历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-12
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October 12th, 1492On this date under the old style calendar, explorer Christopher Columbus lands in the Americas. Columbus sailing under Spain's banner traveled across the Atlantic, trying to seek a route to Asia. His arrival in the Caribbean leads to Europe's colonization1 of the western hemisphere.
2000In the Persian
Gulf2, suicide
bombers3 strike the USS Cole docked in Yemen's port of Aden. They
ram4 the Cole with their boat filled with explosives,
killing5 17 American sailors aboard the destroyer. Osama
Bin6 Laden's Al Qaeda network is blamed for the attack nearly a year before the 9/11 attacks.
1960Political theater during the Cold War at the United Nations in New York,
Soviet7 leader Nikita Khrushchev disrupts the UN General Assembly by pounding his desk with a shoe when a speaker criticizes his country.
2002Terrorist strikes Indonesian island of Bali. That's where a bomb blamed on Islamic
militants8 destroys a nightclub killing 202 people, many of them, foreign tourists.
1935Luciano Pavarotti, considered one of the greatest opera stars of modern times, is born in Modena, Italy.
And 1997Singer John Denver dies when his
privately9 built aircraft crashes in Monterey Bay, California. He was 53 years old.
Today in History, October 12th, Tim Maguire, the Associated Press.
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