November 12
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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 [change]
- 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.
- 1918 – Austria becomes a republic.
- 1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with complete control of the Soviet Union.
- 1936 – The San Francisco Bay Bridge is opened.
- 1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days.
- 1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches one of the most successful bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz off the coast of Norway.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
- 1975 – The Comoros join the UN.
- 1980 – The Voyager 1 space probe takes images of Saturn's rings.
- 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 Brezhnev.
- 1982 – Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is released.
- 1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
- 1991 – Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
- 2001 – Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Northern Alliance troops.
- 2001 – A plane crash in the New York Borough of Queens kills all (260) of those on board, and 5 people on the ground. It had come down shortly after take-off and was bound for the Dominican Republic.
- 2004 – Official Guided by Voices Day in Los Angeles, California.
- 2004 – Resignation of Colin Powell as United States Secretary of Defense.
- 2011 – In the wake of an economic crisis, Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy.
Births [change]
- 1493 – Bartolomeo Bandelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
- 1547 – Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575)
- 1615 – Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
- 1729 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
- 1755 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (d. 1813)
- 1790 – Letitia Christian Tyler, American First Lady, wife of John Tyler (d. 1842)
- 1815 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)
- 1817 – Baha'u'llah, religious leader (d. 1892)
- 1833 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (d. 1887)
- 1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
- 1842 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Raleigh, English physicist (d. 1919)
- 1850 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
- 1865 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician (d. 1925)
- 1911 – Chad Varah, British founder of the Samaritans telephone helpline (d. 2007)
- 1915 – Roland Barthes, French writer and philosopher (d. 1980)
- 1923 – Vicco von Buelow (Loriot), German comedian, humorist, producer and writer (d. 2011)
- 1929 – Michael Ende, German writer (d. 1995)
- 1929 – Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
- 1933 – Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq
- 1934 – Vava, Brazilian footballer (d. 2002)
- 1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader
- 1935 – Lyudmila Gurchenko, Russian actress and singer (d. 2011)
- 1936 – Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (d. 2004)
- 1938 – Benjamin Mkapa, former President of Tanzania
- 1945 – Neil Young, Canadian singer
- 1946 – Krister Henriksson, Swedish actor
- 1949 – Jack Reed, American politician
- 1958 – Megan Mullally, American actress
- 1961 – Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast
- 1961 – Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
- 1964 – Thomas Berthold, German footballer
- 1964 – Vic Chesnutt, American musician (d. 2009)
- 1968 – Kathleen Hanna, American musician and activist
- 1968 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican baseball player
- 1970 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater
- 1974 – Alessandro Birindelli, Italian footballer
- 1975 – Dario Simic, Croatian footballer
- 1976 – Miroslaw Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
- 1977 – Benni McCarthy, South African footballer
- 1980 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
- 1982 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
- 1983 – Carlton Cole, English footballer
Deaths [change]
- 1035 – Canute the Great, Danish king of England, Denmark, Norway and part of Sweden (b. 995)
- 1094 – King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
- 1139 – King Magnus IV of Norway (b. 1115)
- 1202 – King Canute VI of Denmark (b. 1163)
- 1595 – John Hawkins, English shipbuilder, merchant, and slavetrader (b. 1532)
- 1793 – Jean Silvain, French politician, first Mayor of Paris (executed on the Guillotine) (b. 1736)
- 1836 – Juan Ramon Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
- 1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English writer (b. 1810)
- 1903 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
- 1916 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer (b. 1855)
- 1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
- 1948 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
- 1969 – Liu Shaoqi, Chinese revolutionary and politician (b. 1898)
- 1974 – Thorbergur Thordarson, Icelandic writer (b. 1889)
- 1990 – Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
- 2000 – Leah Rabin, widow of Yitzhak Rabin (b. 1928)
- 2007 – Ira Levin, American writer (b. 1929)
- 2010 – Henryk Gorecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
