<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 2001</SPAN><SPAN class=body> American Airlines flight 587 crashes in Belle Harbor, New York, killing 265, vertical stabilizer failure </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1999</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Earthquake kills 700 in Duzce, Turkey
</SPAN>.
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1998</SPAN><SPAN class=body> New York Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1997</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1997</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1996</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1995</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 25th New York City Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06 </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1995</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 26th New York City Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00 </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1995</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Last day of Test cricket for Martin Crowe
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1995</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003 </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1995</SPAN><SPAN class=body> New York MTA raises subway and bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50 </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1995</SPAN><SPAN class=body> STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1992</SPAN><SPAN class=body> New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1991</SPAN><SPAN class=body> "Full House" 100th episode-twins are born </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1991</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1991</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1989</SPAN><SPAN class=body> "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 1018 performances
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1989</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1989</SPAN><SPAN class=body> George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in New York City </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1988</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1988</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1987</SPAN><SPAN class=body> "Teddy and Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 77 performances
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1987</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Heavy snow closes schools from Washington D.C. to Maine </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1987</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1986</SPAN><SPAN class=body> France performs nuclear test
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1986</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1985</SPAN><SPAN class=body> R. Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match vs. Australia at Brisbane </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1985</SPAN><SPAN class=body> STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1985</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1984</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1984</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Space shuttle astronauts retreive a satellite - 1st space salvage </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1983</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1983</SPAN><SPAN class=body> New Jersey Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3 </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1982</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1982</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S.S.R. KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as U.S.S.R. leader </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1982</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket vs. India, goes to 215 </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1981</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed, Double Eagle V
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1981</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2) </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1981</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Bill C. Davis' "Mass Appeal," premieres in New York City </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1981</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year for the Oakland A's </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1981</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Great Britain performs nuclear test
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1981</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1980</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1980</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S. space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1979</SPAN><SPAN class=body> President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1979</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1979</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S. halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1978</SPAN><SPAN class=body> "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 33 performances
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1978</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1977</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Ernest N. Morial elected mayor of New Orleans
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1977</SPAN><SPAN class=body> France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1977</SPAN><SPAN class=body> New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1975</SPAN><SPAN class=body> New York Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1975</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired after 36 years </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1974</SPAN><SPAN class=body> South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1973</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Dmitri Shostakovitch' 14th String Quartet premieres </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1970</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1970</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103 </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1970</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1969</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1969</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1969</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1969</SPAN><SPAN class=body> WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1968</SPAN><SPAN class=body> KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1968</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1967</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1967</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1966</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1966</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1966</SPAN><SPAN class=body> High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1965</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1965</SPAN><SPAN class=body> General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1965</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1965</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1964</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1964</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1963</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Train crash in Japan, kills 164 </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1960</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1959</SPAN><SPAN class=body> White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1958</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1956</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1955</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st West German officers sworn in </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1955</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Date returned to in "Back to the Future" and "Back to the Future II" </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1955</SPAN><SPAN class=body> E Arcaro, E Sande and G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1954</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Ellis Island, immigration station in New York Harbor, closed
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1953</SPAN><SPAN class=body> David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1953</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S. district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1952</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Philadelphia A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1952</SPAN><SPAN class=body> White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1951</SPAN><SPAN class=body> "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 289 performances
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1951</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Ala </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1950</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Gene Roberts sets NFL New York Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1948</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1947</SPAN><SPAN class=body> KPO-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1947</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1946</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago) </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1946</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1945</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1944</SPAN><SPAN class=body> RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1943</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1942</SPAN><SPAN class=body> In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1941</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1941</SPAN><SPAN class=body> WOV-AM and WNEW-AM in New York City swaps call letters </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1940</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes) </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1939</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1938</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1936</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1936</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Oakland Bay Bridge opens </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1936</SPAN><SPAN class=body> St. Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes and William O DeWitt </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1933</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal) </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1933</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate's Forbes Field, lose to Brooklyn Dodgers 32-0 </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1933</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1933</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1932</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1931</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chicago Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1 </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1931</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Sibelius/Ashton's ballet "Lady of Shalott," premieres in London
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1928</SPAN><SPAN class=body> British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110 </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1927</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey opens
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1927</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1927</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1925</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S. and Italy sign peace accord about war debts </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1924</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1923</SPAN><SPAN class=body> In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1921</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1920</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1919</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Ross and Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1918</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1915</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Britain annexes Gilbert and Ellice archipelago
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1915</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1914</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1912</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Robert Scott's diary and dead body found in Antarctica
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1910</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1906</SPAN><SPAN class=body> C W Gregory (NSW vs. Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1900</SPAN><SPAN class=body> World's Fair in Paris opens, 50 million visitors </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1899</SPAN><SPAN class=body> British troops reach Durban Natal
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1892</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1892</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1885</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Montreal and Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1873</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Bay District Race Track opens </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1859</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1823</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1813</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1775</SPAN><SPAN class=body> General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1727</SPAN><SPAN class=body> France and Bavaria renew secret treaty </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1682</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1673</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1614</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 1591</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 954</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Lotharius becomes king of France
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 607</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic Pope </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>November 12, 295</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Origin of Era of Ascension

<TABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=2 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TH><H2><SPAN class=mw-headline>On this day...</SPAN></H2></TH></TR><TR><TD>November 12: Birth of Bahá'u'lláh, a holy day in the Bahá'í Faith.

