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Today in History ~ November 12
Events0954 - Lotharius becomes king of France
1775 - General Washington forbids enlisting blacks
1799 - The first North American meteor shower on record took place. Early American astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass said, "The whole heaven appeared as if illuminated with sky rockets."
1833 - A firestorm of shooting stars was observed.
1859 - Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) [H]
1861 - Blockade Runner Fingal, bought by Confederates in England, arrives in Savannah, Georgia
1864 - William Tecumseh Sherman's Federal troops burn the City of Atlanta, Georgia
1892 - The first professional football game was played in Pittsburgh, between the Allegheny Athletic Association and the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
1900 - World's Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors)
1910 - 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1912 - Robert Scott's diary & dead body found in Antarctica
1918 - Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
1920 - Baseball got its first "czar" as Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis was elected commissioner of the American and National leagues.
1921 - Representatives of nine nations gathered for the start of the Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments.
1923 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to seize power Nov 8
1927 - Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1927 - Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.
1928 - British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110
1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opened in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as the new home of the Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.
1931 - Sibelius/Ashton ballet "Lady of Shalott," premieres in London
1933 - Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
1936 - Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill
1936 - Oakland Bay Bridge opens
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 - German army's drive to take Moscow was halted on the city's outskirts in World War II.
1942 - The World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. (The Americans ended up winning a major victory over the Japanese.)
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) opens (Chicago)
1946 - Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
1948 -A war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese leaders to die by hanging. [H]
1951 - "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances
1953 - David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel
1953 - US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1954 - Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892.
1956 - Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1960 - Coup against South Vietnam president Ngo Dinh Diem fails
1965 - Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
1968 - Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional
1969 - Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1969 - US army announces investigation of Lt William Calley for massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March 16, 1968.
1970 - 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
1970 - Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
1971 - Arches National Park was established.
1974 - South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
1975 - Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retires after 36 years
1979 - President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil and freezes Iranian assets in US
1980 - NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1980 - The Voyager-1 spacecraft passed Saturn.
1981 - 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1981 - The shuttle Columbia became the first spacecraft ever launched twice from Earth.
1982 - Former KGB chief Yuri Andropov swas elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
1982 - Polish authorities freed Solidarity founder Lech Walesa after 11 months of internment.
1987 - Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
1989 - "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances
1990 - Berners-Lee proposes World Wide Web [H]
1990 - Akihito was crowned the 125th emperor of Japan, formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne.
1991 - Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die
1991 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev told a news conference he'd been warned by President George H.W. Bush and other U.S. officials that a revolt was brewing before hard-liners staged their coup, but that he had discounted their information.
1991 - About 50 people were killed when Indonesian troops opened fire on protesters in the province of East Timor.
1992 - Volker Keith Meinhold became the first openly gay person on active duty in the American military when, armed with a court order, he reported to work at Moffett Naval Air Station in Mountain View, Calif., for reinstatement as a chief petty officer.
1993 - Pop star Michael Jackson, hounded by allegations that he had molested a teenage boy, canceled the rest of his worldwide "Dangerous" tour, citing an addiction to painkillers.
1995 - Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003
1996 - A Saudi Boeing 747 jetliner collided shortly after takeoff from New Delhi, India, with a Kazak Ilyushin-76 cargo plane, killing 349 people.
1996 - In Pontiac, Mich., Jonathan Schmitz was convicted of second-degree murder for shooting Scott Amedure, a gay man who'd revealed a crush on Schmitz during a taping of the "The Jenny Jones Show." (Schmitz was sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison.)
1996 - Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, two days before his death, joined a friend-of-court brief petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to reject assisted suicide.
1997 - Two defendants, Ramzi Ahmed and Eyad Ismoil, were convicted of involvement in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York. Four other men had been convicted in 1994.
2000 - On the eve of a federal court hearing on the Florida presidential election, advocates for George W. Bush and Al Gore previewed their legal strategies, with Democrats justifying painstaking recounts and Republicans saying the practice could result in political "mischief" and human error.
2001 - An American Airlines Airbus crashed shortly after takeoff from JFK Airport in New York. More than 260 people died in the crash.
