About November 12
November 12, 2021 is the 316th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 49 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 81 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.
- 1439 –Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
- 1555 –The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
- 1892 –William “Pudge” Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
- 1893 –The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan; the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1948 –In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
- 1968 –Equatorial Guinea joins 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.
- 1975 –The Comoros joins the United Nations.
- 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.
- 1991 –Dili Massacre: Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
- 1999 –The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
- 2011 –Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.
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