Today in History

10/12/1985 - Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize.

10/12/1977 - 4th test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise

10/12/1973 - Gerald Ford named as Spiro Agnew's successor to vice presidency

10/12/1972 - Mariner 9 took pictures of Martian north pole

10/12/1969 - Soyuz 7 is launched

10/12/1968 - Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.

10/12/1967 - Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 world series

10/12/1964 - USSR launches 1st 3-man crew into space

10/12/1963 - At 4 AM traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck

10/12/1963 - Archaeological digs begin at Masada Israel

10/12/1962 - US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology

10/12/1960 - Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session.

10/12/1957 - 1st coml flight between Cal & Antartica

10/12/1949 - Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US

10/12/1933 - John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County OH jail.

10/12/1933 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)

10/12/1891 - Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated.

10/12/1870 - General Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington VA at age 63.

10/12/1860 - British & French troops capture Peking.

10/12/1492 - Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day.