Today In History: What Happened On Oct 12

★1911: Former cricketer Vijay Merchant was born. ★1929: Sanghsevak Ayyanna Chaudhary born. ★ 1948: Odissi dancer Prothima Bedi born. ★1963: Birth of Narayana Kocherlakota, Indian American economist. ★1986: Death of Telugu film producer, writer and director PS Ramakrishna Rao. ★1981: Film actress Sneha was born. ★World Arthritis Day, the day the Right to Information Act came into force.