October 12: on this day in history

Historical events

1. 539 BCThe army of Persian ruler Cyrus the Great captured the famous Mesopotamian city of Babylon.
2. 1799Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse became the first woman to parachute from a balloon.
3. 1822Pedro I was proclaimed emperor of newly independent Brazil.
4. 1901US President Theodore Roosevelt officially renamed the presidential residence the 'White House'.
5. 1928The breathing device called the iron lung was used on a patient for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital.

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