On this day: October 12

October 12: Shemini Atzeret (Judaism, 2017); Feast day of Our Lady of the Pillar in the Philippines and Spain; National Day in Spain (1492)

Nikita Khrushchev

• 1398 – The Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Konrad von Jungingen signed the Treaty of Salynas, the third attempt to cede Samogitia to the Knights.
• 1798 – The Peasants' War began in Overmere, Southern Netherlands, with peasants taking up arms against the French occupiers.
• 1917 – First World War: New Zealand troops suffered more than 2,000 casualties, including more than 800 deaths, in the First Battle of Passchendaele, making it the nation's largest loss of life in one day.
• 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (pictured) reportedly pounded his shoe on a desk during the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in response to Filipino delegate Lorenzo Sumulong's assertion of Soviet colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe.
• 1992 – A 5.8 M_B earthquake struck south of Cairo, Egypt, killing 545 people.

Demosthenes (d. 322 BC) · Ramsay MacDonald (b. 1866) · Ricky Wilson (d. 1985)

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