Notable Historical Events on November 12th
November 12th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
295 |
Origin of Era of Ascension |
764 |
Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days. |
954 |
Lotharius becomes king of France |
1439 |
Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament. |
1555 |
The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism. |
1591 |
Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza |
1614 |
Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends |
1673 |
Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn |
1682 |
Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy |
1727 |
France & Bavaria renew secret treaty |
1775 |
General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks |
1793 |
Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined. |
1799 |
Andrew Ellicott makes the first known record of a meteor shower observation in the U.S, from a ship off the coast of Florida Keys |
1813 |
Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth |
1823 |
Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens |
1833 |
The great Leonid Meteor shower was recorded |
1847 |
Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic. |
1859 |
Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name |
1873 |
Bay District Race Track opens |
1885 |
Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game |
1892 |
Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player |
1892 |
Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football |
1893 |
The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan - the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister nations. |
1894 |
Lawrence Hargrave, Australian aeronautical pioneer and inventor of the box kite, linked four huge box kites together and flew - but remained attached to the ground by piano wire |
1899 |
British troops reach Durban Natal |
1900 |
World's Fair (Exposition Universelle) in Paris closes (50 million visitors) - Art Nouveau style dominates |
1905 |
(November 12 & November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic. |
1906 |
C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps |
1908 |
Andrew Fisher assumes the position of prime minister for what turns out to be a short-lived second Labour government, Australia |
1909 |
Mackenzie King takes his seat in the House of Commons as Minister of Labour |
1910 |
1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon |
1912 |
Robert Scott's diary & body found in Antarctica |
1914 |
Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war |
1915 |
Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago |
1915 |
Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry |
1918 |
Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic |
1919 |
Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia |
1920 |
Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner |
1921 |
Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments |
1922 |
The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. |
1923 |
In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8 |
1924 |
Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron |
1925 |
US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts |
1926 |
The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers |
1927 |
1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens |
1927 |
Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green |
1927 |
Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator |
1928 |
British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110 |
1931 |
Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1 |
1931 |
Sibelius/Ashton's ballet "Lady of Shalott" premieres in London |
1932 |
24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion |
1933 |
1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal) |
1933 |
1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate's Forbes Field, lose to Bkln Dodgers 32-0 |
1933 |
First known photo of so-called Loch Ness monster is taken |
1933 |
Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany |
1935 |
Egas Moniz performs the first modern brain surgery on the frontal lobes to treat mental disorders, at Santa Marta Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal |
1936 |
1st TV Gardening show |
1936 |
Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill |
1936 |
Oakland Bay Bridge opens |
1936 |
St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes & William O DeWitt |
1938 |
Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland |
1939 |
Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David |
1940 |
Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes) |
1941 |
Germany's drive to take Moscow halted |
1941 |
WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters |
1941 |
Alma Heflin, the first American female test pilot for commercial aircraft, made her first test flight for the Piper Aircraft Corporation, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania |
1942 |
In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began |
1943 |
Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands |
1944 |
RAF sinks German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord, Norway |
1945 |
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) |
1946 |
1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago) |
1946 |
Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released |
1946 |
A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows. |
1947 |
KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR) |
1947 |
Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced |
1948 |
Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal |
1948 |
The first mobile betatron (particle accelerator) begins operation at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland |
1950 |
Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards |
1951 |
"Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances |
1952 |
Phila A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP |
1952 |
White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape |
1953 |
David Ben-Gurion, resigns as Prime Minister of Israel |
1953 |
US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games |
1954 |
Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed |
1955 |
1st West German officers sworn in |
1955 |
E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame |
1956 |
Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted |
1958 |
Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award |
1959 |
White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP |
1960 |
Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails |
1960 |
Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude |
1963 |
Train crash in Japan, kills 164 |
1964 |
Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg |
1964 |
Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH |
1965 |
Ferdinand Marcos elected 10th President of Philippines |
1965 |
General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka |
1965 |
Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ |
1965 |
Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus |
1966 |
Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
1966 |
Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record |
1966 |
High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame |
1967 |
Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
1967 |
Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7 |
1968 |
KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Epperson v. Arkansas in US Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional |
1969 |
Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union |
1969 |
Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP |
1969 |
US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19 |
1969 |
WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast |
1970 |
240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die |
1970 |
Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103 |
1970 |
Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell |
1970 |
Cyclone Bhola makes landfall, deadliest tropical cyclone recorded kills up to 500,000 in East Pakistan (modern Bangladesh), |
1970 |
The Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) is formed; the NIHE gradually took over control of the building and allocation of public sector housing in Northern Ireland |
1973 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 14th String Quartet premieres |
1974 |
South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies |
1974 |
A salmon is discovered in the River Thames, England, for the first time since 1833 |
1975 |
NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award |
1975 |
Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years |
1977 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1977 |
New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial |
1978 |
"Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances |
1978 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
1979 |
Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal |
1979 |
US President Carter announces a halts to Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets |
1980 |
Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award |
1980 |
NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana |
1980 |
US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn |
1981 |
1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V) |
1981 |
2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2) |
1981 |
Bill C Davis' "Mass Appeal" premieres in NYC |
1981 |
Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's) |
1981 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test |
1981 |
Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World |
1982 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1982 |
USSR KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as USSR leader |
1982 |
Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket v India, goes to 215 |
1983 |
4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas |
1983 |
NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3 |
1984 |
Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together" |
1984 |
Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage |
1985 |
R Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match v Australia at Brisbane |
1985 |
STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad |
1985 |
Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb |
1985 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct |
1986 |
France performs nuclear test |
1986 |
Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously |
1987 |
"Teddy & Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 77 performances |
1987 |
Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine |
1987 |
Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World |
1988 |
Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7) |
1988 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1989 |
George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances |
1989 |
Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years |
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. |
1990 |
"The Body Bag Game", in the days leading to the clash, Eagles head coach Buddy Ryan threatened a beating so severe that "they'll have to be carted off in body bags". Ryan's words were prophetic, as the Eagles defense scored three touchdowns in a 28—14 win and knocked eight Redskins out of the game, including two quarterbacks |
1991 |
"Full House" 100th episode-twins are born |
1991 |
Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award |
1991 |
Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die |
1991 |
Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor. |
1992 |
NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time |
1995 |
25th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06 |
1995 |
26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00 |
1995 |
Last day of Test cricket for Martin Crowe |
1995 |
Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003 |
1995 |
NY MTA raises subway & bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50 |
1995 |
STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit |
1996 |
Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award |
1997 |
Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004 |
1997 |
Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award |
1998 |
NY Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak |
1998 |
Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol. |
1999 |
The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale. |
2001 |
2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops. |
2001 |
In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground. |
2003 |
With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial railway systems. |
2003 |
Iraq war: 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. |
2006 |
The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia. |
2008 |
42nd Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley wins |
2011 |
Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis. |
2012 |
Into the Silence by Wade Davis wins the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize |
2012 |
Joe Sakic, Mats Sundin, Pavel Bure and Adam Oates are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame |
2015 |
Red Cross: At least 37 killed, 180 hurt in southern Beirut suicide bombings |
2015 |
ISIS threatens Russia in new video |
2016 |
Russia says expects sanctions to stay in place despite Trump win |
2016 |
Japan and India sign civil nuclear agreement |
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