On This Day: October 12th

2022 Bratislava shooting, killing 3 (including the perpetrator) and injuring one. The shooting occurred outside of a gay bar in Bratislava known as Tepláreň. Two people (excluding the perpetrator) died as a result of the shooting: Juraj Vankulič, a non-binary person, and Matúš Horváth, a bisexual man. The perpetrator (Juraj Krajčík) was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot the morning after the attack.

Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.

Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.

The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing three workers and injuring 30 others.

Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.

An apartment building collapse in Medellín, Colombia results in the deaths of twelve people.

The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.