November 12
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.
1028 - Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of dying Constantine VIII
1439 - Plymouth , England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament .
1905 - (November 12 & 13 ) Norway holds referendum in favour 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.
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 .
1933 - Hugh Gray of the British Aluminium Company takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster ; four of them turn out to be blank, while the last one is later proven to be a hoax .
1934 - The musical Babes in Toyland Laurel and Hardy ).
1936 - In California , the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1938 - Hermann Göring announces Nazi Germany 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.
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 Norway .
1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago 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 attempts to destroy a rotting beached Gray 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 .
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 - The NASA space probe Voyager I Saturn .
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 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 opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili , East Timor .
1992 - Absolutely Fabulous BBC1 .
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.
2002 - Special Extended DVD Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 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.
2004 - Scott Peterson is found guilty of first degree murder of his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn son Conner after a five-and-a-half month long trial.
2004 - Official Guided by Voices Day in Los Angeles, California .
Births
1493 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli , Italian sculptor (d. 1560 )
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton , women's rights activist (d. 1902 )
1817 - Mírzá Husayn-'Alí (Bahá'u'lláh ), 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 , American publisher (Reader's Digest ) (d. 1981 )
1896 - Salim Ali , Indian ornithologist (d. 1987 )
1903 - Jack Oakie , American actor (d. 1978 )
1908 - Harry Blackmun , Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1999 )
1910 - Kurt Hoffmann , film director
1915 - Roland Barthes , French critic and writer (d. 1980 )
1917 - Jo Stafford , American singer
1920 - Sunset Carson , actor (d. 1990 )
1920 - Richard Quine , American actor (d. 1989 )
1922 - Kim Hunter , American actress (d. 2002 )
1923 - Vicco von Bülow , known as Loriot, German graphic artist, actor and film director
1929 - Michael Ende , German writer (d. 1995 )
1929 - Grace Kelly , Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress (d. 1982 )
1930 - Ann Flood , American actress
1934 - Charles Manson , American cult leader and mass murderer
1943 - Brian Hyland , American singer
1943 - Wallace Shawn , American actor and playwright
1944 - Booker T. Jones , American musician, singer, and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's )
1944 - Al Michaels , American television sportscaster
1945 - Neil Young , Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician
1961 - Nadia Comaneci , Romanian gymnast
1966 - David Schwimmer , American actor
1968 - Sammy Sosa , Dominican baseball player
1970 - Tonya Harding , American figure skater
1978 - Andrew Kinlochan , English singer and musician
1980 - Ryan Gosling , Canadian actor
1980 - Akira Hasegawa , actor
1982 - Anne Hathaway , American actress
Deaths
607 - Pope Boniface III
1035 - Canute the Great
1094 - Duncan II of Scotland
1671 - Thomas Fairfax , English general during the English Civil War (b. 1612 )
1757 - Colley Cibber , English poet (b. 1671 )
1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell , English novelist (b. 1810 )
1941 - Abe "Kid Twist" Reles , American mobster (b. 1907 )
1955 - Alfréd Hajós , Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878 )
1976 - Walter Piston , American composer (b. 1894 )
1981 - William Holden , American actor (b. 1981 )
1984 - Chester Himes , American author (b. 1909 )
1990 - Eve Arden , American actress (b. 1908 )
1993 - H. R. Haldeman , Watergate scandal figure (b. 1926 )
1994 - Wilma Rudolph , American runner (b. 1940 )
2001 - Tony Miles , English chess player (b. 1955 )
2003 - Jonathan Brandis , American actor (b. 1976 )
2003 - Penny Singleton , American actress (b. 1908 )
2003 - Tony Thompson , drummer for The Power Station (b. 1954 )
Holidays and observances
External links
November 11 - November 13 - October 12 - December 12 -- listing of all days