2002 - A new tape surfaced from suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in which he warned U.S. allies to be ready for the consequences of supporting Washington against his al-Qaida network.
Birthdays Today
1755 - Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussia milt/minister of War (1807-10)
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, suffragist (80 Years & More)
1817 - Bah 'u'll h (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Baha'i faith
1833 - Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer (Prince Igor)
1840 - Auguste Rodin, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker)
1866 - Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional)
1889 - DeWitt Wallace, St Paul Minn, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921)
1903 - Jack Oakie (Lewis Offield) (actor: Lover Come Back, The Rat Race, Song of the Islands, Tin Pan Alley, The Texas Rangers)
1908 - Harry Blackmun (Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1970]: wrote the majority opinion in Roe vs. Wade)
1917 - Joseph Coors, CEO (Adolph Coors Co Brewery)
1920 - Jo Stafford (singer: Shrimp Boats [Are A-Comin', There's Dancin' Tonight], Jambalaya, Long Ago and Far Away, No Other Love, Candy, You Belong to Me, Make Love to Me; group: Pied Pipers: Dream)
1920 - Richard Quine (actor: Babes on Broadway, For Me and My Gal, director: The World of Suzy Wong, Bell Book and Candle, Hour to Murder Your Wife, Sex and the Single Girl)
1922 - Kim Hunter (Janet Cole) (Academy Award-winning actress: A Streetcar Named Desire [1951]; Requiem for a Heavyweight, Planet of the Apes series, The Edge of Night, Backstairs at the White House)
1922 - Sunset Carson (Michael Harrison) (actor: Stage Door Canteen, Rio Grande Raiders, Alias Billy the Kid)
1926 - George Ratterman (football)
1929 - Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco) (Academy Award-winning actress: The Country Girl [1954]; To Catch a Thief, High Society, High Noon, Rear Window, Dial "M" for Murder; singer: True Love [w/Bing Crosby])
1930 - Ann Flood (actress: The Edge of Night)
1931 - Bob Crewe (producer: The Four Seasons, Mitch Ryder)
1934 - Charles Manson, [No Name Maddox], Cin Oh, mass murderer
1939 - Lucia Popp, Uhorsk Ves Czechoslovakia, soprano (Die Zauberflote)
1943 - Brian Hyland (singer: Sealed with a Kiss, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini, Let Me Belong to You)
1944 - Al Michaels (sportscaster: Monday Night Football)
1944 - Booker T. Jones (musician: group: Booker T and the MG's: Green Onions, Time is Tight)
1944 - Ken Houston (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Houston Oilers safety: NFL Individual Season Record holder: 4 interceptions returned for touchdowns [1971])
1945 - John Schroeder (golfer)
1945 - Neil Young (singer, songwriter, musician: Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Heart of Gold, Philadelphia; group: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: LP: Deja Vu; Buffalo Springfield: For What It's Worth)
1948 - Cliff Harris (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Dallas Cowboys safety: Super Bowl: V, VI, X, XII, XIII)
1950 - Barbara Fairchild (singer: The Teddy Bear Song, Kid Stuff)
1952 - Steve Bartkowski (football: 1975 NFC Rookie of the Year)
1961 - Nadia Comaneci (Olympic Gold Medalist: gymnastics [1976]: 7 perfect 10s)
1968 - Sammy Sosa, Dom Rep, baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
Famous deaths
1035 - Canute, "The Great," Viking king of Engl/Den/Nor (1014-35), dies at 39
1595 - John Hawkins, English navigator/treasurer of the Navy, dies at 63
1793 - Jean-Sylvain Bailley, French astronomer/mayor of Paris, guillotined at 53
1947 - Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82
1948 - Umberto Giordano, composer (Andrea Chenier), dies at 81
1972 - Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite), dies at 92
1979 - Dimitri Tiompkin, composer, dies at 85
1990 - Eve Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82
2000 - Leah Rabin, an outspoken campaigner for Mideast peace following the 1995 assassination of her husband, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, died at age 72.
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