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    History in 12th Oct

  • Attack on USS Cole

    Al-Qaeda launches a suicide bombing against the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors and wounding 38. 

  • Pledge of Allegiance recited

    The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by public school students during the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas.

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  • Columbian voyage sees land

    During Christopher Columbus' first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, Juan Rodrigo Bermejo, a sailor on the Pinta, spots an island in the Bahamas, becoming the first European to see the New World since the Vikings.

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