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, 28,856,160 minutes 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
- 1920 –Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
- 1927 –Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
- 1938 –Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the “Jewish homeland”, an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
- 1941 –World War II: temperatures around Moscow drop to -12° C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
- 1956 –Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
- 1970 –The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous “exploding whale” incident.
- 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.
- 1982 –In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
- 2001 –In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
- 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?
- 1547 –Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575)
- 1729 –Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
- 1897 –Karl Marx, German composer (d. 1985)
- 1937 –Jack Betts, American actor
- 1952 –Ronald Burkle, American entrepreneur
- 1961 –Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
- 1968 –Sammy Sosa, Dominican baseball player
- 1969 –Jason Cundy, English footballer and broadcaster
- 1976 –Judith Holofernes, German singer (Wir sind Helden)
- 1976 –Richelle Mead, American writer
Who died on November 12?
- 1595 –John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)
- 1606 –St. Nicholas Owen, English Jesuit and martyr (b. c. 1550)
- 1865 –Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
- 1933 –F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (b. 1864)
- 1955 –Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
- 1969 –Liu Shaoqi, Chinese revolutionary, and statesman (b. 1898)
- 1972 –Rudolf Friml, Czech composer (b. 1879)
- 1976 –Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
- 1990 –Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1993 –H. R. Haldeman, American White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926)
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