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November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 49 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an , the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty , for fifteen days.1028 - Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII .1439 - Plymouth , England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament .1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism .1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly , the first Mayor of Paris , is guillotined .1847 - Sir James Young Simpson , a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic .1892 - William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association .1893 - The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan - the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations.1905 - (November 12 and November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic .1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica .1918 - Austria becomes a republic.1920 - Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo .1922 - The Sigma Gamma Rho sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana .1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party , leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union .1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster .1936 - In California , the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.1938 - Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl .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.1941 - World War II: The Soviet cruiser "Chervona Ukraina Battle of Sevastopol .
1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal , which would last for three days.1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz Tallboy bombs off Tromsø , Norway .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 .1958 - A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley .1969 - Vietnam War : My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, 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 .1978 - As Bishop of Rome Pope John Paul II takes possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran .1979 - Iran hostage crisis : In response to the hostage situation in Tehran , US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran .1980 - The NASA space probe Voyager I Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.1981 - Space Shuttle program : Mission STS-2 , utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia , marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.1982 - In the Soviet Union , Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev .1982 - Lech Wałęsa , a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.
1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan , becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web .
1991 - Dili Massacre , Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili , East Timor .1993 - Decree of President of Kazakhstan "About introducing national currency of Republic of Kazakhstan " is issued.1996 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi , killing 349.1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing .1998 - Vice President of the United States Al Gore signs the Kyoto Protocol .1998 - Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler .
1999 - The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale .2001 - In New York City , American Airlines Flight 587 , an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic , crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport , killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.2001 - 2001 Attack on Afghanistan : Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan , ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2003 - Iraq war : 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.2003 - With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial railway systems.
2006 - The region South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia .
Births
1493 - Bartolomeo Bandinelli , Italian sculptor (d. 1560)1528 - Qi Jiguang , Chinese general (d. 1588)1547 - Claude of Valois , French princess (d. 1575)1606 - Jeanne Mance , French Canadian settler (d. 1673)1615 - Richard Baxter , English clergyman (d. 1691)1651 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz , Mexican mystic and author (d. 1695)1729 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville , French explorer (d. 1811)1755 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst , Prussian general (d. 1813)1795 - Thaddeus William Harris , American naturalist (d. 1856)1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton , American women's rights activist (d. 1902)1817 - Bahá'u'lláh , Prophet Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)1833 - Alexander Borodin , Russian composer and chemist (d. 1887)1840 - Auguste Rodin , French sculptor (d. 1917)1842 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)1848 - Eduard Müller , member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)1850 - Mikhail Chigorin , Russian chess player (d. 1908)1866 - Sun Yat-sen , 1st President of the Republic of China (d. 1925)1881 - Olev Siinmaa , Estonian architect (d. 1948)1881 - Maximilian von Weichs , German field marshal (d. 1954)
1886 - Günther Dyhrenfurth , German born geologist, geographer and Himalayan explorer (d. 1975)1886 - Ben Travers , British playwright (d. 1980)1889 - DeWitt Wallace , American magazine publisher (d. 1981)1890 - Lily Kronberger , Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)1896 - Salim Ali , Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)1898 - Leon Štukelj , Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)1903 - Jack Oakie , American actor (d. 1978)1908 - Harry Blackmun , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1999)1908 - Amon Göth , commandant of Nazi concentration camp (d. 1946)
1910 - Dudley Nourse , South African cricketer (d. 1981)1911 - Buck Clayton , American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)1915 - Roland Barthes , French critic and writer (d. 1980)1916 - Jean Papineau-Couture , French Canadian composer (d. 2000)1916 - Paul Emery , British racing driver (d. 1993)
1916 - Rogelio de la Rosa , Filipino actor and politician (d. 1986)
1917 - Jo Stafford , American singer (d. 2008)1920 - Richard Quine , American actor (d. 1989)1922 - Kim Hunter , American actress (d. 2002)1923 - Vicco von Bülow , German film director1924 - Sam Jones , jazz bassist (d. 1981)1927 - Yutaka Taniyama , Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)1928 - Bob Holness , English presenter and actor1929 - Michael Ende , German writer (d. 1995)1929 - Princess Grace of Monaco , American Actress, Royalty (d. 1982)
1930 - Ann Flood , American actress1931 - Bob Crewe , American songwriter and producer (The Four Seasons )1934 - Charles Manson , American cult leader1936 - Mills Lane , American judge and boxing referee1936 - Mort Shuman , American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
