November 12 Events |
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| November 12th, 2006 (November 12 2006) | Event | The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia. | |
| November 12th, 2003 (November 12 2003) | Event | 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. | |
| November 12th, 2003 (November 12 2003) | Event | With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial railway systems. | |
| November 12th, 2001 (November 12 2001) | Event | 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. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| November 12th, 2001 (November 12 2001) | Event | 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops. | |
| November 12th, 1999 (November 12 1999) | Event | The Duzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale. | |
| November 12th, 1998 (November 12 1998) | Event | Then Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol. | |
| November 12th, 1998 (November 12 1998) | Event | Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler. | |
| November 12th, 1997 (November 12 1997) | Event | Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. | |
| November 12th, 1996 (November 12 1996) | Event | A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. | |
| November 12th, 1993 (November 12 1993) | Event | Decree of President of Kazakhstan "About introducing national currency of Republic of Kazakhstan" is issued. | |
| November 12th, 1991 (November 12 1991) | Event | Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor. | |
| November 12th, 1990 (November 12 1990) | Event | Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch. | |
| November 12th, 1990 (November 12 1990) | Event | Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. | |
| November 12th, 1982 (November 12 1982) | Event | In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party s Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev. | Leonid Brezhnev Quotes |
| November 12th, 1982 (November 12 1982) | Event | Lech Walesa, a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months. | Lech Walesa Quotes |
| November 12th, 1981 (November 12 1981) | Event | The Space Shuttle Columbia becomes the first spacecraft to be launched twice. | |
| November 12th, 1980 (November 12 1980) | Event | The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes first images of its rings. | |
| November 12th, 1979 (November 12 1979) | Event | Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran. | Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| November 12th, 1978 (November 12 1978) | Event | As Bishop of Rome Pope John Paul II took possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran | |
| November 12th, 1971 (November 12 1971) | Event | Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam. | |
| November 12th, 1970 (November 12 1970) | Event | The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident. | |
| November 12th, 1969 (November 12 1969) | Event | Vietnam War: My Lai MassacreIndependent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story. | |
| November 12th, 1948 (November 12 1948) | Event | In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II. | |
| November 12th, 1946 (November 12 1946) | Event | A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows. | |
| November 12th, 1944 (November 12 1944) | Event | World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromso, Norway. | |
| November 12th, 1942 (November 12 1942) | Event | World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal, which would last for three days. | |
| November 12th, 1941 (November 12 1941) | Event | World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ø C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city. | |
| November 12th, 1941 (November 12 1941) | Event | The Soviet cruiser "Chervona Ukraina" is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol. | |
| November 12th, 1938 (November 12 1938) | Event | Hermann Goring announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl. | Hermann Goring Quotes |
| November 12th, 1936 (November 12 1936) | Event | In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic. | |
| November 12th, 1933 (November 12 1933) | Event | Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster. | |
| November 12th, 1927 (November 12 1927) | Event | Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union. | Leon Trotsky Quotes |
| November 12th, 1922 (November 12 1922) | Event | The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. | |
| November 12th, 1920 (November 12 1920) | Event | Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo. | |
| November 12th, 1918 (November 12 1918) | Event | Austria becomes a republic. | |
| November 12th, 1912 (November 12 1912) | Event | The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. | |
| November 12th, 1905 (November 12 1905) | Event | (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic. | |
| November 12th, 1893 (November 12 1893) | Event | The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistanthe Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister nations. | |
| November 12th, 1892 (November 12 1892) | Event | William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association. | |
| November 12th, 1847 (November 12 1847) | Event | Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic. | |
| November 12th, 1793 (November 12 1793) | Event | Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined. | |
| November 12th, 1555 (November 12 1555) | Event | The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism. | |
| November 12th, 1439 (November 12 1439) | Event | Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament. | |
| November 12th, 1028 (November 12 1028) | Event | Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII. | |
| November 12th, 0764 (November 12 0764) | Event | Tibetan troops occupy Chang an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days. | |
