November 12 in History
What happened on November 12 in history?
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on november 12 in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened on november 12 in history.
?>2003
The first Italians to die in the Iraq War are among 23 fatalities from a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base in Nasiriya, iraq.
2003
Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (311 mph or 501 kph) for commercial railway systems.
1997
Ramzi Yousef convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
1996
A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collides with a Kazakh Illyushin II-76 cargo plane near New Delhi, killing 349. It is the deadliest mid-air collision to date (2013) and third-deadliest aircraft accident.
1990
Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan.
1990
Sir Timothy John 'Tim' Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, publishes a formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web.
1987
Boris Yeltsin is fired as head of Moscow’s Communist Party for criticizing the slow pace of reform.
1971
President Richard Nixon announces the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by February.
1968
The U.S. Supreme Court voids an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools.
1960
The satellite Discoverer XVII is launched into orbit from California’s Vandenberg AFB.
1951
The U.S. Eighth Army in Korea is ordered to cease offensive operations and begin an active defense.
1948
Hikedi Tojo, Japanese prime minister, and seven others are sentenced to hang by an international tribunal.
1944
U.S. fighters wipe out a Japanese convoy near Leyte, consisting of six destroyers, four transports and 8,000 troops.
1944
The German battleship Tirpitz is sunk in a Norwegian fjord.
1941
Madame Lillian Evanti and Mary Cardwell Dawson establish the National Negro Opera Company.
1938
Mexico agrees to compensate the United States for land seizures.
1928
The ocean liner Vestris sinks off the Virginia cape with 328 aboard, killing 111.
1927
Canada is admitted to the League of Nations.
1923
Adolf Hitler is arrested for his attempted German coup.
1903
The Lebaudy brothers of France set an air-travel distance record of 34 miles in a dirigible.
1867
Mount Vesuvius erupts.
1863
Confederate General James Longstreet arrives at Loudon, Tennessee, to assist the attack on Union General Ambrose Burnside’s troops at Knoxville.
1859
The first flying-trapeze circus act is performed by Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon.
1276
Suspicious of the intentions of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales, English King Edward I resolves to invade Wales.
1035
King Canute of Norway dies.