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October 12
What happened on this day
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Columbus reaches the Americas
534 years ago
Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Bahamas in 1492. The date is debated and reframed in many places as Indigenous Peoples' Day.
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Fiesta Nacional de España
Spain's national day, marked with a military parade in Madrid, takes its date from Columbus's landfall in the Americas in 1492.
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First iron lung used
98 years ago
A machine that breathes for a patient saves an eight-year-old girl with polio at Boston Children's Hospital in 1928, within a minute of being switched on.
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First Oktoberfest
216 years ago
Munich throws open the fields outside its walls in 1810 for a royal wedding, and never quite stops.
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