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
- 1028 –Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanus Argyrus.
- 1602 –Sebastian Viscaino lands at and names San Diego, California.
- 1892 –William “Pudge” Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
- 1912 –The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
- 1936 –In California, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
- 1938 –Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the “Jewish homeland”, an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
- 1940 –World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France forces.
- 1941 –World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days.
- 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.
- 1968 –Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
- 1970 –The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous “exploding whale” incident.
- 1980 –The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
- 1990 –Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
- 1991 –Dili Massacre: Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
- 1997 –Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
- 2001 –Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
- 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.
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