM-35 optimised for
low level operation. The prototypes TsKB-55 and TskB-57 were built
at Moscow plant #39, at that time the Ilyushin design bureau's
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and Sturmovik, neither of which give correct pronunciation in
English) is a ground-attack aircraft produced by the Soviet Union
in large numbers during the Second World War. To Il-2 pilots, the
aircraft was simply the diminutive "Ilyusha". To the
soldiers on the ground, it was the "Hunchback", the
"Flying Tank" or the "Flying Infantryman". Its
postwar NATO reporting name was "Bark". The Il-2 was
never given an official name and 'shturmovik' is the generic
Russian word meaning ground attack aircraft. The Il-2 aircraft
played a crucial role on the Eastern Front. When factories fell
behind on deliveries, Joseph Stalin told the factory managers that
the Il-2s were "as essential to the Red Army as air and
bread." During the World War II, 36,183 units of the Il-2
were produced, and in combination with its successor, the Ilyushin
Il-10, a total of 42,330 were built, making it the single most
produced military aircraft design in aviation history, as well as
one of the most produced piloted aircraft in history along with
the American postwar civilian Cessna 172 and the Soviet Union's
own then-contemporary Polikarpov Po-2 Kukuruznik multipurpose
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDate Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Vietnam War With Walter Cronkite DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1970: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars:
The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict,
The Resistance War Against America): The United States In The
Vietnam War: Vietnamization: -- President Nixon announces that the
United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas as
a continuation of Nixon administration's policy of Vietnamization,
a policy to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a
program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces
and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same
time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".
Brought on by the Viet Cong's Tet Offensive, the policy referred
to U.S. combat troops specifically in the ground combat role, but
did not reject combat by the U.S. Air Force, as well as the
support to South Vietnam, consistent with the policies of U.S.
foreign military assistance organizations. U.S. citizens' mistrust
of their government that had begun after the offensive worsened
with the release of news about U.S. soldiers massacring civilians
at My Lai (1968), the invasion of Cambodia (1970), and the leaking
of the Pentagon Papers (1971). At a January 28, 1969, meeting of
the National Security Council, General Andrew Goodpaster, deputy
to General Creighton Abrams and commander of the Military
Assistance Command, Vietnam, stated that the Army of the Republic
of Vietnam (ARVN) had been steadily improving, and the point at
which the war could be "de-Americanized" was close.
Secretary Of Defense Melvin Laird agreed with the point, but not
with the language: "What we need is a term like
'Vietnamizing' to put the emphasis on the right issues."
Nixon immediately liked Laird's word. Vietnamization fit into the
broader detente policy of the Nixon administration, in which the
United States no longer regarded its fundamental strategy as the
containment of communism but as a cooperative world order, in
which Nixon and his chief adviser Henry Kissinger were focused on
the broader constellation of forces and the bigger world powers.
Nixon had ordered Kissinger to negotiate diplomatic policies with
Soviet statesman Anatoly Dobrynin. Nixon also opened high-level
contact with China. U.S. relations with the Soviet Union and China
were of higher priority than South Vietnam. Nixon said
Vietnamization had two components. The first was "strengthening
the armed force of the South Vietnamese in numbers, equipment,
leadership and combat skills", while the second was "the
extension of the pacification program [i.e. military aid to
civilians] in South Vietnam." To achieve the first goal, U.S.
helicopters would fly in support; however, helicopter operations
were too much part of ground operations to involve U.S. personnel.
Thus, ARVN candidates were enrolled in U.S. helicopter schools to
take over the operations. As observed by Lieutenant General Dave
Palmer, to qualify an ARVN candidate for U.S. helicopter school,
he first needed to learn English; this, in addition to the
months-long training and practice in the field, made adding new
capabilities to the ARVN take at least two years. Palmer did not
disagree that the first component, given time and resources, was
achievable. However: "Pacification, the second component,
presented the real challenge...it was benevolent government action
in areas where the government should always have been benevolently
active...doing both was necessary if Vietnamization were to work."
The policy of Vietnamization, despite its successful execution,
was ultimately a failure as the improved ARVN forces and the
reduced American and allied component were unable to prevent the
fall of Saigon and the subsequent merger of the north and south,
to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12-13, 1972: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina
Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam
Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): The United States
In The Vietnam War: Race Riots: Race Riots Of The United States
Navy: The USS Kitty Hawk Riot: -- A race riot occurs on the United
States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam
during Operation Linebacker. The USS Kitty Hawk Riot was part of
widespread antiwar protests within the U.S. military which took
place as part of a movement called SOS (Stop Our Ships/Support Our
Sailors) on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk on
the night of October 12-13 1972, off the coast of Vietnam while
participating in Operation Linebacker of the Vietnam War. A report
by the House Armed Services Committee concluded that the rebellion
had been precipitated by orders received to return to Vietnam from
Subic Bay. These orders were given after incidents of sabotage by
U.S. sailors had disabled USS Ranger and USS Forrestal. Kitty Hawk
was eventually forced to retire to San Diego and was removed from
the war.
