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The12t o Novemberis the 316t day o the year (317t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 49 days bidin.
Events
1980:Saturnan its Rings
2001:Photo o Flicht 587 crash site inQueens,New York Ceety
- 1793-Jean-Sylvain Bailly,firstMayoroParis,is executit bi guillotine.
- 1847- Scots medicinarJames Young Simpsonpublishes a piece on the effects ochloroform.
- 1905- A majority o voters in newly independentNorawasupport haein a monarchy.
- 1908- A mine shaft splosion inHamm,wastrenGermany,kills 348 fowk.
- 1918-Austrickbecomes a republic.
- 1928- Theship"SS Vestris" sinks aroond 200 kilometres aff Hampton Roads,Virginie,killin at least 110 fowk.
- 1956-Morocco,SudananTunisiejyn theUnitit Naitions.
- 1968-Equatorial Guineajyns theUnitit Naitions.
- 1975- TheComorosjyn theUnitit Naitions.
- 1980- TheVoyager 1spacecraft taks pictures o the planetSaturnan its rings.
- 1982- Pols Solidarity leaderLech Walesais released.
- 1982-Yuri Andropovis installed as leader o theSoviet Unionefter the daith oLeonid Brezhnev.
- 1990-Akihitois formally installed as Emperor oJapan.
- 1990-Tim Berners-Leepublishes his final proposal for theWarld Wide Web.
- 1995-Mozambiquejyns theCommonweel o Nations.
- 1999- Ayirdquaukin NorthwastrenTurkeykills 370 fowk.
- 2001- American Airlines Flicht 587 crashes inQueens,New York Ceety,killin 260 fowk.
- 2003- A suicide bombin on an Italianpolisbase inNasiriyah,Iraq,kills 23 fowk.
- 2011-Silvio Berlusconiresigns asPrime meenisteroItaly.
- 2014- The Rosetta spacecraft's Philae lander lands onComet67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
- 2015- Suicide bomb attacks inBeirut,Lebanon,kill at least 40 fowk.
- 2017- A magnitude 7.3yirdquaukhits the mairch region oIrananIraq,killin at least 450 fowk.
Births
Auguste Rodin
Ryan Gosling
- 1774-Charles Bell,Scots anatomist an pheesiologist (d.1842)
- 1815-Elizabeth Cady Stanton,American activist (d.1902)
- 1817-Baha'u'llah,founder o theBaha'i Faith(d.1892)
- 1833-Alexander Borodin,Roushie componer (d.1887)
- 1840-Auguste Rodin,French sculptor (d.1917)
- 1842-John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh,Inglis pheesicist (d.1919)
- 1866-Sun Yat-sen,Cheenese poleetical leader (d.1925)
- 1915-Roland Barthes,French polymath (d.1980)
- 1923-Loriot,German comedian, actor an writer (d.2011)
- 1929-Michael Ende,German writer (d.1995)
- 1929-Grace Kelly,American actress an Princess oMonaco(d.1982)
- 1933-Jalal Talabani,Iraqi Kurdishpoliteecian,PresesoIraq(d.2017)
- 1934-Charles Manson,American mass murtherer an cult leader (d.2017)
- 1945-Neil Young,Canadian sangster an sangwriter
- 1948-Hassan Rouhani,PresesoIran
- 1960-Maurane,Belgian sangster (d.2018)
- 1961-Nadia Comaneci,Romanian gymnast
- 1964-Michael Kremer,American economist
- 1968-Kathleen Hanna,American sangster
- 1971-Chen Guangcheng,Cheenese activist
- 1975-Katherine Grainger,Scots rower
- 1980-Ryan Gosling,Canadian actor
- 1980-Bob Malcolm,Scots fitbawer
- 1982-Anne Hathaway,American actress
- 1996-Scott McKenna,Scots fitbawer
Daiths
Halidays
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