WHAT HAPPENED ON 12. OCTOBER
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Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail. (12. October 1983)
Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31. (12. October 1984)
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China (12. October 1986)
Jaffna University Helidrop: Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap. (12. October 1988)
Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia. (12. October 1988)
Birchandra Manu massacre in Tripura, India (12. October 1988)
Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by republic's Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll. (12. October 1991)
5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died. (12. October 1992)
NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere). (12. October 1994)
Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock. (12. October 1997)
Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup. (12. October 1999)
The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia (12. October 1999)
The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39. (12. October 2000)
Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300. (12. October 2002)
Michael Schumacher wins his 6th Formula One Drivers' championship at the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix to beat the 48 year old record held by Juan Manuel Fangio (12. October 2003)
The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit. (12. October 2005)
51 people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in La Convencion Province in Peru. (12. October 2013)