October 12 in history: • 1406 – Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reached Seoul after having set out from Java four months before. → go there • 1798 – The Peasants' War began in Overmere, Southern Netherlands, with peasants taking up arms against the French occupiers. → go there • 1917 – First World War: New Zealand troops suffered more than 2,000 casualties, including more than 800 deaths, in the First Battle of Passchendaele, making it the nation's largest loss of life in one day. → go there • 1979 – Typhoon Tip, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, reached a worldwide record-low sea-level pressure of in the western Pacific Ocean. → go there • 2013 – Twelve people were killed in an apartment-building collapse (pictured) in Medellín, leading to new construction laws being passed in Colombia. → go there Died 1758: Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth Wiki link Born 1977: Sohei Kamiya Wiki link Born 1992: Josh Hutcherson Wiki link Died 2024: Alex Salmond Wiki link Pictured: The Space Building after its collapse.