November 12 

November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining.

Events:

• 1439 - Plymouth, England becomes the first town incorporated by Parliament
• 1915 - United Kingdom annexes Gilbert and Ellice Islands[?]
• 1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates -- Austria becomes a republic
• 1927 - Leon Trotsky expelled from Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control
• 1927 - Holland Tunnel opens to traffic
• 1936 - San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic
• 1942 - Battle of Guadalcanal begins
• 1990 - Emperor Akihito of Japan takes the throne
• 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web
• 2001 - American Airlines flight 587, crashes on takeoff from Kennedy Airport, in New York City. See NY planecrash III.
• 2001 - The Taliban abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.

Births:

• 1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women's rights activist
• 1817 - Mírzá Husayn-'Alí (Bahaullah, founder of the Bahá'í Faith
• 1833 - Alexander Borodin, composer (+ 1887)
• 1840 - Auguste Rodin, sculptor (+ 1917)
• 1866 - Sun Yat-Sen, first President of China (+ 1925)
• 1889 - DeWitt Wallace[?], publisher ("Reader's Digest[?]") (+ 1981)
• 1903 - Jack Oakie[?], actor
• 1908 - Harry Blackmun[?], Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade (+ 1999)
• 1910 - Kurt Hoffmann[?], film director
• 1917 - Jo Stafford[?], singer
• 1920 - Richard Quine[?], actor
• 1922 - Sunset Carson[?], actor
• 1922 - Kim Hunter, actress (+ 1922)
• 1923 - Vicco von Bülow, known as Loriot, graphic artist, actor and film director
• 1929 - Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco, actress (+ 1982)
• 1929 - Michael Ende, writer (+ 1995)
• 1930 - Ann Flood[?], actress
• 1934 - Charles Manson, murderer
• 1943 - Brian Hyland[?], singer
• 1943 - Wallace Shawn, actor, playwright
• 1944 - Booker T. Jones[?], musician (Booker T and the MG's)
• 1944 - Al Michaels[?], sports reporter
• 1945 - Neil Young, singer, songwriter, musician
• 1961 - Nadia Comaneci, gymnast
• 1966 - David Schwimmer, actor
• 1968 - Sammy Sosa, baseball player
• 1970 - Tonya Harding, figure skating star

Deaths:

• 1035 - Canute the Great
• 1094 - Duncan II of Scotland
• 1984 - Chester Himes[?], author
• 1990 - Eve Arden, actress
• 1993 - H. R. Haldeman, Watergate scandal figure
• 1994 - Wilma Rudolph, runner
• 2001 - Tony Miles, chess player

Holidays and Observances:

November 11 - November 13 - October 12 - December 12 -- listing of all days

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