Today in History
November 12
| 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. | |
| 1990 | Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan. | |
| 1990 | Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, publishes a formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web. | |
| 1996 | A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collides with a Kazakh Illyushin II-76 cargo plane near New Delhi, killing 349. It is the deadliest mid-air collision to date (2013) and third-deadliest aircraft accident. | |
| 1997 | Ramzi Yousef convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. | |
| 2003 | The first Italians to die in the Iraq War are among 23 fatalities from a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base in Nasiriya, iraq. | |
| 2003 | Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (311 mph or 501 kph) for commercial railway systems. | |
2015 Ebony Lyall graduates from University of Strathclyde. Ebony now holds a Masters Degree in Forensic Science.
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). | |
| 1945 | Neil Young, singer, songwriter, musician, producer; member of several well-known bands including Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. | |
| 1952 | Ronald Burkle, business magnate; founded Yucaipa Companies private investment firm and is co-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins pro hockey team. | |
| 1957 | Tim Samaras, engineer and storm chaser who contributed to scientific knowledge of tornadoes; killed along with his son Paul and meteorologist Carl Young by a tornado with winds of nearly 300 mph near El Reno, Okla,, in 2013. | |
| 1961 | Nadia Comaneci, Olympic gold medal-winning Romanian gymnast; named one of the athletes of the century by Laureus World Sports Academy (2000). | |
| 1962 | Naomi Wolf, activist, author of The Beauty Myth; a leader in what has been described as the third wave of the feminist movement. | |
| 1968 | Sammy Sosa, pro baseball player from Dominican Republic; only MLB player to hit 60 or more home runs in a single season three times, he was denied entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013 after as-yet unproven allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs. | |
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