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October 12
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October 12 is the 285 th day of the year (286 th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining until the end of the year.
Deaths
- 1905 - Josephine Shaw Lowell - Progressive reform leader, first female Commissioner of the New York State Board of Charities. She also worked to establish the Newark Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women (1878). [1]
- 1998 - Kenneth Jernigan - American disability advocate. Jernigan was a longtime leader of the National Federation of the Blind beginning in 1968.
