
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 emperor Zoe (empress) marries Romanus III according to the wishes of dying Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire *1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the List_of_Parliaments_of_England. *1905 - (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds referendum in favour of monarchy over republic. *1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Falcon 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 (1934 movie)'' 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 ° Celsius and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing Germany forces near the city. *1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and United States 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 Germany battleship 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 United States 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 (planet). *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 BBC One. *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 Fellowship of the Ring (movie)'' is released. *2003 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base. *2004 - Laci 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. == 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 (ornithologist), 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 skating *1978 - Andrew Kinlochan, English singer and musician *1980 - Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor * 1980 - Akira Hasegawa, actor *1982 - Anne Hathaway (actress), American actress == Deaths == * 607 - Boniface III * 1035 - Canute the Great * 1094 - Duncan II of Scotland * 1671 - Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax of Cameron, 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 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== *Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day, Birth of Bahá'u'lláh == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/12 BBC: On This Day] ---- November 11 - November 13 - October 12 - December 12 -- historical anniversaries bs:Novembar 12 simple:November 12
--User:Maveric149 00:46, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) Template:November 12 selected anniversaries - Template talk:November 12 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:November_12_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Removed: *1915 - United Kingdom annexes Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Could not be confirmed outside of 'this day in history'-type websites (very bad source). --User:Maveric149 05:40, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC) Moved: *1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates. Nope - happened on November 11. --User:Maveric149 05:40, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC) Removed: *1954 - Ellis Island closes after processing over 20 million immigrants to the United States since its opening in 1892. :Nope - happened on November 29 and 12 million were processed. --User:Maveric149 01:33, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC) :New York Times says it happened on 11/12. [http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20031112.html] What's the source for 11/29? Perhaps we should contact National Park Service for date. --User:TMillerCA 03:42, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC) : I've collected some more comments about this at Talk:Ellis Island. In summary, it seems that both 12th and 29th are widespread. User:Stephen Turner 11:47, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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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. *1028 - Future Byzantine emperor Zoe (empress) marries Romanus III according to the wishes of dying Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire *1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the List_of_Parliaments_of_England. *1905 - (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds referendum in favour of monarchy over republic. *1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Falcon 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 (1934 movie)'' 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 ° Celsius and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing Germany forces near the city. *1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and United States 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 Germany battleship 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 United States 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 (planet). *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 BBC One. *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 Fellowship of the Ring (movie)'' is released. *2003 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base. *2004 - Laci 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. == 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 (ornithologist), 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 skating *1978 - Andrew Kinlochan, English singer and musician *1980 - Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor * 1980 - Akira Hasegawa, actor *1982 - Anne Hathaway (actress), American actress == Deaths == * 607 - Boniface III * 1035 - Canute the Great * 1094 - Duncan II of Scotland * 1671 - Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax of Cameron, 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 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== *Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day, Birth of Bahá'u'lláh == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/12 BBC: On This Day] ---- November 11 - November 13 - October 12 - December 12 -- historical anniversaries bs:Novembar 12 simple:November 12
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--User:Maveric149 00:46, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) Template:November 12 selected anniversaries - Template talk:November 12 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:November_12_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Removed: *1915 - United Kingdom annexes Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Could not be confirmed outside of 'this day in history'-type websites (very bad source). --User:Maveric149 05:40, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC) Moved: *1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates. Nope - happened on November 11. --User:Maveric149 05:40, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC) Removed: *1954 - Ellis Island closes after processing over 20 million immigrants to the United States since its opening in 1892. :Nope - happened on November 29 and 12 million were processed. --User:Maveric149 01:33, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC) :New York Times says it happened on 11/12. [http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20031112.html] What's the source for 11/29? Perhaps we should contact National Park Service for date. --User:TMillerCA 03:42, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC) : I've collected some more comments about this at Talk:Ellis Island. In summary, it seems that both 12th and 29th are widespread. User:Stephen Turner 11:47, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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