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12 Nov 1439
Plymouth England becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
12 Nov 1555
The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
12 Nov 1614
Treaty of Xanten Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends
12 Nov 1682
Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy
12 Nov 1775
General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
12 Nov 1793
Jean Sylvain Bailly the first Mayor of Paris is guillotined.
12 Nov 1799
Andrew Ellicott makes the first known record of a meteor shower observation in the U.S from a ship off the coast of Florida Keys
12 Nov 1847
Sir James Young Simpson a British physician is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
12 Nov 1859
Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
12 Nov 1873
Bay District Race Track in San Francisco opens
12 Nov 1885
Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
12 Nov 1892
Pudge Heffelfinger receives 500 to become 1st pro football player in the Allegheny Athletic Associations 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Athletic Club
12 Nov 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 sister nations.
12 Nov 1894
Lawrence Hargrave Australian aeronautical pioneer and inventor of the box kite linked four huge box kites together and flew - but remained attached to the ground by piano wire
12 Nov 1900
Exposition Universelle (Worlds Fair) in Paris closes after 50 million visitors - Art Nouveau style dominates
12 Nov 1905
(November 12 & November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
12 Nov 1906
C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48 is 366 at stumps
12 Nov 1908
Andrew Fisher assumes the position of prime minister for what turns out to be a short-lived second Labour government Australia
12 Nov 1910
1st possible movie stunt man jumps into the Hudson river from a burning balloon
12 Nov 1914
Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
12 Nov 1915
Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
12 Nov 1918
Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates Austria becomes a republic
12 Nov 1919
Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
12 Nov 1920
Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
12 Nov 1920
The Dalmatian coast between Italy and Yugoslavia is ceded to Yugoslavia
12 Nov 1921
Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
12 Nov 1922
The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis Indiana.
12 Nov 1923
Dr Hjalmar Schacht is appointed special commissioner to deal with the currency problem in Germany by November 1924 the currency will have been restored
12 Nov 1926
The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County Illinois during a feud between rival liquor gangs the Sheltons and the Birgers
12 Nov 1927
Notre Dames Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
12 Nov 1928
British steamer Vestris capsizes & sinks off Virginia kills 110
12 Nov 1931
Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs 2-1
12 Nov 1931
Sibelius and Ashtons ballet Lady of Shalott premieres in London
12 Nov 1933
1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
12 Nov 1933
1st game at NFL Pitts Pirates Forbes Field lose to Bkln Dodgers 32-0
12 Nov 1933
First known photo of so-called Loch Ness monster is taken by Hugh Gray
12 Nov 1935
Egas Moniz performs the first modern brain surgery on the frontal lobes to treat mental disorders at Santa Marta Hospital in Lisbon Portugal
12 Nov 1936
1st ever TV Gardening show In Your Garden shown on BBC television
12 Nov 1936
Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene ONeill
12 Nov 1936
St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes & William O DeWitt
12 Nov 1939
Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David
12 Nov 1940
Blizzard strikes midwest 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
12 Nov 1941
Alma Heflin the first American female test pilot for commercial aircraft made her first test flight for the Piper Aircraft Corporation Lock Haven Pennsylvania
12 Nov 1942
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese forces in Solomon Islands (WWII)
12 Nov 1943
Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
12 Nov 1944
RAF sinks German battleship Tirpitz at Tromso Fjord Norway
12 Nov 1945
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
12 Nov 1946
A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
12 Nov 1947
KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
12 Nov 1947
Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced
12 Nov 1948
The first mobile betatron (particle accelerator) begins operation at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory White Oak Maryland
12 Nov 1950
Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards
12 Nov 1951
Paint Your Wagon opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances
12 Nov 1952
Philadelphia As pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
12 Nov 1952
White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape
12 Nov 1953
US district Judge Grim rules NFL can black out TV home games
12 Nov 1954
Ellis Island immigration station in NY Harbor closed
12 Nov 1955
E Arcaro E Sande & G Woolf inaugural inductees in Racing Hall of Fame
12 Nov 1956
Largest observed iceberg 208 by 60 miles 1st sighted
12 Nov 1960
Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
12 Nov 1987
Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria 20 crowned 37th Miss World
12 Nov 1988
Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
12 Nov 1989
George Forrests musical Grand Hotel opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances (5 Tony wins)
12 Nov 1989
Brazil holds its 1st free presidential election in 29 years
12 Nov 1990
Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
12 Nov 1990
The Body Bag Game - after Eagles coach Buddy Ryan threatens beating Redskins so badly theyll have to be carted off in body bags the Eagles defense score 3 touchdowns winning 2814 knocking 8 Redskins out of the game
12 Nov 1991
Full House 100th episode the twins are born
12 Nov 1991
Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award
12 Nov 1991
Dili Massacre Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of protesters in Dili East Timor killing at least 250
12 Nov 1992
NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time
12 Nov 1995
25th NYC Womens Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 22806
12 Nov 1995
26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 21000
12 Nov 1995
Marino breaks Tarkentons NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47003
12 Nov 1995
NY MTA raises subway & bus fares from 1.25 to 1.50
12 Nov 1996
Saudi Arabian Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 collide in midair over Charkhi Dadri in India killing 349 people the third-deadliest aviation disaster in history
12 Nov 1998
NY Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1 to end 10 game losing streak
12 Nov 1999
The Dzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
12 Nov 2001
Taliban forces abandon Afghanistans capital Kabul ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops
12 Nov 2001
In New York City American Airlines Flight 587 an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
12 Nov 2003
With 501 kmh (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial railway systems.