1938 - Denis DeJordy , Canadian ice hockey player1939 - Ruby Nash Curtis , American singer (Ruby & the Romantics )1939 - Lucia Popp , Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
1940 - Michel Audet , Quebec economist and politician1940 - Jürgen Todenhöfer , German politician
1943 - Brian Hyland , American singer1943 - Wallace Shawn , American actor and playwright
1943 - Bjorn Waldegard , Swedish rally driver
1944 - Booker T. Jones , American musician and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's )1944 - Al Michaels , American television sportscaster
1945 - Tracy Kidder , American journalist and author1945 - Neil Young , Canadian singer and musician
1947 - Ron Bryant , American baseball player1947 - Patrice Leconte , French film director and screenwriter
1947 - Buck Dharma , American musician (Blue Öyster Cult )
1948 - Errol Brown , English singer (Hot Chocolate )1948 - Cliff Harris , American football player
1949 - Ron Lapointe , Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 1992)1952 - Ronald Burkle , American entrepreneur1953 - Vasilis Karras , Greek singer1958 - Nick Stellino , Italian-American television chef1958 - Megan Mullally , American actress and singer
1959 - Vincent Irizarry , American actor1960 - Maurane , Belgian singer1961 - Nadia Comaneci , Romanian gymnast1961 - Enzo Francescoli , Uruguayan footballer
1961 - Jonathan Nossiter , American film director
1961 - Michaela Paetsch , American violinist
1962 - Naomi Wolf , American author and feminist1962 - Neal Shusterman , American author
1962 - Mark Hunter , Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Brix Smith , American musician and songwriter (The Fall , The Adult Net )
1962 - Mariella Frostrup , Norwegian born journalist and television presenter
1963 - Susumu Terajima , Japanese actor1963 - Sam Lloyd , Actor and A Capella singer (Scrubs )
1964 - David Ellefson , American musician (Megadeth )1965 - Lex Lang , American voice actor1967 - Michael Moorer , American boxer1967 - Grant Nicholas , British singer (Feeder )
1968 - Glenn Gilberti , American professional wrestler1968 - Aya Hisakawa , Japanese voice actress and singer
1968 - Sammy Sosa , Dominican baseball player
1968 - Aaron Stainthorpe , British singer (My Dying Bride )
1969 - Ian Bremmer , American political scientist1969 - Jason Cundy , English footballer and broadcaster
1969 - Johnny Gosch , American kidnap victim
1969 - Kathleen Hanna , American singer and songwriter
1970 - Donna Adamo , American professional wrestler1970 - Tonya Harding , American figure skater
1970 - Craig Parker , New Zealand actor
1970 - Harvey Stephens , British actor
1972 - Vassilis Tsiartas , Greek footballer1973 - Mayte Garcia , American dancer1973 - Radha Mitchell , Australian actress
1974 - Tamala Jones , American actress1975 - Nina Brosh , Israeli model and actress1975 - Angela Watson , American actress
1975 - Jason Lezak , American swimmer
1976 - Tevin Campbell , American R&B musician1976 - Judith Holofernes , German singer (Wir sind Helden )
1976 - Mirosław Szymkowiak , Polish footballer
1977 - Dalene Kurtis , American model1977 - Lee Murray , English mixed martial artist
1977 - Benni McCarthy , South African footballer
1978 - Andrew Kinlochan , English singer and musician1978 - Alexandra Maria Lara , Romanian/German actress
1978 - Ashley Williams , American actress
1978 - Lena Yada , American actress, model, surfer, and professional wrestler
1979 - Matt Cappotelli , American professional wrestler1979 - Corey Maggette , American basketball player
1979 - Cote de Pablo , Chilean/American actress
1980 - Trent Acid , American professional wrestler1980 - Ryan Gosling , Canadian actor
1981 - DJ Campbell , English footballer1982 - Anne Hathaway , American actress1982 - Mikele Leigertwood , English footballer
1983 - Carlton Cole , English footballer1984 - Sepp De Roover , Belgian footballer1984 - Omarion , American R&B musician
1984 - Sandara Park , South Korean actor
1984 - Conrad Rautenbach , Zimbabwean rally driver
1986 - Evan Yo , Taiwanese pop singer1987 - Bryan Little , Canadian ice hockey player
Deaths
607 - Pope Boniface III 1035 - Canute the Great 1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)1434 - King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)1555 - Stephen Gardiner , English statesman1567 - Anne de Montmorency , Constable of France (b. 1493)1595 - John Hawkins , English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)1606 - St. Nicholas Owen (martyr ), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales 1667 - Hans Nansen , Danish statesman (b. 1598)1671 - Thomas Fairfax , English Civil War general (b. 1612)1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann , German physician and chemist (b. 1660)1757 - Colley Cibber , English poet (b. 1671)1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly , first Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)1836 - Juan Ramón Balcarce , Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell , English novelist (b. 1810)1916 - Percival Lowell , American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)1939 - Norman Bethune , Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)1941 - Abe "Kid Twist" Reles , American mobster (b. 1907)1944 - Otto Blumenthal , German mathematician (b. 1876)1948 - Umberto Giordano , Italian composer (b. 1867)1955 - Alfréd Hajós , Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)1965 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin , Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)1969 - Liu Shaoqi , Former Chairman of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)1972 - Rudolf Friml , Czech composer of operettas (b. 1879)1976 - Walter Piston , American composer (b. 1894)1976 - Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich , Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
1981 - William Holden , American actor (b. 1918)1984 - Chester Himes , American author (b. 1909)1990 - Eve Arden , American actress (b. 1908)1993 - H. R. Haldeman , White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926)1994 - Wilma Rudolph , American runner (b. 1940)1997 - Carlos Surinach , Spanish composer (b. 1915)2000 - Leah Rabin , wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin , (b. 1928)2000 - Franck Pourcel , French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
2001 - Tony Miles , English chess player (b. 1955)2003 - Cameron Duncan , New Zealand director (b. 1986)2003 - Kay E. Kuter , American actor (b. 1925)
2003 - Penny Singleton , American actress (b. 1908)
2003 - Tony Thompson , American drummer (Chic , Power Station ) (b. 1954)
2003 - Jonathan Brandis , American actor (b. 1976)
2005 - William G. Adams , former mayor of St. John's , Newfoundland , Canada (b. 1923)2006 - General Jacob E. Smart , US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909)2007 - Khanmohammed Ibrahim , Indian cricketer (b. 1919)2007 - Ira Levin , American novelist (b. 1929)
2008 - Catherine Baker Knoll , 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, (b. 1930)2008 - Mitch Mitchell , English musican (b. 1947)
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