Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 12
- 1810 - The first Oktoberfest was held in Munich.
- 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev became enraged at a United Nations conference and told the Filipino delegate that he was "a jerk, a stooge and a lackey of imperialism", then removed one of his shoes and made a move as to bang it on the table.
- 1984 - Brighton hotel bombing: Margaret Thatcher survived a bomb explosion detonated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
- 1999 - A military coup in Pakistan led by General Pervez Musharraf ousted the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
- 2002 - A terrorist bombing on the Indonesian island of Bali killed 202 people.
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