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Old 10-11-2010, 07:24 PM
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October 12th
1864 ~ Death of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, author of the Dred Scott decision.

1870 ~ Death of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Leader.

1968 ~ Summer Olympics open in Mexico City.

1977 ~ Four Palestinians hijacked a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demanded release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.

1984 ~ UK PM Margaret Thatcher narrowly escaped an IRA bomb attack.

1970 ~ Birthday of Julian, Porn actor.

1986 ~ Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev failed to agree on Star Wars at a disarmament summit in Reykjavik.

1999 ~ Death of Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player.

2000 ~ Terrorists attacked the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden.

2002 ~ A terrorist bomb at a Bali nightclub killed 202 people, mainly Australians.
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