Wikislippy:Selected anniversaries/October 12
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- Today - Mother's Day in Republic of Malawi.
- 1773 - America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
- 1901 - President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
- 1964 - The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit.