On this day in History - Nov. 12

0607 - Pope Boniface III dies.
0764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
1028 - Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of dying Constantine VIII
1035 - Canute the Great dies at 41. King of the Danes (1016-1035)
1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland dies (b. 1060)
1202 - Canute VI dies (b. 1163). King of Denmark.
1381 - Adolphus, Count of Cleves, institutes the Order of Fools
1434 - King Louis III of Naples dies.
1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1459 - University of Basel, Switzerland, chartered.
1493 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli was born (d. 1560). Italian sculptor.
1494 - Revolt of Pisa from Florentine rule.
1528 - Qi Jiguang was born (d. 1588). Chinese general.
1555 - Stephen Gardiner dies. English stateman.
1595 - John Hawkins dies (b. 1532). English shipbuilder and trader.
1606 - Jeanne Mance was born (d. 1673). French Canadian settler.
1609 - Opening and closing times of plays regulated in Paris.
1614 - Treaty of Xantem Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends
1615 - Richard Baxter was born (d. 1691). English clergyman.
1642 - Charles I and the Royalist Army arrive at Brentford, England.
1648 - Juama Inies de La Cruz was born (d. 1695). Mexican poet, nun and feminist (Primer Sueno)
1667 - Hans Nansen dies (b. 1598). Danish statesman.
1671 - Thomas Fairfax dies (b. 1612). English Civil War general.
1729 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville was born (d. 1811). French explorer.
1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann dies (b. 1660). German physician and chemist.
1746 - Jacques Charles was born (d. 1823). French chemist.
1755 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst was born (d. 1813). Prussian general.
1757 - Colley Cibber dies (b. 1671). English poet.
1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly dies guillotined. French astronomer and orator
1795 - Thaddeus William Harris was born (d. 1856). American naturalist.
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born (d. 1902). American women's rights activist.
1817 - Bahá'u'lláh was born (d. 1892). Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
1833 - Alexander Borodin was born (d. 1887). Russian composer.
1840 - Auguste Rodin was born (d. 1917). French sculptor (Kiss, Thinker)
1842 - John Strutt was born (d. 1919). 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1850 - Mikhail Chigorin was born (d. 1908). Russian chess player.
1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell dies (b. 1810). English novelist.
1866 - Sun Yat-sen was born (d. 1925). First President of the Republic of China
1889 - DeWitt Wallace was born (d. 1981). American magazine publisher.
1896 - Salim Ali was born (d. 1987). Indian ornithologist.
1898 - Leon Štukelj was born (d. 1999).Slovene gymnast, Olympic gold medalist and athlete
1900 - Nascia Ricardo Espírito Santo. Banqueiro e empresário português.
1903 - Jack Oakie was born (d. 1978). American actor.
1903 - Camille Pissarro dies. French painter.
1905 - (November 12 & 13) Norway holds referendum in favour of monarchy over republic.
1908 - Harry Blackmun was born (d. 1999). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
1914 - Augusto dos Anjos dies (b. 1884). Brazilian poet.
1915 - Roland Barthes was born (d. 1980). French sociologist, philosopher and writer.
1916 - Percival Lowell dies (b. 1855). American astronomer.
1917 - Jo Stafford was born. American singer
1918 - Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates and Austria becomes a republic.
1918 - Odete de Saint-Maurice was born. Portuguese writer.
1920 - Richard Quine was born (d. 1989). American actor.
1922 - Kim Hunter was born (d. 2002). American actress.
1923 - Vicco von Bülow was born. German graphic artist, actor and film director
1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1929 - Michael Ende was born (d. 1995). German writer.
1929 - Grace Kelly was born (d. 1982). Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress. (Philadelphia Story, Rear Window
1930 - Ann Flood was born. American actress
1930 - Fundação do Clube Desportivo das Aves
1933 - O NDASP, partido nazi de Adolf Hitler, vence as eleições alemãs com mais de 90% dos votos e chega ao poder.
1933 - Hugh Gray of the British Aluminium Company takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster; four of them turn out to be blank, while the last one is later proven to be a hoax.
1934 - The musical Babes in Toyland debuts, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as comic relief (see Laurel and Hardy).
1934 - Charles Manson was born. American cult leader and mass murderer.
