The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing three workers and injuring 30 others.

1031 Canal was a partially collapsed 190-foot-tall (58 m) multi-use high-rise building in New Orleans, Louisiana, located at 1031 Canal Street in the Central Business District. If completed, the project would have been known as the Hard Rock Hotel New Orleans.

October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 80 days remain until the end of the year.