Historical timeline for October 12

2022 Bratislava shooting occurs outside a gay bar, killing 3 (including the perpetrator) and injuring one.

The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing three workers and injuring 30 others.

Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.

Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.

The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.

An apartment building collapse in Medellín, Colombia results in the deaths of twelve people.

The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.

Terrorists detonate bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 and wounding over 200.

Two Israeli reservists are lynched by a Palestinian mob at the police station of Ramallah.

The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.

Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.

The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.

The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.

New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First.

Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 crashes near Natanz, Iran, killing all 66 people on board.

The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.

A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.

Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.