This is our day guide for Friday October 12th 2018 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?
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| General Information for October 12th 2018 | |
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| There are 6 public holidays today. | |
| Day 285 of 2018 | |
| 80 days left in 2018 | |
| Week 41 of the year | |
| On this Day in History | |
| 1979 - The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip. | |
| 1960 - Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Unioncolonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe | |
| 1901 - President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House. | |
| 1492 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies. |