OCTOBER 12
2000:Seventeen sailors are killed and 39 are wounded when a boat filled with explosives rams into the USS Cole, a U.S. Navy destroyer refueling in the port of Aden, Yemen. The boat had been steered into the destroyer by two suicide terrorists with possible links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
1492: A sailor aboard the Pinta sights land in the Bahamas, leading Christopher Columbus and his crew to believe they have reached Asia. The first Columbus Day observance is celebrated 300 years later, on Oct. 12, 1792.
1492: A sailor aboard the Pinta sights land in the Bahamas, leading Christopher Columbus and his crew to believe they have reached Asia. The first Columbus Day observance is celebrated 300 years later, on Oct. 12, 1792.
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