November 12: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

November 12th marks the 316th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 317th in case of leap years). There are 49 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Scorpio. Famous birthdays on this day include Grace Kelly (1929), Ryan Gosling (1980) and Charles Manson (1934).
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Holidays

R.C. Saints - Saint Lieven (Leafwini, Lebuin); Josaphat Kuncevyc
Also see November 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
National Holiday: Sun Yat-Sen (observed in China and Taiwan)
In the Back To The Future film trilogy, November 12, 1955 is a key date. It is the date of the "famous Hill Valley lightning storm" which sends Marty McFly back to 1985 in his DeLorean time machine, and the date Marty gets his parents together. In Back to the Future Part II, Marty and Doc Brown return to this date to stop Biff Tannen from changing history. Doc Brown hyposthesizes that this date might hold some special significance, being the temporal junction point for the entire space-time
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2018 Israel and Hamas exchange missile firing, with 300 rockets launched from Gaza in three hours.
2017 2017 in the Central African Republic - A grenade attack on a Peace Concert in Bangui (Central African Republic) kills 7 and injures 20,
2016 2016 Khuzdar bombing in Pakistan: A bomb blast in the Shah Noorani Shrine in Hub, Lasbela District of Balochistan, Pakistan killed at least 52 people and left more than 100 others injured. ISIL claimed responsibility. (The News) (GEO tv) (Daily Pakistan),
2015 Conflict between Israel and Palestine: Israeli agents disguised as Arabs, escorting a woman during labor, raid a hospital in Hebron (West Bank), seizing a Palestinian suspect of stabbing and killing his cousin.
2014 2014 Russian military intervention into Ukraine: NATO claims that Russian Army soldiers and military equipment entered Ukraine.
2013 A bomb explodes in Bedfordview (South Africa), near the Eastgate shopping center. Two people are killed, and five more are injured.
2012 Syrian civil war: After a similar incident on the previous day, a second mortar shell from Syria was fired at an Israeli military post in the Golan Heights. Israel Defence Forces responded by firing tanks at the source of the bombardment and scoring several hits on artillery units of the Syrian Army.
2011 Uprising in Syria:
2010 Two soldiers are killed when a convoy of Chinese miners is attacked in Cabinda Province (Angola), killing two.
2009 The 2009 Lincoln and Presidency Cents are now available from the US Mint.
2008 The US Treasury has decided not to use Troubled Asset Relief Program money to purchase mortgage-backed securities but to instead inject cash directly into select banks.
2007 Didymus Mutasa (Minister of Lands and Security in Zimbabwe) admits before a Paris court that the Mugabe government stole land belonging to ten Dutch citizens. The citizens can seize property of equal value owned by the Zimbabwean government if the government doesn't compensate them.
2006 Ronald Reagan is no longer the longest-living President of the United States than Gerald Ford.
2005 Amir Peretz is the new head for the Israeli Labor Party and warns Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister, that if Sharon doesn't pick an early election date, Peretz will initiate a motion in no confidence forcing a snap vote within 90 days.
2004 A jury in Redwood City, California finds Scott Peterson guilty for the murders of Laci Peterson and Conner Peterson.
2003 Shanghai Transrapid establishes a new speed record for commercial railway systems (501 km/h (311 mph).
2002 Ethiopian famine: Meles Zewi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, is reported to have said that the Ethiopian famine could be worse than that of 1984. According to reports, he said that ampquotif that were a nightmare, this would be too ghastly for me to contemplateampquot and appealed for Ethiopian famine relief.
2001 American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on route to the Dominican Republic from New York City, crashed shortly after takeoff at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It killed all 260 passengers on board as well as five crew members.
1999 The Duzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
1998 New York Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak
1997 Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004
1996 A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
1995 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
1993 London Convention: Marine dumping of radioactive waste is outlawed.
1992 New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time
1991 Full House 100th episode-twins are born
1990 Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1989 Grand Hotel opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances
1988 Japan beats Major League Baseball All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7).
1987 Teddy & Alice opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 77 performances
1986 Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
1985 Secretary in Ann Arbor Michigan wounded by package bomb
1984 Paul McCartney releases We All Stand Together
1983 New Jersey Devils, first overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3.
1982 USSR KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as USSR leader
1981 Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World
1980 New York City Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1979 President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil
1978 Platinum opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
1977 Ernest N Morial elected Mayor of New Orleans
1975 New York Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
1974 South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
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.
1970 240 km/h cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1968 KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1966 Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1965 Ferdinand Marcos elected President of Philippines
1964 Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1963 Train crash in Japan, kills 164
1960 Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails
1959 The Warner Bros. religious epic ''The Miracle'', very loosely based on the 1911 stage pantomime ''Das Mirakel'', is released. It is a critical and financial bomb.
1958 Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award
1956 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, first sighted.
1955 1st West German officers sworn in
1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in New York Harbor, closes, after processing more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892.
1953 David Ben-Gurion, resigns as Premier of Israel
1952 Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
1951 Paint Your Wagon opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances
1950 Gene Roberts sets NFL New York Giants rushing record (218 yards) against Chicago Cardinals.
1948 Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1947 KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC
1946 1st autobank (banking by car) forms (Chicago)
1945 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull
1944 World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Troms?, Norway.
1943 Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in the Netherlands
1942 In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
1941 WOV-AM andWNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters
1940 Blizzard strikes midwestern US, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes).
1938 French Finance Minister Paul Reynaud brings into effect a series of laws aiming at improving French productivity (thus aiming to undo the economic weaknesses which led to Munich), and undoes most of the economic and social laws of the Popular Front.
1936 St. Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes and William O DeWitt
1933 Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
1932 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion
1931 Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chicago Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
1928 British steamer Vestris capsizes and sinks off Virginia, USA, kills 110.
1927 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey opens
1925 US and Italy sign peace accord about war debts
1924 Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron
1923 In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power November 8
1921 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments.
1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected first baseball commissioner.
1919 Ross and Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1918 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic.
1915 Britain annexes Gilbert and Ellice archipelago
1914 Turks Sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
1912 The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
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