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Friday, October 12, 2012

Today in History

1492   Christopher Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas.
1576   Rudolf II, the king of Hungary and Bohemia, succeeds his father, Maximillian II, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1609   The song "Three Blind Mice" is published in London, believed to be the earliest printed secular song.
1702   Admiral Sir George Rooke defeats the French fleet off Vigo.
1722   Shah Sultan Husayn surrenders the Persian capital of Isfahan to Afgan rebels after a seven month siege.
1809   Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies under mysterious circumstances in Tennessee.
1899   The Anglo-Boer War begins.
1872   Apache leader Cochise signs a peace treaty with General Howard in Arizona Territory.
1933   Alcatraz Island is made a federal maximum security prison.
1943   The U.S. Fifth Army begins an assault crossing of the Volturno River in Italy.
1949   Eugenie Anderson becomes the first woman U.S. ambassador.
1970   President Richard Nixon announces the pullout of 40,000 more American troops in Vietnam by Christmas.
1971   The House of Representatives passes the Equal Rights Amendment 354-23.

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