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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 316th day of the year 2019 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, 2019 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,573,516,800 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 ‘trihectadecahexagon’ day.
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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 74 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 2,517 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 12 Historical Events
- 1920 –Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
- 1936 –In California, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
- 1940 –World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France forces.
- 1982 –In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
- 1997 –Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Who were born on November 12?
- 1896 –Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
- 1941 –Carol Gluck, American academic and Japanologist
- 1962 –Mark Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 –Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter
- 1979 –Lucas Glover, American professional golfer
Who died on November 12?
- 1671 –Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (b. 1612)
- 1939 –Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
- 1969 –Liu Shaoqi, Chinese revolutionary, and statesman (b. 1898)
- 2001 –Albert Hague, German-born American actor and songwriter (b. 1920)
- 2010 –Karl Plutus, Estonian jurist and centenarian (b. 1904)
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