About November 12
November 12, 2025 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.
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Scorpio is the sun 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.
What Happened On November 12
- 1555 –The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
- 1793 –Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
- 1892 –William “Pudge” Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
- 1933 –Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
- 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.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
- 1970 –The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
- 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.
- 1979 –Iran hostage crisis: in response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
- 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.
- 1990 –Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
- 1996 –A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
- 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.
- 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 –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.
- 2011 –Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.
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