Historical Event on October 12th: First Female Athlete Ignites Olympic Flame
On Sunday, October 12, 2025, it is the 285th day of the year with 80 days remaining. Enriqueta Basilio became the first woman to light the Olympic flame at the Mexico City Summer Games in 1968. Christopher Columbus’s expedition landed on San Salvador Island in 1492. General Robert E. Lee died in 1870. Nikita Khrushchev pounded his shoe at the UN in 1960. Gerald R. Ford was nominated as vice president by Richard Nixon in 1973. Margaret Thatcher survived an IRA bomb in 1984. The USS Cole and Bali nightclub bombings occurred in 2000 and 2002. Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon in under two hours in 2019. Celebrity birthdays include Ned Jarrett, Chris Wallace, Jane Siberry, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hugh Jackman, Martie Maguire, Kirk Cameron, Bode Miller, and Josh Hutcherson.
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