This Day in History for 12th November

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 170

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.
1813 - Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth
1823 - Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens
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.
1899 - British troops reach Durban Natal
1900 - World's Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors)
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
1910 - 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
Antarctic Explorer Robert Scott 1912 - Robert Scott's diary & dead 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
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
Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky 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 - 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
1933 - Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
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
1942 - In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
1943 - Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
1944 - RAF sink 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
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 premier 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 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 - 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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 207

1493 - Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
1528 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)
1547 - Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575). 2nd daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.
1606 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)
1615 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
1651 - Juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primero Sueno)
1676 - Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer
1729 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
1748 - Carlos IV, King of Spain (1788-1808)
1755 - Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussia milt/minister of War (1807-10)
1757 - Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Zealand poet
1790 - Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, suffragist (80 Years & More)
1817 - Carlo Pedrotti, composer
1817 - Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer
1817 - Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)
1827 - Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer
1831 - Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist
1833 - Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable)
Sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840) 1840 - Auguste Rodin, Meudon, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker), (d. 1917)
1841 - John W Rayleigh, Malden, England, physicist (discovery of argon - Nobel 1904), (d. 1919)
1844 - Octave Fouque, composer
1848 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)
1850 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
1853 - Oskar Panizza, writer
1858 - Alexis Contant, composer
1865 - Frans L M "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas)
1866 - Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional)
1881 - Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (d. 1948)
1881 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1886 - Leonardus G Kortenhorst, Dutch MP (KVP)
1886 - Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
1889 - DeWitt Wallace, St Paul Minn, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921)
1890 - Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
Physicist and Nobel Laureate John W Rayleigh (1841) 1896 - Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
1897 - Karl Marx, Germany, composer/conductor
1898 - Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet/author (His Master's Voice)
1898 - Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)
1903 - Jack Oakie, Sedalia Mo, actor (Great Dictator, 1974 Photoplay Award)
1905 - Evgeny Grigor'yevich Bruslovsky, composer
1905 - Solon Michaelides, composer
1908 - Hans Werner Richter, German author (Socially Responsible Cinema)
1908 - Harry A Blackmun, Ill, 100th Supreme Court justice (1970-94)
1908 - Shamus Culhane, animator
1908 - Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (d. 1946)
1910 - A "Dudley" Nourse, cricketer (son of Dave, brilliant South African bat)
1911 - Luc Estang, [Lucien Bastard], French writer (Stigmates)
1911 - William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian
1911 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
1912 - Alphonse [Tuffy] Leemans, NFL fullback (NY Giants)
1914 - Edward "Henricus" Schillebeeckx, Dutch theologist
1914 - Roberto Cavanagh, Argentina, polo (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 - Sylvi Saimo, Finland, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1952)
1915 - Roland Barthes, French literary critic (L'Empire des Signer)
1916 - Jean Papineau-Couture, composer
1916 - Liam Dunn, NJ, actor (Koska & his Family)
1916 - Paul Emery, British racing driver (d. 1993)
1916 - Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (d. 1986)
1917 - Joseph Coors, CEO (Adolph Coors Co Brewery)
1917 - Jo Stafford, Coalinga California, singer (You Belong to me, Never Smile Again)
1920 - Richard Quine, Detroit MI, actor/director (Clay Pigeon)
1921 - Robert Fleming, composer
1922 - Kim Hunter, [Janet Cole], Det MI, actress (Planet of the Apes, Lilith)
1923 - Vicco von Bülow, German film director
1924 - Sam Jones, jazz bassist (d. 1981)
1927 - Sunset Carson, [Michael Harrison] Plainview TX, actor (Cat of Rockies)
1927 - Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
1928 - Johan B W Polak, Dutch publisher/publicist (Bloom of Decadence)
1928 - Robert Holness, Natal, South Africa, English radio and television presenter (BBC), (d. 2012)
Actress Grace Kelly (1929) 1929 - Grace Kelly, Philadelphia Pa, actress (Rear Window)/Princess (Monaco), (d. 1982)
1929 - Michael Ende, writer
1930 - Tonke Dragt, Dutch children book author (Towers of February)
1930 - Ann Flood, American actress
1931 - Bob Crewe, rocker
1931 - Norman Y Mineta, (Rep-R-CA, 1975- )
1933 - Peter Post, Dutch bicyclist (8x European Champion at Derny-drive)
1934 - Ann Flood, Jamaica NY, actress (Edge of Night)
1934 - Bukka White, rocker
1934 - Charles Manson, [No Name Maddox], Cin Oh, criminal (Tate-Labianco)
1935 - Jerry Douglas, Chelsea Mass, actor (John Abbott-Young & Restless)
1935 - Terry Johnson, US R&B singer (Flamingos-I Know Better)
1936 - Mort Shuman, rocker
1936 - Robert White, guitarist
1936 - Ruth Jessen, LPGA golfer
1936 - Mills Lane, American judge and boxing referee
1937 - Ina Balin, Brooklyn NY, actress (Danger in Paradise)
1937 - Peter Lloyd, British MP
1937 - Richard H Truly, Fayette Miss, Rear Adm USN/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 8)
1939 - Ruby Nash Curtis, US singer (Romantics-Our Day Will Come)
1939 - Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
1940 - Ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers
1940 - Michel Audet, Quebec economist and politician
1940 - Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician
1941 - Frank Rosenthal, rocker
1941 - Jennifer Helen McLeod, composer
1943 - Brian Hyland, Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini)
1943 - Jimmy "Bro" Hayes, US singer (Persuasions-Under the Boardwalk)
1943 - John Maus, NYC, rock vocalist (Walker Brothers)
1943 - Wallace Shawn, NYC, actor (My Dinner with Andre, Princess Bride)
1943 - Bjorn Waldegard, Swedish rally driver