12 Nov 2003
Iraq war In Nasiriya Iraq at least 23 people among them the first Italian casualties of the Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
12 Nov 2006
Former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a second referendum on independence from Georgia
12 Nov 2006
Belgian tennis star Justine Hnin-Hardenne wins WTA Tour Championship title decider in Madrid Spain beats defending champion Amlie Mauresmo 6-4 6-3
12 Nov 2011
Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due in large part to the European sovereign debt crisis.
12 Nov 2012
Into the Silence by Wade Davis wins the Samuel Johnson Prize
12 Nov 2012
Novak okovi of Serbia wins his second season-ending ATP World Tour Finals tennis title beating 6-time champion Roger Federer 7-6 7-5 in the final in London. England
12 Nov 2014
European Space Agencys Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67PChuryumov-Gerasimenko
12 Nov 2015
Suicide bombings in Lebanon kill 43 Isis claim responsibility
12 Nov 2017
7.3 earthquake hits near Halabjal Iraq on border with Iran killing over 500 people with 7000 injured
12 Nov 2017
Federation Cup Womens Tennis Minsk Belarus American pair Shelby Rogers & Coco Vandeweghe beats Aryna Sabalenka & Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 6-3 7-6 to wrap up 3-2 win and record extending 18th title for the US
12 Nov 1964
Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
12 Nov 1965
General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
12 Nov 1965
Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver to become NWA champ
12 Nov 1965
Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
12 Nov 1966
Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha to become NWA champ
12 Nov 1966
Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
12 Nov 1967
Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
12 Nov 1967
Packers Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48) winning 55-7
12 Nov 1968
KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
12 Nov 1968
US Supreme Court Epperson v. Arkansas court declares unconstitutional Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools
12 Nov 1969
Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
12 Nov 1969
US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March 19
12 Nov 1969
WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville IL (ABC) 1st broadcast
12 Nov 1970
Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game) beating Portland 105-103
12 Nov 1970
Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
12 Nov 1970
Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) killing up to 500000 making it the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded
12 Nov 1970
The Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) is formed the NIHE gradually took over control of the building and allocation of public sector housing in Northern Ireland
12 Nov 1974
South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
12 Nov 1974
A salmon is discovered in the River Thames England for the first time since 1833
12 Nov 1975
NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
12 Nov 1975
Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
12 Nov 1975
7h Rugby League World Cup Australia beats England 25-0
12 Nov 1977
New Orleans elects 1st black mayor Ernest Dutch Morial
12 Nov 1978
Platinum opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
12 Nov 1979
Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
12 Nov 1979
US President Carter announces a halts to Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
12 Nov 1980
Baltimores Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
12 Nov 1980
US space probe Voyager I approaches 77000-mi (124000 km) of Saturn
12 Nov 1981
1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
12 Nov 1981
2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
12 Nov 1981
Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland As)
12 Nov 1981
Pilin Leon of Venezuela crowned 31st Miss World
12 Nov 1982
Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket for Pakistan v India goes to 215
12 Nov 1982
Aaron Pryor scores a 14th round KO of Alexis Argello in Miami to retain his WBA super lightweight boxing title in the first of 2 meetings between the Hall of Famers The Rings Fight of the Decade
12 Nov 1983
NJ Devils 1st overtime game lose to Calgary Flames 4-3
12 Nov 1984
Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
12 Nov 1984
NBC premiere of Victims for Victims The Theresa Saldana Story fact based telepic of actress Saldanas near fatal attack and its aftermath
12 Nov 1985
Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
12 Nov 1987
Teddy & Alice opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 77 performances
12 Nov 1942
