Today in History
November 12
1035King 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.
1859The 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.
1867Mount Vesuvius erupts.
1903The 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.
1928The ocean liner Vestris sinks off the Virginia cape with 328 aboard, killing 111.
1938Mexico agrees to compensate the United States for land seizures.
1941Madame 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.
1960The satellite Discoverer XVII is launched into orbit from California's Vandenberg AFB.
1968The U.S. Supreme Court voids an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools.
1971President Richard Nixon announces the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by February.
1987Boris Yeltsin is fired as head of Moscow's Communist Party for criticizing the slow pace of reform.




Born on November 12
1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, political reformer and founder of the Women's Rights Convention.
1817Mirza Hoseyn 'Ali Nuri (Baha' Ullah), founder of the Baha'i faith.
1840Auguste Rodin, French sculptor.
1866Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary who founded the Nationalist Party.
1889DeWitt Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest.
1911Buck Clayton, jazz trumpeter.
1922Charlotte MacLeod, mystery writer (Rest You Merry, Maid of Honor).
1929Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco.
1945Tracy Kidder, writer (Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends).

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