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Today's
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1870: #DOTD: Robert E. Lee,
military leader of the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War (b.
January 19, 1807) #dies shortly after 9 a.m. in Lexington,
Virginia, from the effects of pneumonia. According to one account,
his last words on the day of his death, were "Tell Hill he
must come up! Strike the tent", but this is debatable because
of conflicting accounts and because Lee's stroke had resulted in
aphasia, possibly rendering him unable to speak. At first no
suitable coffin for the body could be located. The muddy roads
were too flooded for anyone to get in or out of the town of
Lexington. An undertaker had ordered three from Richmond that had
reached Lexington, but due to unprecedented flooding from
long-continued heavy rains, the caskets were washed down the Maury
River. Two neighborhood boys, C.G. Chittum and Robert E. Hillis,
found one of the coffins that had been swept ashore. Undamaged, it
was used for the General's body, though it was a bit short for
him. As a result, Lee was buried without shoes. He was buried
underneath the college chapel now known as University Chapel at
Washington And Lee University, where his body remains. He was born
Robert Edward Lee in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was the son
of a Revolutionary War hero, a graduate of West Point and served
in the U.S. Army for 25 years preceding the Civil War. He fought
under the command of Gen. Winfield Scott during the
Mexican-American war, and was Superintendent of the Military
Academy at West Point. At the outbreak of the American Civil War,
he was offered command of the Union Army, but declined and instead
accepted command of the military and naval forces of Virginia. He
surrendered his army and the Confederate cause to Ulysses S. Grant
at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. His land estate became
Arlington National Cemetary.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1946: #DOTD: #RIP: Joseph
Stilwell, United States Army general who served in the China Burma
India Theater during World War II (b. March 19, 1883) #dies after
surgery for stomach cancer at the Presidio of San Francisco, aged
63. He was still on active duty and five months short of reaching
the army's mandatory retirement age of 64. He was cremated, his
ashes were scattered on the Pacific Ocean, and a cenotaph was
placed at the West Point Cemetery. Among his military decorations
are the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal
with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Legion of Merit degree of
Commander, the Bronze Star, and the Combat Infantryman Badge; the
last award was given to him as he was dying. He was born Joseph
Warren Stilwell in Palatka, Florida. His caustic personality was
reflected in the nickname "Vinegar Joe". Although
distrustful of his Allies, Stilwell showed himself to be a capable
and daring tactician in the field but a lack of resources meant he
was continually forced to improvise. He famously differed as to
strategy, ground troops versus air power, with his subordinate,
Claire Chennault, who had the ear of Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek. General George Marshall, the Army Chief Of Staff,
acknowledged he had given Stilwell "one of the most
difficult" assignments of any theater commander. In
acknowledgment of Stilwell' efforts, the Ledo Road was later
renamed the Stilwell Road by Chiang Kai-shek. The Ledo Road, also
known as the Burma-Ledo Road, was built during World War II so
that the Western Allies could supply the Chinese as an alternative
to the Burma Road, which had been cut by the Japanese in 1942. It
was renamed the Stilwell Road after General Stilwell of the U.S.
Army in early 1945 at the suggestion of Chiang Kai-shek in
recognition of the his difficult and complex military successes
that allowed the road to be built.
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Today's
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1940: #DOTD: #RIP: Tom Mix,
American film actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter
(b. January 6, 1880) #dies of a broken neck when an aluminum
suitcase containing money, traveler's checks, and jewels, situated
behind his head on the package shelf of his 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton
automobile, hurtled forward and struck him when he came upon
construction barriers at a bridge washed away by a flash flood. He
is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Born Thomas Hezikiah Mix in Mix Run, Pennsylvania, he was the star
of many early Western movies between 1909 and 1935. Mix appeared
in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent movies. He was
Hollywood's first Western star and helped define the genre as it
emerged in the early days of the cinema. The radio series Tom Mix
Ralston Straight Shooters was popular throughout most of the 1930s
through the early 1950s, well after Mix's death. Mix never
appeared on these broadcasts (his voice, damaged by a bullet to
the throat and repeated broken noses, was not fit for radio) and
was instead played by radio actors: Artells Dickson (early 1930s),
Jack Holden (from 1937), Russell Thorsen (early 1940s) and Joe
"Curley" Bradley (from 1944).
