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 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 49 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 30, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,762,905,600 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 ‘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 97 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 4,709 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 12 Historical Events
- 1028 –Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanus Argyrus.
- 1439 –Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
- 1918 –Austria becomes a republic.
- 1938 –Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the “Jewish homeland”, an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
- 1980 –The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
- 1981 –Space Shuttle program: mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
- 1997 –Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
- 1999 –The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
- 2003 –Iraq war: in Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
- 2003 –Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (501 km/h) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
Who were born on November 12?
- 1684 –Edward Vernon, English Royal Navy admiral (d. 1757)
- 1840 –Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
- 1916 –Paul Emery, English racing driver (d. 1993)
- 1919 –Jackie Washington, Canadian blues musician (d. 2009)
- 1962 –Brix Smith, American singer and guitarist (The Fall, The Adult Net)
- 1975 –Jason Lezak, American swimmer
- 1978 –Lena Yada, American actress, model, surfer and professional wrestler
- 1979 –Corey Maggette, American basketball player
- 1979 –Crown J, South Korean hip hop singer and rapper
- 1982 –Anne Hathaway, American actress
Who died on November 12?
- 1606 –St. Nicholas Owen, English Jesuit and martyr (b. c. 1550)
- 1941 –Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, American mobster (b. 1907)
- 1981 –William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1990 –Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1993 –H. R. Haldeman, American White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926)
- 1997 –Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
- 2003 –Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
- 2003 –Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)
- 2006 –General Jacob E. Smart, American World War II figure (b. 1909)
- 2008 –Catherine Baker Knoll, American politician (b. 1930)
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