WWII Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese forces in Solomon Islands
12 Nov 1992
British TV comedy Absolutely Fabulous written by Jennifer Saunders starring Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley first appears on the BBC
12 Nov 2018
Israeli secret operation in Gaza kills eight including one Israeli and an Hamas Commander igniting tensions with retaliatory rocket attack from Gaza
12 Nov 1723
Ambrose Godfrey patents a gunpowder fueled fire extinguisher system in England
12 Nov 1793
The 1st Mayor of Paris Jean Sylvain Bailly is guillotined during the Reign of Terror
12 Nov 1892
Pudge Heffelfinger receives 500 to become first professional football player in the Allegheny Athletic Associations 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Athletic Club
12 Nov 1920
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
12 Nov 1931
Jean Sibelius and Ashtons ballet Lady of Shalott premieres in London
12 Nov 1939
Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear a yellow star of David
12 Nov 1955
Eddie Arcaro Earl Sande and George Woolf inaugural inductees in (Horse) Racing Hall of Fame
12 Nov 1682
Swedish king Charles XI establishes absolute monarchy
12 Nov 1775
General Washington forbids recruiting officers from enlisting black troops
12 Nov 1793
The 1st Mayor of Paris and astronomer Jean Sylvain Bailly is guillotined during the Reign of Terror
12 Nov 1912
Spanish Prime Minister Jos Canalejas y Mndez is assassinated by an anarchist book shopping in Madrid
12 Nov 1915
Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago in the Western Pacific
12 Nov 1915
Theodore William Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
12 Nov 1924
Jewish school Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Hebron Palestine
12 Nov 1933
Nazis receive 92% of vote in German parliamentary elections
12 Nov 1939
Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear a yellow star of David
12 Nov 1940
Blizzard strikes North American midwest 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
12 Nov 1945
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to American politician Cordell Hull (for establishing the UN)
12 Nov 1954
Ellis Island immigration station in NY Harbor is closed
12 Nov 1966
18-year-old US High schooler Robert Smith kills 5 people at Arizonas Rose-Mar Beauty College for fame
12 Nov 1975
American Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas (77) retires after 36 years
12 Nov 1673
Dutch troops under William of Orange occupy Bonn
12 Nov 1933
1st NFL football game on a Sunday at Philadelphias Baker Bowl - sporting events on Sunday had been illegal on Sundays Eagles tie Chicago Bears 3-3
12 Nov 1933
1st NFL football game on a Sunday at Pittsburghs Forbes Field - sporting events on Sunday had been illegal on Sundays Pirates lose to Brooklyn Dodgers 32-0
12 Nov 1941
Alma Heflin 1st female test pilot for commercial aircraft - Piper Corporation Lock Haven Pennsylvania
12 Nov 1941
Radio stations WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters
12 Nov 1989
George Forrests musical Grand Hotel opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC runs for 1018 performances and wins 5 Tony Awards
12 Nov 1915
Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
12 Nov 1972
Charity concert for United Crusade (now United Way) in San Diego California attracts nearly 52000 performers include J. Geils Band Jesse Colin Young Quicksilver Messenger Service Foghat and Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
12 Nov 1978
Gary William Friedman and Will Holts musical Platinum opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC runs for 33 performances
12 Nov 1995
Comedy revue Danny Gans on Broadway The Man of Many Voices closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 6 performances
12 Nov 2008
42nd Country Music Association Awards Kenny Chesney Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley win
12 Nov 2011
Opera Silent Night by Kevin Puts opens at the Ordway Theater St. Paul sung in English German French Italian and Latin (winner 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music) [1]
12 Nov 1910
First possible movie stunt A man jumps into the Hudson River from a burning balloon
12 Nov 1928
British steamer Vestris sailing from NYC to Uruguay capsizes and sinks off Hampton Roads Virginia kills 111 including many women and children
12 Nov 1936
First-ever TV gardening show In Your Garden airs on the BBC
12 Nov 1942
Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese naval forces in the Solomon Islands
12 Nov 1955
Doc and Marty McFly are sent Back to the Future when lightning strikes the Hill Valley clock tower at exactly 1004 p.m. generating the power to send the DeLorean and Marty back to 1985 [fictional]
12 Nov 1968
US Supreme Court Epperson v. Arkansas declares unconstitutional the Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools
