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Chronicles of November 12

A Journey Through Time's Milestones: Discover the significant events, notable births, and historical deaths that have shaped this day.

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November 12: A Glimpse

The Day

November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 49 days remaining until the end of the year. This date marks a point in time where history unfolds through significant occurrences, the lives of influential individuals, and cultural observances.

Historical Events

Pre-1600

  • 954 – The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom.
  • 1028 – Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
  • 1330 – Battle of Posada ends: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush.
  • 1439 – Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

1601–1900

  • 1835 – Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.
  • 1892 – Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record.
  • 1893 – Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.

1901–Present

  • 1905 – Norway holds a referendum approving the offer of a throne to a new monarch.
  • 1912 – First Balkan War: King George I of Greece enters Thessaloniki after its liberation.
  • 1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found in Antarctica.
  • 1918 – Austria becomes a republic following the dissolution of Austria-Hungary.
  • 1920 – The Cork hunger strike by Irish republicans ends after three deaths.
  • 1920 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
  • 1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, consolidating Stalin's control.
  • 1928 – SS Vestris sinks off Virginia, causing over 110 deaths.
  • 1933 – Nazi Germany ratifies its withdrawal from the League of Nations via referendum.
  • 1936 – The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
  • 1938 – Nazi Germany issues a decree to eliminate Jews from the economic life.
  • 1940 – World War II: Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon.
  • 1940 – World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov visits Berlin to discuss joining the Axis Powers.
  • 1941 – World War II: Soviet Union deploys ski troops against freezing German forces near Moscow.
  • 1941 – World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed at the Battle of Sevastopol.
  • 1942 – Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Japanese and American forces.
  • 1944 – World War II: RAF bombers sink the German battleship Tirpitz.
  • 1948 – In Tokyo, war criminals are sentenced by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
  • 1954 – Ellis Island ceases operations.
  • 1956 – Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia join the United Nations.
  • 1956 – Palestinian refugees are killed in Rafah by Israeli soldiers during the Suez Crisis.
  • 1958 – First ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley is completed.
  • 1961 – Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of murders aboard the ketch Bluebelle.
  • 1969 – Vietnam War: Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
  • 1970 – Oregon Highway Division's attempt to destroy a whale with explosives results in the infamous "exploding whale" incident.
  • 1970 – The Bhola cyclone makes landfall in East Pakistan, becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone on record.
  • 1971 – Vietnam War: Nixon sets a deadline for removing 45,000 more US troops.
  • 1971 – Aeroflot Flight N-63 crashes near Vinnytsia, killing 48.
  • 1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
  • 1977 – France conducts the Oreste nuclear test.
  • 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Carter halts petroleum imports from Iran.
  • 1980 – Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn, capturing images of its rings.
  • 1981 – STS-2 mission marks the first time a crewed spacecraft is launched into space twice.
  • 1982 – Yuri Andropov becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • 1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan.
  • 1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
  • 1991 – Santa Cruz massacre: Indonesian Army fires on protesters in Dili, East Timor.
  • 1995 – The Erdut Agreement is reached to resolve the Croatian War of Independence.
  • 1995 – Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-74 to deliver the Mir Docking Module.
  • 1996 – A mid-air collision near New Delhi kills 349 people.
  • 1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
  • 1999 – The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey, killing at least 845 people.
  • 2001 – American Airlines Flight 587 crashes near New York City, killing 260 people.
  • 2001 – War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul.
  • 2003 – Iraq War: A suicide bombing in Nasiriyah kills 23, including Italian soldiers.
  • 2003 – Shanghai Transrapid sets a world speed record for commercial rail vehicles.
  • 2011 – Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy.
  • 2011 – A blast at an Iranian missile base kills 17 Revolutionary Guards.
  • 2014 – The Philae lander reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
  • 2014 – An Armenian helicopter is shot down by Azerbaijani forces.
  • 2015 – Suicide bombings in Beirut kill 43 people.
  • 2017 – An earthquake strikes the Iran–Iraq border, killing over 410 people.
  • 2020 – The PlayStation 5 is released.
  • 2021 – Britney Spears' 14-year conservatorship is formally ended.
  • 2022 – Two planes collide and crash during an airshow in Dallas, killing six.

