Monday, November 12, 2012

November 12th in History


607 - Pope Boniface III dies

764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.

1035 - King Cnut the Great, King of Denmark, England and Norway dies

1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.

1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.

1905 - Norway holds a referendum in favour of monarchy over republic.

1918 - Austria becomes a republic.

1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.

1941 - World War II: temperatures around Moscow drop to -12° C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.

1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.

1956 - Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.

1968 - Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations.

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.

1975 - The Comoros joins the United Nations.

1978 - Pope John Paul II takes possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, as the Bishop of Rome.

1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.

2011 - Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.

Famous Birthdays:

1547 - Claude of Valois, Princess - the second daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.

1790 - Letitia Christian Tyler, US First Lady

1881 - Maximilian von Weichs, field marshal

1911 - Buck Clayton, jazz trumpet player

1929 - Grace Kelly, actress and Princess consort of Monaco

1945 - Neil Young, singer and guitarist

1968 - Sharon Shannon, musician

1980 - Ryan Gosling, actor






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