12 Nov 1970
Cleveland Cavaliers notch 1st NBA victory in their 16th game beating the Trail Blazers 105-103 in Portland Oregon
12 Nov 1970
Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) killing up to 500000 people making it the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded
12 Nov 1982
Zaheer Abbas scores his 100th first-class century while playing a Test for Pakistan against India goes on to score 215 runs
12 Nov 1989
George Forrests musical Grand Hotel opens at the Martin Beck Theatre in NYC runs for 1018 performances and wins five Tony Awards
12 Nov 1999
Dzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 killing 845 people and causing widespread destruction
12 Nov 2001
American Airlines Flight 587 an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in NYC killing all 260 on board and five on the ground
12 Nov 2003
In Nasiriya Iraq at least 23 people including the first Italian casualties of the Iraq War are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base
12 Nov 2003
Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world record for commercial railway systems with a speed of 501 kmh (311 mph)
12 Nov 2019
Disney launches its film and television streaming service Disney
12 Nov 2019
Former Houston Astros MLB pitcher Mike Fiers reveals team secretly stole signs via camera from visiting teams 2015-17 comms between opposing pitchers & catchers intercepted and relayed to Astros batters
12 Nov 1723
Ambrose Godfrey patents a gunpowder-fueled fire extinguisher system in England
12 Nov 1847
Sir James Young Simpson a British physician is the first to use chloroform as an anesthetic
12 Nov 1859
Jules Leotard performs the first flying trapeze circus act in Paris he also designs the garment that bears his name
12 Nov 1919
Ross and Keith Smith start a one-month flight from London to Australia
12 Nov 1933
Hugh Gray takes the first known photo of the so-called Loch Ness monster
12 Nov 1940
Blizzard strikes North American midwest 154 die including 69 on boat asail in the Great Lakes
12 Nov 1941
Alma Heflin becomes the first female test pilot for commercial aircraft at Piper Corporation Lock Haven Pennsylvania
12 Nov 1942
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese naval forces in the Solomon Islands US forces prevail after days of intense fighting
12 Nov 1955
Doc and Marty McFly are sent Back to the Future when lightning strikes the Hill Valley clock tower at exactly 1004 pm generating the power to send the DeLorean and Marty back to 1985 [fictional]
12 Nov 1956
The largest observed iceberg 208 by 60 miles is first sighted
12 Nov 1964
Paula Murphy sets a female land speed record of 226.37 mph (364.31 kmh)
12 Nov 1973
British sitcom series Last of the Summer Wine debuts on BBC it goes on to become the longest running sitcom ever airing for 31 seasons
12 Nov 1981
First balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
12 Nov 1988
First commercial bungy jumping company begins operating near Queenstown New Zealand run by A. J. Hackett
12 Nov 2019
Israeli forces kill senior commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip with Palestinian militants setting off retaliatory rockets at Israel
12 Nov 2021
At least 68 inmates killed in new fighting at Ecuadorean prison the Litoral Penitentiary Guayaquil following earlier violence in September
12 Nov 2022
New Zealands Black Ferns win Womens World Rugby Championship defeating England 34-31 at Eden Park in Auckland in front of a capacity crowd [1]
12 Nov 2022
Two vintage aircraft crash in midair at the Wings Over Dallas WWII Airshow killing all six people [1]
12 Nov 2022
US Mid-term elections Democrats retain control of the Senate with Catherine Cortez Mastos victory in Nevada 50-49 with run-off in Georgia still to be decided [1]
12 Nov 2023
Unprecedented heatwave in Brazil affects more than 3000 towns with Rio de Janeiro reaching 42.5C - very high humidity makes it feel like 58.5C [1]
12 Nov 2023
WHO calls for attacks on and around hospitals in Gaza to stop with newborn babies reportedly dying as a result of power water and oxygen cuts [1]
12 Nov 2024
Orbital by British writer Samantha Harvey set on the International Space Station wins the Booker Prize for fiction [1]
12 Nov 2024
Former Massachusetts Air National Guard Jack Teixeira is sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing classified information from the Pentagon and sharing it online [1]
12 Nov 2024
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigns in the wake of a report into a church sex abuser that said he should have notified him to police [1]
12 Nov 2024
US State Department confirms over 10000 North Korea troops have joined Russian forces in the Kursk region to fight Ukraine in a major escalation of the war [1]