Notable Births

Pre-1600

  • 1450 – Jacques of Savoy, Count of Romont
  • 1492 – Johan Rantzau, German general
  • 1547 – Claude of Valois, French princess
  • 1579 – Albrecht of Hanau-Münzenberg, German nobleman

1601–1900

  • 1606 – Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian nurse and founder of Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal
  • 1615 – Richard Baxter, English minister, poet, and theologian
  • 1651 – Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican nun, poet, and scholar
  • 1755 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician
  • 1774 – Charles Bell, Scottish surgeon and artist
  • 1815 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist
  • 1817 – Baháʼu'lláh, Persian spiritual leader and founder of the Baháʼí Faith
  • 1833 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist
  • 1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor
  • 1842 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and Nobel laureate
  • 1866 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, first President of the Republic of China
  • 1890 – DeWitt Wallace, American publisher, co-founder of Reader's Digest

1901–Present

  • 1903 – Jack Oakie, American actor
  • 1908 – Harry Blackmun, American lawyer and judge
  • 1911 – Buck Clayton, American trumpet player
  • 1915 – Roland Barthes, French philosopher and critic
  • 1917 – Jo Stafford, American singer
  • 1923 – Loriot, German humorist and actor
  • 1929 – Michael Ende, German author
  • 1929 – Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco
  • 1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader
  • 1937 – Richard H. Truly, NASA astronaut
  • 1938 – Benjamin Mkapa, Tanzanian journalist and politician, 3rd President of Tanzania
  • 1939 – Lucia Popp, Slovak soprano
  • 1943 – Errol Brown, Jamaican-English singer
  • 1943 – Brian Hyland, American pop singer
  • 1943 – Wallace Shawn, American actor and playwright
  • 1944 – Ken Houston, American football player
  • 1944 – Booker T. Jones, American musician
  • 1944 – Al Michaels, American sportscaster
  • 1945 – Neil Young, Canadian singer-songwriter
  • 1947 – Buck Dharma, American singer-songwriter
  • 1948 – Hassan Rouhani, Iranian lawyer and politician, 7th President of Iran
  • 1953 – Baaba Maal, Senegalese singer-songwriter
  • 1957 – Tim Samaras, American engineer and storm chaser
  • 1958 – Megan Mullally, American actress and singer
  • 1959 – Vincent Irizarry, American actor
  • 1961 – Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast
  • 1962 – Radha Mitchell, Australian actress
  • 1962 – Neal Shusterman, American author
  • 1962 – Naomi Wolf, American author and activist
  • 1964 – Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter
  • 1964 – David Ellefson, American bass player
  • 1967 – Michael Moorer, American boxer
  • 1968 – Kathleen Hanna, American singer-songwriter
  • 1968 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican-American baseball player
  • 1970 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater
  • 1970 – Sarah Harmer, Canadian singer-songwriter
  • 1971 – Chen Guangcheng, Chinese-American lawyer and activist
  • 1971 – Rebecca Wisocky, American actress
  • 1973 – Radha Mitchell, Australian actress
  • 1973 – Ethan Zohn, American soccer player and reality TV winner
  • 1974 – Tamala Jones, American actress
  • 1975 – Jason Lezak, American swimmer
  • 1976 – Tevin Campbell, American R&B singer
  • 1978 – Alexandra Maria Lara, Romanian-German actress
  • 1978 – Mista, Spanish footballer
  • 1978 – Ashley Williams, American actress
  • 1979 – Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
  • 1979 – Lucas Glover, American golfer
  • 1979 – Corey Maggette, American basketball player
  • 1980 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
  • 1981 – Annika Becker, German pole vaulter
  • 1982 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
  • 1984 – Jorge Masvidal, American Mixed Martial Artist
  • 1984 – Omarion, American singer and actor
  • 1985 – Arianny Celeste, American model and actress
  • 1986 – Ignazio Abate, Italian footballer
  • 1986 – Nedum Onuoha, English footballer
  • 1987 – Jason Day, Australian golfer
  • 1988 – Russell Westbrook, American basketball player
  • 1990 – Adrianna Franch, American soccer player
  • 1990 – Florent Manaudou, French swimmer
  • 1990 – Marcell Ozuna, Dominican baseball player
  • 1991 – Cairo Santos, Brazilian gridiron football player
  • 1992 – Dāvis Bertāns, Latvian basketball player
  • 1992 – Trey Burke, American basketball player
  • 1992 – Adam Larsson, Swedish ice hockey player
  • 1992 – Luguelín Santos, Dominican sprinter
  • 1993 – Tomáš Hertl, Czech ice hockey player
  • 1994 – Guillaume Cizeron, French ice dancer
  • 1995 – Thomas Lemar, French footballer
  • 1995 – xQc, Canadian online streamer
  • 1997 – Dexter Lawrence, American football player
  • 1998 – Jules Koundé, French footballer
  • 1998 – Elias Pettersson, Swedish ice hockey player
  • 1999 – Choi Yoo-jung, South Korean singer
  • 2001 – Raffey Cassidy, English actress
  • 2002 – Paolo Banchero, Italian-American basketball player
  • 2002 – Tino Livramento, English footballer

Notable Deaths

Pre-1600

  • 607 – Pope Boniface III
  • 657 – Livinus, Irish apostle
  • 973 – Burchard III, Duke of Swabia
  • 1035 – Cnut the Great, Danish-English king
  • 1094 – Duncan II of Scotland
  • 1202 – Canute VI of Denmark
  • 1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and politician
  • 1595 – John Hawkins, English admiral and shipbuilder

