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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_12" title="October 12">October 12</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1799" title="1799">1799</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Genevi%C3%A8ve_Garnerin" title="Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin">Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin</a></b> became the first woman to make a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute" title="Parachute">parachute</a> descent, falling 900 m (3,000 ft) in a hot-air balloon gondola.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890" title="1890">1890</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uddevalla_Suffrage_Association" title="Uddevalla Suffrage Association">Uddevalla Suffrage Association</a></b> was founded in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uddevalla" title="Uddevalla">Uddevalla</a>, Sweden, with the purpose of bringing about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage" title="Universal suffrage">universal suffrage</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928" title="1928">1928</a> – An "<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung" title="Iron lung">iron lung</a></b>" medical <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventilator" title="Ventilator">ventilator</a> was used for the first time, to treat an eight-year-old girl paralyzed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio" title="Polio">polio</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933" title="1933">1933</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">United States Department of Justice</a> acquired a military prison on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz_Island" title="Alcatraz Island">Alcatraz Island</a>, transforming it over the next year into the last-resort <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz_Federal_Penitentiary" title="Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary">Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960" title="1960">1960</a> – Soviet leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a> reportedly <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-banging_incident" title="Shoe-banging incident">pounded his shoe on a desk</a></b> during the Plenary Meeting of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">United Nations General Assembly</a> in response to Filipino delegate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Sumulong" title="Lorenzo Sumulong">Lorenzo Sumulong</a>'s assertion of Soviet colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosthenes" title="Demosthenes">Demosthenes</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 322 BC); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1875); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Shamsul_Huq" title="Muhammad Shamsul Huq">Muhammad Shamsul Huq</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1912); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Hale" title="Emily Hale">Emily Hale</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1969)</p>
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