Historical Events on November 12

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• 295 Origin of Era of Ascension
• 764 Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an for 15 days, capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty

• 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 in San Francisco opens
• 1885 Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
• 1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500 to become 1st pro football player in the Allegheny Athletic Association's 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Athletic Club
• 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 Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris closes after 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

• 1910 1st possible movie stunt: man jumps into the Hudson river from a burning balloon

• 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
• 1920 The Dalmatian coast between Italy and Yugoslavia is ceded to Yugoslavia
• 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 Dr Hjalmar Schacht is appointed special commissioner to deal with the currency problem in Germany; by November 1924 the currency will have been restored
• 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 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green

• 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 and 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 by Hugh Gray
• 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 ever TV Gardening show "In Your Garden" shown on BBC television
• 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

• 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 WWII Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese forces in Solomon Islands
• 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 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 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 Philadelphia A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
• 1952 White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape

• 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 inaugural inductees in Racing 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 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 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 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 US Supreme Court: Epperson v. Arkansas, court declares unconstitutional Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools
• 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 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 in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) killing up to 500,000, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded
• 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
• 1972 22nd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins

• 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
• 1975 25th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins


• 1975 7h Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats England 25-0
• 1977 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 1977 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial
• 1978 "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
• 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 Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket for Pakistan v India, goes to 215
• 1982 Aaron Pryor scores a 14th round KO of Alexis Argüello in Miami to retain his WBA super lightweight boxing title in the first of 2 meetings between the Hall of Famers; The Ring’s 'Fight of the Decade'
• 1983 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
• 1983 NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3

• 1984 Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
• 1984 NBC premiere of "Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story", fact based telepic of actress Saldana's near fatal attack and its aftermath

• 1985 STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
• 1985 Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
• 1986 France performs nuclear test

• 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 Forrest's musical "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances (5 Tony wins)
• 1989 Brazil holds its 1st free presidential election in 29 years

• 1990 "The Body Bag Game" - after Eagles coach Buddy Ryan threatens beating Redskins so badly "they'll have to be carted off in body bags" the Eagles defense score 3 touchdowns winning 28–14, knocking 8 Redskins out of the game
• 1991 "Full House" 100th episode, the twins are born
• 1991 Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award
• 1991 Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of protesters in Dili, East Timor, killing at least 250
• 1992 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time
• 1992 British TV comedy "Absolutely Fabulous" written by Jennifer Saunders, starring Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley first appears on the BBC
• 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 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

• 1995 45th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jeff Gordon wins
• 1996 Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
• 1996 Saudi Arabian Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 collide in midair over Charkhi Dadri in India, killing 349 people, the third-deadliest aviation disaster in history
• 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

• 1999 The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
• 2001 Taliban forces abandon Afghanistan's capital Kabul, 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 Former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a second referendum on independence from Georgia
• 2006 Belgian tennis star Justine Hénin-Hardenne wins WTA Tour Championship title decider in Madrid, Spain; beats defending champion Amélie Mauresmo 6-4, 6-3

• 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

• 2014 European Space Agency's Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
• 2015 Suicide bombings in Lebanon kill 43, Isis claim responsibility

• 2017 7.3 earthquake hits near Halabjal, Iraq, on border with Iran, killing over 500 people, with 7,000 injured

• 2017 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Minsk, Belarus: American pair Shelby Rogers & Coco Vandeweghe beats Aryna Sabalenka & Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 6-3, 7-6 to wrap up 3-2 win and record extending 18th title for the US
• 2018 Israeli secret operation in Gaza kills eight including one Israeli and an Hamas Commander, igniting tensions with retaliatory rocket attack from Gaza

• 2019 Disney launches its streaming service Disney+

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