On this day in history - Today, October, 12

Today in History

• 1979 Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Hits the Bookstores

  The first in a “trilogy of five”, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, or H2G2, is a popular comedy

• 1968 Equatorial Guinea Gains Independence

  The African republic was part of the Spanish Empire since the late 1700s. Known as Spanish Guinea,

• 1964 First Multi Person Space Flight

  Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 1 carried 3 cosmonauts for the first time to space. It was also the first

• 1960 Nikita Khrushchev's Famous Shoe Pounding Incident

  The First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union removed his shoe and pounded it on t

• 1492 Christopher Columbus Steps Foot on the New World

  Two months after he had set sail from Spain with crews on 3 ships – the Santa María, the Pinta, and