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 5

1028 - Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII.
1656 - English Poet and author of epic "Paradise Lost" John Milton (47) marries 2nd wife Katherine Woodcock
1969 - Director Blake Edwards (47) weds "The Sound of Music" actress Julie Andrews (34) in Beverly Hills
2005 - Businessman Donald Trump Jr. (27) weds model Vanessa Haydon at the Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida
2011 - Actress Tiffany Thornton (26) weds Christopher Carney at Anthony Chapel in Hot Springs, Arkansas

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 108

607 - Pope Boniface III, dies after less than a year in office
1035 - Cnut (Canute) "The Great", King of Denmark. England, Norway and parts of Sweden. Reigned 1016-1035.
1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
1202 - Knut VI, king of the Denen/Turn (1182-1202), dies at about 39
1434 - King Louis III of Naples
1555 - Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65
1558 - Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies
1567 - Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, Marshal of France, dies at 74
1595 - John Hawkins, English navigator/treasurer of the Navy, dies at 63
1600 - Andreas of Austrian, Land Guardian of Neth (1598-1600), dies at 42
1606 - Matthaus Ludecus, composer, dies at 79
1606 - St. Nicholas Owen (martyr), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
1667 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598)
1671 - Thomas, 3rd baron Fairfax of Cameron, English general, dies at 59
1722 - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter/engraver/architect, dies at 63
1739 - Ludwig Ernst, composer, dies at 71
1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1754 - Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam painter/decorater, dies at 58
1757 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
1802 - Charles van Poucke, Flemish sculptor, dies at 62
1823 - Emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer, dies at 75
1836 - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1852 - Georg Hellmesberger, composer, dies at 22
1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
1869 - Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies
1893 - Alexander Freiherr von Bach, premier of Austria (1852-59), dies at 80
1896 - Spyridon Xyndas, composer, dies at 84
1912 - Jose Canalejas bon Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered at 58
Astronomer Percival Lowell (1916) 1916 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)
1921 - Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 63
1925 - Roman Statkowski, composer, dies at 65
1937 - Harry Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper (v WI 1928), dies
1939 - (Ernest YY) Oscar Tourniaire, actor (Bluejackets), dies at 59
1939 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
1940 - Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34
1941 - Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, NY gangster/police informer, killed
1944 - Edgar Stillman Kelley, US composer (Gulliver), dies at 87
1944 - George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60
1944 - Roy Agnew, composer, dies at 51
1947 - Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82
1948 - Umberto Giordano, composer, dies at 81
1949 - Hendrik A de Fish, [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological, dies at 64
1955 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
1956 - Gerhard Alexander, actor (One Zomerzotheid), dies at 49
1957 - Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law), dies at 78
1960 - John Trim, cricketer (occasional WI quick 1948-52, 18 wkts), dies
1962 - Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer, dies at 68
1962 - Sid Tomack, actor (Gillis-Life of Riley, My Friend Irma), dies at 55
1965 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
1966 - Quincy Porter, US composer, dies at 69
1967 - Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian, dies at 58
1969 - Louis van Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk to high C), dies at 77
1972 - Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite), dies at 92
1974 - Charles Quinlivan, actor (7 Guns to Mesa), dies at 50
1975 - Anthony Ross, TV host (Telltale Clue), dies at 69
1976 - Walter Hamor Piston, US composer, dies at 82
1976 - Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
1978 - Howard Swanson, composer, dies at 71
1979 - Dimitri Tiompkin, composer, dies at 85
1980 - Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen, Dutch composer, dies at 85
1980 - Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident, dies at 42
1980 - Haya van Someren-Downer, Dutch MP, dies at 54
1984 - Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
1987 - Roger Lewis, aviation exec (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75
1990 - Dave Willock, actor (Queen of Outer Space), dies at 81
1990 - Eve Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82
1990 - Nico Haak, Dutch singer (Foxy Foxtrot), dies
1990 - Rifaat El-Maghub, Egyptian MP leader, murdered
1990 - Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet, dies at 81
1991 - Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack
1991 - Diane Brewster, actress (Courage of Black Beauty), dies at 60
1991 - Howard Brunner, dies of AIDS at 51
1991 - Paul E "Cardinal" Leger, cardinal/archbishop of Montreal, dies at 87
1992 - Charles "Honi" Coles, tap dancer, dies of cancer at 81
1992 - David Oliver, actor (Perry Hutchins-Another World), dies of AIDS at 30
1993 - Anna Stein, actress (Wedding Night), dies of heart attack at 88
1993 - Bill Dickey, HOF baseball catcher (NY Yankees, 1928-46), dies at 86
1993 - Harry Haldeman, Nixon's cabinet member (1968-73), dies
1994 - Charles "Honi" Coles, dancer (1983 Tony award), dies at 81
1994 - Katherine Elliots, doctor, dies at 75
1994 - Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer, dies at 88
1994 - Wilma Glodean Rudolph, US sprinter (Olympics-3 gold-60), dies at 54
1995 - Curley Fox, fiddler, dies at 85
1995 - Jack Mann, pilot/hostage, dies at 81
1995 - Marion Pitt, social worker/writer, dies at 56
1996 - Don Kenyon, cricketer, dies at 72
1996 - Gwen Catley, soprano, dies at 90
1996 - John Qace Hardbattle, political activist, dies at 51
1997 - William Matthews, poet, dies at 55
1997 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
2000 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928)
2000 - Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
2001 - Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
2003 - Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
2003 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
2003 - Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
2003 - Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)
Actor Jonathan Brandis (2003) 2003 - Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
2004 - John Peel, English DJ and Broadcaster (b. 1939)
2005 - William G. Adams, former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada (b. 1923)