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Events from History on November 12

1591 : Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza
1614 : Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends
1673 : Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn
1682 : Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy
1727 : France & Bavaria renew secret treaty
1775 : General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1813 : Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth
1823 : Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens
1859 : He also designed garment that bears his name
1859 : Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris)
1873 : Bay District Race Track opens
1892 : Allegheny Athletic Assn beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football
1892 : Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1899 : British troops reach Durban Natal
1900 : World's Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors)
1906 : C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps
1910 : 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1912 : Robert Scott's diary & dead body found in Antarctica
1914 : Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
1915 : Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago
1915 : Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
1918 : Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
1919 : Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1921 : Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1923 : In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8
1924 : Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron
1925 : US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
1927 : 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens
1927 : Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1927 : Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1928 : British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110
1931 : Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
1931 : Sibelius/Ashton's ballet "Lady of Shalott," premieres in London
1932 : 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion
1933 : 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
1933 : Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
1936 : 1st TV Gardening show
1936 : Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill
1936 : Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1936 : St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes & William O DeWitt
1938 : Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
1939 : Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David
1940 : Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
1941 : Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
1941 : WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters
1942 : In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
1943 : Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
1944 : RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Troms” Fjord Norway
1945 : Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
1946 : 1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago)
1946 : Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
1947 : KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
1947 : Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced
1948 : Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1951 : "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances
1951 : 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Ala
1952 : Phila A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
1952 : White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape
1953 : David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel
1954 : Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1955 : 1st West German officers sworn in
1955 : Date returned to in "Back to the Future" & "Back to the Future II"
1955 : E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
1956 : Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1958 : Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award
1960 : Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails
1960 : Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
1963 : Train crash in Japan, kills 164
1964 : Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1964 : Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1965 : Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
1965 : General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
1965 : Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1966 : Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
1966 : High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1967 : Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
1967 : Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against
1968 : KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 : Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in
1968 : public schools unconstitutional
1969 : Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1969 : US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre
1969 : WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast
1969 : of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
1970 : 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
1970 : Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
1973 : Dmitri Shostakovitch' 14th String Quartet premieres
1974 : South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
1975 : NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
1975 : Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
1977 : Ernest N Morial elected mayor of New Orleans
1977 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 : New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial
1978 : "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
1979 : Pres Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil
1979 : Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
1979 : US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
1980 : Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
1980 : NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1980 : US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
1981 : 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1981 : 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 : Bill C Davis' "Mass Appeal," premieres in NYC
1981 : Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's)
1981 : Great Britain performs nuclear test
1981 : Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World
1982 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 : USSR KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as USSR leader
1983 : 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
1984 : Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"
1984 : Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
1985 : Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles,
1985 : Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
1985 : STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 : Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
1986 : France performs nuclear test
1986 : Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
1987 : "Teddy & Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 77 performances
1987 : Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
1987 : Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World [12?]
1988 : Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
1988 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 : "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances
1989 : Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1989 : George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
1991 : "Full House" 100th episode-twins are born
1991 : Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award
1991 : Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die
1992 : NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time
1995 : NY MTA raises subway & bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50
1995 : STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit
1996 : Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
1997 : Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award
1998 : NY Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak

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