What are the important events that happened on November 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 12: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 12 is the 317th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 49 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 30, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,731,369,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecaheptagon’ day.
Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 78 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,344 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 12 Historical Events
764 –
Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
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 nations.
1905 –
Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
1918 –
Austria becomes a republic.
1944 –
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 Tromsø, Norway.
1971 –
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.
1978 –
Pope John Paul II takes possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, as the Bishop of Rome.
1980 –
The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
1996 –
A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
2011 –
Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.
Who were born on November 12?
1886 –
Günther Dyhrenfurth, German geologist, and mountineer (d. 1975)
1890 –
Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
1897 –
Karl Marx, German composer (d. 1985)
1903 –
Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
1908 –
Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1999)
1940 –
Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician
1953 –
Baaba Maal, Senegalese singer and guitarist
1976 –
Judith Holofernes, German singer (Wir sind Helden)
1979 –
Corey Maggette, American basketball player
1984 –
Sepp De Roover, Belgian footballer
Who died on November 12?
1595 –
John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)
1667 –
Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598)
1916 –
Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer (b. 1855)
1944 –
Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
1965 –
Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Indian-born Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
1969 –
Liu Shaoqi, Chinese revolutionary, and statesman (b. 1898)
1987 –
Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish musician (b. 1937)
1994 –
Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
2000 –
Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
2010 –
Karl Plutus, Estonian jurist and centenarian (b. 1904)
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