…12 october…
1492 - Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached East Asia
1810 - First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
1999 - The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007) born
1955 - Ante Gotovina, Croatian general born
1492 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter dead
2006 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919) dead
1946 - L’Italia adotta l’Inno di Mameli come inno nazionale "provvisorio"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_12
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_ottobre

