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October 12:

Book releases
 * 2010 - Knot Gneiss by Piers Anthony
 * 2010 - The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
 * 2010 - The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

Television series Births
 * 1974 - Star Trek: The Animated Series, an animated science fiction television series, begins airing on NBC
 * 2007 - Wizards of Waverly Place, a fantasy teen sitcom, begins airing on Disney Channel
 * 1928 - Thomas Burnett Swann (d. 1976), an American poet, critic and fantasy author

Deaths
 * 1964 - Pat Frank (b. 1908), the pen name of American writer, newspaperman, and government consultant Harry Hart Frank, best known for his 1959 post-apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon