Today is Sunday, October 12th, day 285 of 2025. There are 80 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On October 12, 1968, Mexican athlete Enriqueta Basilio became the first woman to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the Summer Games in Mexico City.
Also on this day:
In 1492, Christopher Columbus's first expedition made landfall on what is now San Salvador Island in the Bahamas.
In 1870, General Robert E. Lee, former commander in chief of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, died in Lexington, Virginia, at the age of 63.
In 1960, Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev tapped his shoe on the table to protest his remarks at the UN.
In 1973, President Richard Nixon appointed House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.
In 1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people.
In 2000, the destroyer USS Cole was attacked by al-Qaeda suicide bombers while stopping to refuel in the Yemeni port city of Aden, killing 17 people on board.
In 2002, bombings blamed on al-Qaeda-linked militants destroyed two nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.
In 2019, Eliud Kipchoge became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours, crossing the finish line of the INEOS 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria with a time of 1:59:40.
Today's Birthdays: NASCAR Hall of Famer Ned Jarrett is 93 years old. Journalist Chris Wallace is 78 years old. Singer-songwriter Jane Siberry is 70 years old. Actor Hiroyuki Sanada is 65 years old. Jazz musician Chris Bottis is 63 years old. Actor Hugh Jackman is 57 years old. Country musician Marty Maguire (The Chicks) is 56 years old. Actor Kirk Cameron is 55 years old. Olympic gold Medalist skier Bode Miller is 48 years old. Actor Josh Hutcherson is 33 years old.
