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Monday, 12 October 2026
1928 W Gordon Smith, playwright 
1929 Christopher Plummer, Stage and screen actor is born
1929 Albert Paulsen, Guayaquil Ecuador, actor (Doctors' Hospital).
1929 Knut Algot Hakanson, composer, dies at 42.
1930 George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him.
1930 Genevieve Page, actress (Day and the Hour)
1934 Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St NYC
1934 Richard Darryl Zanuck, film producer/executive
1935 Bonno Spieker, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1935 John Nicolson, cricketer (South African lefty batsman 1926-27), dies.
1936 Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash DC.
1938 "Aryanization" decree is enacted, all Jewish property is transferred to Aryan possession.
1938 Los Angeles freezes at 28°F
1939 Battle at La Plata
1940 Dusty Tapscott, cricket (bro of Doodles, 4 and 1 in only S Af Test), dies.
1941 German occupiers forbid National Front and Netherland Union.
1942 Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader
1942 Eleanor Everest Freer, composer, dies at 78
1943 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol.
1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, results in the deaths of 138.
1944 Lupe Velez, actress (Joe Palooka), overdoses on seconal at 34
1945 Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide.
1946 Leon Blum elected French premier.
1947 Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
1947 "Caribbean Carnival" closes at International NYC after 11 perfs
1949 Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capitol to Jerusalem.
1949 AL votes down proposal to revive spitball
1950 "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1951 Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
1951 Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer (Daniel Hjort), dies at 73
1953 KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35000 Robinson retires.
1958 Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed.
1959 Archbishop Makarios elected inaugural president of Cyprus.
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