october 12: what happened to that day

The expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 reached the island of San Salvador. This date is considered the official date of the "discovery of America".

In 1810, the first Oktoberfest was held. Munich residents were invited to celebrate the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria and Princess Theresa of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

On this day, but in 1884, the Spaniards founded the southernmost city of the Earth - Ushuaia.

In 1901, Theodore Roosevelt officially named the White House.

On October 12, Russian state, public and military figure Count Mikhail Muravyov (1796) was born; Italian chemist, the first to receive nitroglycerin Ascanio Sobrero (1812); Russian and Soviet composer and conductor Mikhail Bagrinovsky (1885); American physicist of Indian origin, one of the founders of fiber optics Narinder Capani (1926).