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, 489,696 hours 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
- 1439 –Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
- 1920 –Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
- 1928 –SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 mi off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
- 1936 –In California, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
- 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.
- 1975 –The Comoros joins the United Nations.
- 1980 –The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
- 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.
- 1999 –The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
Who were born on November 12?
- 1790 –Letitia Christian Tyler, US First Lady (d. 1842)
- 1889 –DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (d. 1981)
- 1890 –Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
- 1892 –Tudor Davies, Welsh operatic tenor (d. 1958)
- 1916 –Jean Papineau-Couture, French-Canadian composer (d. 2000)
- 1922 –Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)
- 1948 –Cliff Harris, American football player
- 1963 –Sam Lloyd, American actor
- 1973 –Mayte Garcia, American dancer
- 1979 –Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler
Who died on November 12?
- 1434 –King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
- 1555 –Stephen Gardiner, English statesman (b. 1497)
- 1595 –John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)
- 1916 –Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer (b. 1855)
- 1933 –F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (b. 1864)
- 1965 –Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Indian-born Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
- 1976 –Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
- 1976 –Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
- 2001 –Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
- 2003 –Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
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