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November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap
years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days
remaining.
Events
- 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
- 1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the
first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
- 1918 - Austria becomes a republic.
- 1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled
from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed
control of the Soviet Union.
- 1927 - The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking
New Jersey to New York
City.
- 1934 - The musical Babes in Toyland debuts, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as comic relief (see
Laurel and Hardy).
- 1936 - In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to
traffic.
- 1941 - World War II: Temperatures
around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the
Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the
freezing German forces near the city.
- 1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and
American forces begins near Guadalcanal, will last for three days.
- 1944 - World War II: The Royal
Air Force launches one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz off the coast of Norway.
- 1946 - A branch of the Exchange National
Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller
windows.
- 1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese
military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo,
for their roles in World War II.
- 1969 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai
story.
- 1970 - The Oregon Highway Division (now known as the Oregon Department of
Transportation) is given the task of removing a rotting beached Grey whale,
leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident
- 1971 - Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon
sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for
the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
- 1979 - Iran hostage
crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all oil imports
into the United States from Iran.
- 1980 - Voyager program: The
NASA space probe Voyager I makes
its closest aproach to Saturn when it flies within 77,000 miles
of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back
to scientists on Earth.
- 1982 - In the Soviet Union,
Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet
Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I.
Brezhnev.
- 1990 - Crown Prince Akihito becomes the 125th Japanese monarch and takes the title Emperor Akihito of Japan.
- 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the
World Wide Web.
- 1996 - A Saudi
Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, India killing 349.
- 1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found
guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
- 1998 - Daimler-Benz completes a
merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.
- 2001 - In New York City, an
Airbus A300 carrying American Airlines Flight 587 crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International
Airport, killing all 260 on board.
- 2001 - 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Northern Alliance troops.
- 2003 - Occupation of
Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23
people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are
killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
Births
- 1493 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
- 1815 - Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, women's rights activist (d. 1902)
- 1817 - Mírzá Husayn-'Alí (Bahaullah,
founder of the Bahá'í Faith
- 1833 - Alexander
Borodin, Russian composer (d. 1887)
- 1840 - Auguste Rodin, French
sculptor (d. 1917)
- 1866 - Sun Yat-sen, first President
of the Republic of China (d. 1925)
- 1889 - DeWitt Wallace, publisher (Reader's Digest) (d. 1981)
- 1903 - Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
- 1908 - Harry Blackmun,
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade (d. 1999)
- 1910 - Kurt Hoffmann, film director
- 1915 - Roland Barthes, French
writer (d. 1980)
- 1917 - Jo Stafford, singer
- 1920 - Richard Quine, actor
- 1922 - Sunset Carson, actor
- 1922 - Kim Hunter, actress (d.
2002)
- 1923 - Vicco von Bülow,
known as Loriot, graphic artist, actor and film director
- 1929 - Grace Kelly, Princess Grace
of Monaco, actress (d. 1982)
- 1929 - Michael Ende, writer (d.
1995)
- 1930 - Ann Flood, actress
- 1934 - Charles Manson,
murderer
- 1943 - Brian Hyland, singer
- 1943 - Wallace Shawn, actor,
playwright
- 1944 - Booker T. Jones, musician (Booker T and the MG's)
- 1944 - Al Michaels, sports
reporter
- 1945 - Neil Young, singer,
songwriter, musician
- 1961 - Nadia Comaneci,
gymnast
- 1968 - Sammy Sosa, baseball
player
- 1970 - Tonya Harding, figure skating star
- 1978 - Andrew Kinlochan,
singer, musician
Deaths
Holidays and observances
November 11 - November
13 - October 12 - December
12 -- listing of all days
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