1936 - In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1956 - Marrocos, Sudão e Tunísia são admitidos como Estados-Membros da ONU
1938 - Hermann Göring announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
1941 - World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
a Soviet cruiser "Chervona Ukraina" was destroyed during the battle of Sevastopol
1941 - João Nogueira was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian singer and composer
1941 - Abe "Kid Twist" Reles dies (b. 1907). American mobster.
1942 -Paulinho da Viola was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian singer and composer
1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal, will last for three days.
1943 - Brian Hyland was born. American singer
1943 - Wallace Shawn was born. American actor and playwright
1944 - Booker T. Jones was born. American musician, singer, and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's)
1944 - Al Michaels was born. American television sportscaster
1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force launches one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz off the coast of Norway.
1945 - Neil Young was born. Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician
1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows. 1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
1948 - Umberto Giordano dies (b. 1867). Italain composer.
1955 - Alfréd Hajós dies (b. 1878). Hungarian swimmer.
1956 - Francisco Louçã was born. Portuguese politician and economist.
1958 - Megan Mullally was born. American actress
1961 - Nadia Comaneci was born. Romanian gymnast
1963 - Sula Miranda (Suely Brito de Miranda) was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian singer.
1966 - David Schwimmer was born. American actor
1967 - Michael Moorer was born. American boxer
1968 - Sammy Sosa was born. Dominican Major League Baseball player
1968 - Aaron Stainthorpe was born. British singer (My Dying Bride)
1969 - Kathleen Hanna was born. American singer and songwriter
1969 - Heinz-Christian Strache was born. Austrian politician
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 Gray whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident
1970 - Tonya Harding was born. American figure skater
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.
1972 - Rudolf Friml dies. American composer.
1972 - Reynaldo Gianecchini was born in Birigui- S. Paulo. Brazilian actor
1976 - São realizadas as primeiras eleições autárquicas de Portugal (veja também I Governo Constitucional de Portugal)
1976 - Walter Piston dies (b. 1894). American composer.
1977 - Benni McCarthy was born. South-ASfrican football player (FC Porto)
1978 - Andrew Kinlochan was born. English singer and musician
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 aproach to Saturn.
1980 - Ryan Gosling was born. Canadian actor
1981 - William Holden dies (b. 1981). American actor.
1982 - Anne Hathaway was born. American actress
1982 - In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1984 - Chester Himes dies (b. 1909). American author.
1989 - Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1989 - Dolores Ibárruri, La Pasionaria, morre em Madrid. Presidente histórica do Partido comunista espanhol.
1990 - Eve Arden dies (b. 1908). American actress.
1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1990 - A escritora portuguesa Agustina Bessa-Luís é nomeada pela SEC directora do Teatro Nacional D. Maria II.
1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1991 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
1991 - Em Roma, o escritor português José Cardoso Pires recebe o Prémio União Latina.
1992 - Absolutely Fabulous airs its first episode on BBC1.
1993 - H. R. Haldeman dies (b. 1926). Watergate scandal figure.
1993 - O escritor português José Saramago recebe o Prémio Vida Literária.
1994 - Wilma Rudolph dies (b. 1940). American runner.
1995 - A República Popular de Moçambique é admitida como membro da Commonwealth.
1995 - Luís Mateus dies. Portuguese journalist.
1996 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, India killing 349.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
1998 - Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.
2001 - In New York City, an Airbus A300 carrying American Airlines Flight 587 crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board.
2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2001 - Tony Miles dies (b. 1955). English chess player.
2002 - Special Extended DVD Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is released.
2003 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2003 - Jonathan Brandis dies (b. 1976). American actor.
2003 - Penny Singleton dies (b. 1908). American actress.
2003 - Tony Thompson dies (b. 1954). American drummer (The Power Station).
2003 - Portugual: Parte para o Iraque o contingente de 124 militares da GNR.
2004 - Scott Peterson is found guilty of first degree murder of his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn son Conner after a five-and-a-half month long trial.
Resignation of Colin Powell as Secretary of State.
Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day, Birth of Bahá'u'lláh
Saudi Arabia : Coronation Day
Bermuda : Rememberance Day
Taiwan : Sun Yat Sen's Birthday (1866)
Dia do Supermercado - Brasil
BBC: On This Day