What happened this day in history November 12

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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