November, 12th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Friday 12, 2004:
Resignation of Colin Powell as Secretary of State.

Wednesday 12, 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.

Tuesday 12, 2002:
Special Extended DVD Edition of ' is released.

Monday 12, 2001:
2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.

Thursday 12, 1998:
Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.

Wednesday 12, 1997:
Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Tuesday 12, 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.

Thursday 12, 1992:
Absolutely Fabulous airs its first episode on BBC1.

Tuesday 12, 1991:
Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.

Monday 12, 1990:
Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

Friday 12, 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.

Wednesday 12, 1980:
The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest aproach to Saturn.

Monday 12, 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.

Friday 12, 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.

Thursday 12, 1970:
The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Gray whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident

Wednesday 12, 1969:
Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.

Friday 12, 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.

Tuesday 12, 1946:
A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.

Sunday 12, 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.

Thursday 12, 1942:
World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal, will last for three days.

Wednesday 12, 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.

Saturday 12, 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.

Thursday 12, 1936:
In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.

Monday 12, 1934:
The musical Babes in Toyland debuts, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as comic relief (see Laurel and Hardy).

Sunday 12, 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.

Saturday 12, 1927:
The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

Tuesday 12, 1918:
Austria becomes a republic.

Tuesday 12, 1912:
The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Sunday 12, 1905:
(November 12 & 13) Norway holds referendum in favour of monarchy over republic.

Tuesday 12, 1439:
Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

Wednesday 12, 1028:
Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of dying Constantine VIII

Thursday 12, 764:
Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/12-november/on-this-day.html


People born on November 12

1982:
Anne Hathaway, American actress (b: November 12, 1982) (Biography of Anne Hathaway (actress))

1980:
Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor (b: November 12, 1980) (Biography of Ryan Gosling)

1978:
Andrew Kinlochan, English singer and musician (b: November 12, 1978) (Biography of Andrew Kinlochan)

1970:
Tonya Harding, American figure skater (b: November 12, 1970) (Biography of Tonya Harding)

1969:
Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter (b: November 12, 1969) (Biography of Kathleen Hanna)

1968:
Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride) (b: November 12, 1968) (Biography of Aaron Stainthorpe)
Sammy Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball player (b: November 12, 1968) (Biography of Sammy Sosa)

1966:
David Schwimmer, American actor (b: November 12, 1966) (Biography of David Schwimmer)

1961:
Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast (b: November 12, 1961) (Biography of Nadia Comaneci)

1958:
Megan Mullally, American actress (b: November 12, 1958) (Biography of Megan Mullally)

1945:
Neil Young, Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician (b: November 12, 1945) (Biography of Neil Young)

1944:
Booker T. Jones, American musician, singer, and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's) (b: November 12, 1944) (Biography of Booker T. Jones)
Al Michaels, American television sportscaster (b: November 12, 1944) (Biography of Al Michaels)

1943:
Brian Hyland, American singer (b: November 12, 1943) (Biography of Brian Hyland)
Wallace Shawn, American actor and playwright (b: November 12, 1943) (Biography of Wallace Shawn)

1934:
Charles Manson, American cult leader and mass murderer (b: November 12, 1934) (Biography of Charles Manson)

1930:
Ann Flood, American actress (b: November 12, 1930) (Biography of Ann Flood)

1929:
Michael Ende, German writer (b: November 12, 1929 ; d: August 28, 1995) (Biography of Michael Ende)
Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress (b: November 12, 1929 ; d: September 14, 1982) (Biography of Grace Kelly)

1923:
Vicco von Bülow, German graphic artist, actor and film director (b: November 12, 1923) (Biography of Vicco von Bülow)

1922:
Kim Hunter, American actress (b: November 12, 1922 ; d: September 11, 2002) (Biography of Kim Hunter)

1920:
Richard Quine, American actor (b: November 12, 1920) (Biography of Richard Quine)

1917:
Jo Stafford, American singer (b: November 12, 1917) (Biography of Jo Stafford)

1915:
Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (b: November 12, 1915 ; d: March 25, 1980) (Biography of Roland Barthes)

1908:
Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b: November 12, 1908 ; d: March 4, 1999) (Biography of Harry Blackmun)

1903:
Jack Oakie, American actor (b: November 12, 1903 ; d: January 23, 1978) (Biography of Jack Oakie)

1896:
Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (b: November 12, 1896) (Biography of Salim Ali (ornithologist))

1889:
DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (b: November 12, 1889 ; d: March 30, 1981) (Biography of DeWitt Wallace)

1866:
Sun Yat-sen, first President of the Republic of China (b: November 12, 1866) (Biography of Sun Yat-sen)

1850:
Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b: November 12, 1850 ; d: January 25, 1908) (Biography of Mikhail Chigorin)

1842:
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: November 12, 1842 ; d: June 30, 1919) (Biography of John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh)

1840:
Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b: November 12, 1840) (Biography of Auguste Rodin)

1833:
Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (b: November 12, 1833 ; d: February 27, 1887) (Biography of Alexander Borodin)

1817:
Bahá'u'lláh, Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b: November 12, 1817 ; d: May 29, 1892) (Biography of Baha'u'llah)

1815:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (b: November 12, 1815 ; d: October 26, 1902) (Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

1755:
Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b: November 12, 1755 ; d: June 28, 1813) (Biography of Gerhard von Scharnhorst)

1615:
Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b: November 12, 1615 ; d: December 8, 1691) (Biography of Richard Baxter)

1606:
Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b: November 12, 1606 ; d: June 18, 1673) (Biography of Jeanne Mance)

1528:
Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b: November 12, 1528 ; d: January 5, 1588) (Biography of Qi Jiguang)

1493:
Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b: November 12, 1493 ; d: February 7, 1560) (Biography of Bartolommeo Bandinelli)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/12-november/births.html