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1942: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of
World War II: The South West Pacific Area (SWPA): Operation
Cartwheel: The Solomon Islands Campaign: The Battle Of Guadalcanal
(The Guadalcanal Campaign, Operation Watchtower): The Battle Of
Cape Esperance (The Second Battle Of Savo Island, The Sea Battle
Of Savo Island): -- Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in
the Battle Of Cape Esperance. On October 11, on the northwest
coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercepted and
defeated a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the
island. The Battle Of Cape Esperance, also known as the Second
Battle of Savo Island and, in Japanese sources, as the Sea Battle
of Savo Island , took place on 11-12 October 1942 in the Pacific
campaign of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and
United States Navy. The naval battle was the second of four major
surface engagements during the Guadalcanal campaign and took place
at the entrance to the strait between Savo Island and Guadalcanal
in the Solomon Islands. Cape Esperance is the northernmost point
on Guadalcanal, and the battle took its name from this point.
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Today's
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Today, October 12, 2025( #JCKaelin here: Yes indeed, only a few
know where for certain where Mr. Crowley is buried (shhh... ;) )
========= October 12, 1875: #BOTD: Aleister Crowley, English
occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, author, mountaineer
and British intelligence agent (d. December 1, 1947) is #born
Edward Alexander Crowley to a wealthy family in Royal Leamington
Spa, Warwickshire. He was a proponent of the magickal philosphy of
Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding
humanity into the Aeon of Horus in the early 20th century. A
prolific writer, he published widely over the course of his life.
Crowley rejected his parents' fundamentalist Christian Plymouth
Brethren faith to pursue an interest in Western esotericism. He
was educated at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge,
where he focused his attentions on mountaineering and poetry,
resulting in several publications. Some biographers allege that
here he was recruited into a British intelligence agency, working
with MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5; Security Service) or
MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6: Secret Intelligence Service
(SIS)) or both, further suggesting that he remained a spy
throughout his life; the association between intelligence services
and members of occult organizations, as well as the organizations
themselves, is a long-standing one. In 1898 he joined the esoteric
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, where he was trained in
ceremonial magic by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and Allan
Bennett. Moving to Boleskine House by Loch Ness in Scotland, he
went mountaineering in Mexico with Oscar Eckenstein, before
studying Hindu and Buddhist practices in India. He married Rose
Edith Kelly and in 1904 they honeymooned in Cairo, Egypt, where
Crowley claimed to have been contacted by a supernatural entity
named Aiwass, who provided him with The Book of the Law, a sacred
text that served as the basis for Thelema. Announcing the start of
the Aeon of Horus, The Book declared that its followers should "Do
what thou wilt" and seek to align themselves with their True
Will through the practice of magick. After an unsuccessful attempt
to climb Kanchenjunga and a visit to India and China, Crowley
returned to Britain, where he attracted attention as a prolific
author of poetry, novels, and occult literature. In 1907, he and
George Cecil Jones co-founded an esoteric order, the A.'.A'.,
through which they propagated Thelema. After spending time in
Algeria, in 1912 he was initiated into another esoteric order, the
German-based Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), rising to become the
leader of its British branch, which he reformulated in accordance
with his Thelemite beliefs. Through the O.T.O., Thelemite groups
were established in Britain, Australia, and North America. Crowley
spent the First World War in the United States, where he took up
painting and campaigned for the German war effort against Britain,
later revealing that he had infiltrated the pro-German movement to
assist the British intelligence services. In 1920 he established
the Abbey of Thelema, a religious commune in Cefalu, Sicily where
he lived with various followers. His libertine lifestyle led to
denunciations in the British press, and the Italian government
evicted him in 1923. He divided the following two decades between
France, Germany, and England, and continued to promote Thelema
until his death. Crowley gained widespread notoriety during his
lifetime, being a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an
individualist social critic. Crowley has remained a highly
influential figure over Western esotericism and the
counterculture, and continues to be considered a prophet in
Thelema. He is the subject of various biographies and academic
studies. Biographers Richard B. Spence and Tobias Churton have
suggested that Crowley was a spy for the British secret services
and that among other things he joined the Golden Dawn under their
command to monitor the activities of Mathers, who was known to be
a Carlist. Spence suggested that the conflict between Mathers and
the London lodge for the temple was part of an intelligence
operation to undermine Mathers' authority. Spence has suggested
that the purpose of Crowley's trip to Mexico might have been to
explore Mexican oil prospects for British intelligence. Spence has
suggested that his trip to China was orchestrated as part of a
British intelligence scheme to monitor the region's opium trade.
