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
- 764 –Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
- 1439 –Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
- 1555 –The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1958 –A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
- 1990 –Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
Who were born on November 12?
- 1889 –DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (d. 1981)
- 1916 –Paul Emery, English racing driver (d. 1993)
- 1917 –Jo Stafford, American singer (d. 2008)
- 1937 –Jack Betts, American actor
- 1939 –Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
- 1949 –Jack Reed, American politician
- 1958 –Megan Mullally, American actress and singer
- 1970 –Craig Parker, New Zealand actor
- 1973 –Radha Mitchell, Australian actress
- 1975 –Nina Brosh, Israeli model and actress
Who died on November 12?
- 1035 –King Cnut the Great, Danish-born King of Denmark, England and Norway (b. 985 or 995)
- 1742 –Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
- 1793 –Jean Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
- 1836 –Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
- 1944 –Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
- 1976 –Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
- 1976 –Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
- 1994 –Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
- 2003 –Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
- 2006 –General Jacob E. Smart, American World War II figure (b. 1909)
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