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This day in history: October 12

1. 1960

   Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly pounded his shoe on a desk during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong.

2. 1960

   Japan Socialist Party leader Inejirō Asanuma was assassinated during a live television recording by a far-right ultra-nationalist using a short sword.

3. 1978

   While in prison for murder, boxer James Scott defeated Eddie "The Flame" Gregory, a leading light heavyweight.

4. 1979

   Typhoon Tip, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, reached a worldwide record-low sea-level pressure of 870 mbar (25.69 inHg) in the western Pacific Ocean.

5. 1984

   The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in a failed attempt to assassinate British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.

6. 1992

   An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 or 5.9 struck south of Cairo, Egypt, killing 545 people.

7. 2013

   Twelve people were killed in an apartment-building collapse in Medellín, leading to new construction laws being passed in Colombia.

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