Churton suggested that Crowley had travelled to Moscow on the
orders of British intelligence to spy on revolutionary elements in
the city. Spence and Sutin both claim that Crowley's pro-German
work in the United States was actually a cover for him being a
double agent for Britain, citing his hyperbolic articles in The
Fatherland to make the German lobby appear ridiculous in the eyes
of the American public. Spence also claims that Crowley encouraged
the German Navy to destroy the Lusitania, informing them that it
would ensure the US stayed out of the war, while in reality hoping
that it would bring the US into the war on Britain's side.
Aleister Crowley died at Netherwood of chronic bronchitis
aggravated by pleurisy and myocardial degeneration, aged 72. His
funeral was held at a Brighton crematorium on December 5; about a
dozen people attended, and Louis Wilkinson read excerpts from the
Gnostic Mass, The Book of the Law, and "Hymn to Pan".
The funeral generated press controversy, and was labelled a Black
Mass by the tabloids. Crowley's ashes were sent to Karl Germer in
the US, who buried them in Hampton, New Jersey; various accounts
give the location of the burial as in Germer's garden, or under a
tree on his property; only a few know where for certain.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1915: #DOTD: #RIP: Edith
Cavell, British nurse notable as a pioneer of modern nursing in
Belgium, celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both
sides of the First World War without discrimination, and for
helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied
Belgium, St. Edith Cavell of the Calendar Of Saints Of The
Anglican Church Of England, hero and martyr (b. December 4, 1865)
#dies by execution at the age of 49 at Tir National (National
Shooting Range), Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium when she is
executed by a German firing squad at dawn for helping those Allied
soldiers escape. On instructions from the Spanish minister,
Belgian women immediately buried her body next to Saint-Gilles
Prison in Saint-Gilles, Belgium. After the war, her body was taken
back to Britain for a memorial service at Westminster Abbey, and
then transferred to Norwich, to be laid to rest at Life's Green on
the east side of the cathedral. The King had to grant an exception
to an Order in Council of 1854, which prevented any burials in the
grounds of the cathedral, to allow the reburial. Edith Cavell was
born Edith Louisa Cavell in in Swardeston, a village near Norwich,
a city and district of Norfolk, England. She was arrested under
martial law, accused of treason, found guilty by a court-martial
and sentenced to death, despite international pressure for mercy
Her execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press
coverage. The night before her execution, she said, "Patriotism
is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards
anyone." These words were later inscribed on a memorial to
her near Trafalgar Square. Her strong Anglican beliefs propelled
her to help all those who needed it, both German and Allied
soldiers. She was quoted as saying, "I can't stop while there
are lives to be saved." The Church of England commemorates
her in its Calendar of Saints on the anniversary of her execution,
October 12.
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Today, October 12, 2025October 12, 1925: #BOTD: #HBD! Essie Mae
Washington-Williams (nee Butler), African American teacher and
author, the eldest child of Strom Thurmond, Governor of South
Carolina (1947-1951) and longtime United States senator known for
his pro-segregation politics (d. February 4, 2013) is #born in
Edgefield, South Carolina to Carrie Butler, a 16-year-old
African-American girl who worked as a domestic servant for
Thurmond's parents, and Thurmond, then 22 and unmarried. Essie Mae
grew up in the family of one of her mother's sisters, not learning
of her biological parents until 1938 when her mother came for a
visit and informed Essie Mae she was her mother. She graduated
from college, earned a master's degree, married, raised a family,
and had a 30-year professional career in education. On December
15, 2002, Strom Thurmond's family acknowledged that Ms. Essie Mae
Washington-Williams was indeed the illegitimate, bi-racial
daughter of the former Senator of South Carolina; ironically
Thurmond gained fame and infamy as an arch-segregationist.
Washington-Williams herself did not reveal her father's identity
until she was almost 78 years old, after Thurmond's death at the
age of 100 in 2003. Though he had little to do with her
upbringing, he had paid for her college education and took an
interest in her and her family all his life. In 2005, she
published her autobiography, Dear Senator: A Memoir By The
Daughter Of Strom Thurmond, which was nominated for the National
Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Essie Mae Washington-Williams
died in Columbia, South Carolina, at age 87. She is buried at
Celestial Memorial Gardens in West Columbia, South Carolina.
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