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November 12

From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.

November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining.

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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

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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 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.
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 off the coast of 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 makes its closest aproach to 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 airs its first episode on 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 is released.
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.
2004 - Resignation of Colin Powell as Secretary of Defense.

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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)
1850 - Mikhail Chigorin, chess player (d. 1908)
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
1958 - Megan Mullally, actress on Will & Grace
1961 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast
1966 - David Schwimmer, American actor
1968 - Aaron Stainthorpe, My Dying Bride's vocalist
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