1035 | | King Canute of Norway dies. |
1276 | | Suspicious of the intentions of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales, English King Edward I resolves to invade Wales. |
1859 | | The first flying-trapeze circus act is performed by Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon. |
1863 | | Confederate General James Longstreet arrives at Loudon, Tennessee, to assist the attack on Union General Ambrose Burnside's troops at Knoxville. |
1867 | | Mount Vesuvius erupts. |
1903 | | The Lebaudy brothers of France set an air-travel distance record of 34 miles in a dirigible. |
1923 | | Adolf Hitler is arrested for his attempted German coup. |
1927 | | Canada is admitted to the League of Nations. |
1928 | | The ocean liner Vestris sinks off the Virginia cape with 328 aboard, killing 111. |
1938 | | Mexico agrees to compensate the United States for land seizures. |
1941 | | Madame Lillian Evanti and Mary Cardwell Dawson establish the National Negro Opera Company. |
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. |
1948 | | Hikedi Tojo, Japanese prime minister, and seven others are sentenced to hang by an international tribunal. |
1951 | | The U.S. Eighth Army in Korea is ordered to cease offensive operations and begin an active defense. |
1960 | | The satellite Discoverer XVII is launched into orbit from California's Vandenberg AFB. |
1968 | | The U.S. Supreme Court voids an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. |
1971 | | President Richard Nixon announces the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by February. |
1987 | | Boris Yeltsin is fired as head of Moscow's Communist Party for criticizing the slow pace of reform. |
Born on November 12
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1815 | | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, political reformer and founder of the Women's Rights Convention. |
1817 | | Mirza Hoseyn 'Ali Nuri (Baha' Ullah), founder of the Baha'i faith. |
1840 | | Auguste Rodin, French sculptor. |
1866 | | Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary who founded the Nationalist Party. |
1889 | | DeWitt Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest. |
1911 | | Buck Clayton, jazz trumpeter. |
1922 | | Charlotte MacLeod, mystery writer (Rest You Merry, Maid of Honor). |
1929 | | Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco. |
1945 | | Tracy Kidder, writer (Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends). |
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