Today in history: On Oct. 12, 2002, bombs blamed on al-Qaida-linked militants destroyed two nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, many of whom were foreign tourists. Also on this date: In 1492, Christopher Columbus’s first expedition made landfall on what is now San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. In 1870, General Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia, at age 63. In 1960, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev protested remarks at the United Nations by pounding his shoe