About November 12
November 12, 2024 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.
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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 78 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 12
- 764 –Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
- 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.
- 1793 –Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
- 1912 –The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
- 1927 –Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 1938 –Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the “Jewish homeland”, an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
- 1941 –World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.
- 1958 –A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1990 –Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2011 –Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.
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