1601–1900

  • 1623 – Josaphat Kuntsevych, Lithuanian archbishop
  • 1742 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist
  • 1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer and politician
  • 1847 – William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist
  • 1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English author
  • 1896 – Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician

1901–Present

  • 1902 – William Henry Barlow, English engineer
  • 1916 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer
  • 1933 – Norman Bethune, Canadian physician and humanitarian
  • 1942 – Maurice O'Neill, Irish republican
  • 1946 – Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian academic and politician
  • 1948 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer
  • 1950 – Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler
  • 1950 – Julia Marlowe, English-American actress
  • 1955 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer and architect
  • 1955 – Tin Ujević, Croatian poet
  • 1955 – Sarah Wambaugh, American political scientist
  • 1958 – Gustaf Söderström, Swedish athlete
  • 1962 – Roque González Garza, Mexican general
  • 1965 – Many Benner, French painter
  • 1965 – Taher Saifuddin, Indian spiritual leader
  • 1969 – Liu Shaoqi, Chinese politician
  • 1971 – Hanna Neumann, German mathematician
  • 1972 – Rudolf Friml, Czech-American composer
  • 1976 – Mikhail Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer
  • 1976 – Walter Piston, American composer
  • 1981 – William Holden, American actor
  • 1986 – Minoru Yasui, American lawyer and activist
  • 1990 – Eve Arden, American actress
  • 1991 – Gabriele Tinti, Italian actor
  • 1993 – H. R. Haldeman, American official
  • 1994 – Wilma Rudolph, American sprinter
  • 1997 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish-American composer
  • 1998 – Roy Hollis, English footballer
  • 1998 – Sally Shlaer, American mathematician
  • 2000 – Franck Pourcel, French conductor
  • 2001 – Albert Hague, German-American actor and composer
  • 2001 – Tony Miles, English chess player
  • 2003 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor
  • 2003 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director
  • 2003 – Penny Singleton, American actress
  • 2003 – Tony Thompson, American drummer
  • 2007 – K. C. Ibrahim, Indian cricketer
  • 2007 – Ira Levin, American novelist
  • 2008 – Catherine Baker Knoll, American politician
  • 2008 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer
  • 2010 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer
  • 2012 – Hans Hammarskiöld, Swedish photographer
  • 2012 – Sergio Oliva, Cuban-American bodybuilder
  • 2012 – Daniel Stern, American psychologist
  • 2013 – Steve Rexe, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 2013 – Konrad Rudnicki, Polish astronomer
  • 2013 – Aleksandr Serebrov, Russian astronaut
  • 2013 – John Tavener, English composer
  • 2013 – Kurt Trampedach, Danish painter
  • 2014 – Ravi Chopra, Indian director
  • 2014 – Warren Clarke, English actor
  • 2014 – Marge Roukema, American politician
  • 2014 – Valery Senderov, Russian mathematician
  • 2015 – Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer
  • 2015 – Jihadi John, terrorist
  • 2016 – Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress
  • 2016 – Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Egyptian Actor
  • 2018 – Stan Lee, American comic book writer
  • 2021 – Chung-Yun Hse, Wood scientist
  • 2023 – Don Walsh, American oceanographer
  • 2024 – Roy Haynes, American drummer
  • 2024 – John Horgan, Canadian politician
  • 2024 – Song Jae-rim, South Korean actor
  • 2024 – Thomas E. Kurtz, American computer scientist
  • 2024 – Timothy West, English actor

Holidays & Observances

Global & Cultural

November 12 is recognized globally for various observances and holidays:

  • Birth of Sun Yat-Sen, Doctors' Day, and Cultural Renaissance Day in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
  • Constitution Day in Azerbaijan.
  • Father's Day and National Health Day in Indonesia.
  • National Youth Day in East Timor.
  • World Pneumonia Day.

Christian Feasts

Several Christian saints are commemorated on this day:

  • Saint Arsatius
  • Saint Astrik
  • Saint Cumméne Fota
  • Saint Cunibert
  • Saint Emilian of Cogolla
  • Saint Imerius of Immertal
  • Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych
  • Saint Lebuinus
  • Saint Livinus of Ghent
  • Saint Machar
  • Saint Margarito Flores García
  • Saint Nilus of Sinai
  • Saint Patiens
  • Saint Renatus
  • Saint Theodore the Studite
  • Saint Ymar
  • Commemorations in Eastern Orthodox liturgics.

November 12 in Recent Years

Recent Years

A look at how November 12 has fallen in recent years:

  • 2024 (Tuesday)
  • 2023 (Sunday)
  • 2022 (Saturday)
  • 2021 (Friday)
  • 2020 (Thursday)
  • 2019 (Tuesday)
  • 2018 (Monday)
  • 2017 (Sunday)
  • 2016 (Saturday)
  • 2015 (Thursday)

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