Daily Calendar for Saturday, October 12, 2019
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Saturday, October 12, 2019
Born
- King Edward VI of England –
- Elmer Sperry (inventor) –
- Eugenio Montale (poet) –
- Doris Miller (Navy Cross recipient) –
- Luciano Pavarotti (opera singer) –
- Chris Wallace (broadcast journalist) –
- Hugh Jackman (actor) –
- Martie Maguire (musician, member of Dixie Chicks) –
- Kirk Cameron (actor) –
- Marion Jones (athlete) –
Died
- Robert E. Lee (American Confederate general) –
- John Denver (musician) –
- Wilt Chamberlain (basketball player) –
- Ray Conniff (bandleader) –
- Bill Shoemaker (jockey) –
Events
- Christopher Columbus first saw New World –
- Bavarian Crown Price Ludwig married Princess Therese of Hildburghausen in Munich. Their wedding celebration lasted for days, and became a yearly tradition known today as “Oktoberfest.” –
- An iron lung respirator used for the first time in Boston, MA –
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show made its television debut. Burns and Allen had been on the radio since 1935 –
- Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson won Nobel Peace Prize –
- U.S.S.R.’s Voskhod 1 launched –
- The U.S. Navy concluded its Sealab II program, in which teams of aquanauts lived and worked in a capsule submerged off the California coast –
- 19th Summer Olympic games began, Mexico City, Mexico –
- Jesus Christ Superstar, the Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, premieres in New York –
- Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize –
Weather
- The Columbus Day “Big Blow” in Oregon and Washington brought 100 mph winds, damaging trees and killing 48 people –