• <LI>1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe married Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII.
  
  <LI>1893 – Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, signed the Durand Line Agreement, establishing what is now the international border between Afghanistan and modern-day Pakistan. <LI>1927 – Leon Trotsky (pictured) was expelled from the Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
  <LI>1936 – The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Oakland, California across San Francisco Bay, opened to traffic. <LI>1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon with explosives, leading to the exploding whale incident. </LI>

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<LI>764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days. <LI>1028 - Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII.
<LI>1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament. <LI>1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.

<LI>1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined. <LI>1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
<LI>1893 - The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan - the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister nations. <LI>1905 - (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic. <LI>1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
<LI>1918 - Austria becomes a republic. <LI>1920 - Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo. <LI>1922 - The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. <LI>1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
<LI>1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster. <LI>1934 - Laurel and Hardy: The musical Babes in Toyland debuts, featuring Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel as comic relief.
<LI>1936 - In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic. <LI>1938 - Hermann Göring announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
<LI>1941 - World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
<LI>1941 - The Soviet cruiser "Chervona Ukraina" is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol. <LI>1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal, which would last for three days.
<LI>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 Tromsø, Norway.
<LI>1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
<LI>1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II. <LI>1969 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
<LI>1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident. <LI>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.
<LI>1979 - Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran. <LI>1980 - The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes first images of its rings.
<LI>1981 - The Space Shuttle Columbia becomes the first spacecraft to be launched twice. <LI>1982 - In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
<LI>1982 - Lech Walesa, a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months. <LI>1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
<LI>1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. <LI>1991 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
<LI>1993 - Decree of President of Kazakhstan "About introducing national currency of Republic of Kazakhstan" is issued. <LI>1993 - The first Ultimate Fighting Championship is held in Denver, Colorado.
<LI>1994 - Then Vice President Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol. <LI>1996 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349.
<LI>1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. <LI>1998 - Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.
<LI>1999 - The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale. <LI>2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
<LI>2001 - 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
<LI>2003 - Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base. <LI>2006 - The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.

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1493 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)


1528 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)

• <LI>1606 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)
  <LI>1615 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
  <LI>1651 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican mystic and author (d. 1695)
  <LI>1729 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
  
  
  
  
  <LI>1755 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (d. 1813)
  <LI>1795 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (d. 1856)
  
  i am not sure why they are laughing. does anyone know why? <LI>1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)
  <LI>1817 - Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet Founder of the Baha'i Faith (d. 1892)
  <LI>1833 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (d. 1887)
  <LI>1840 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
  <LI>1842 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
  <LI>1848 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)
  <LI>1850 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
  <LI>1866 - Sun Yat-sen, 1st President of the Republic of China (d. 1925)
  <LI>1881 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
  <LI>1886 - Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
  <LI>1889 - DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (d. 1981)
  <LI>1896 - Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
  <LI>1898 - Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)
  <LI>1903 - Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
  
  friends of hya's? <LI>1908 - Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1999) +
  <LI>1908 - Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (d. 1946)
  <LI>1911 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
  <LI>1915 - Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (d. 1980) <LI>1916 - Jean Papineau-Couture, French Canadian composer (d. 2000)
  <LI>1916 - Paul Emery, British racing driver (d. 1993) <LI>1917 - Jo Stafford, American singer
  
  Lenny in da club in 20 years
  <LI>1920 - Richard Quine, American actor (d. 1989)
  <LI>1922 - Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002) <LI>1923 - Vicco von Bülow, German film director
  <LI>1927 - Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
  <LI>1929 - Michael Ende, German writer (d. 1995)
  <LI>1929 - Princess Grace of Monaco (d. 1982)
  <LI>1930 - Ann Flood, American actress
  <LI>1931 - Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer (The Four Seasons)
  <LI>1934 - Charles Manson, American cult leader
  <LI>1936 - Mills Lane, American judge and boxing referee
  <LI>1936 - Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
  </LI>

1938 - Denis DeJordy, Canadian ice hockey player

• <LI>1939 - Ruby Nash Curtis, American singer (Ruby & the Romantics)
  <LI>1939 - Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
  <LI>1940 - Michel Audet, Québécois economist and politician
  <LI>1940 - Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician
  <LI>1943 - Brian Hyland, American singer
  <LI>1943 - Wallace Shawn, American actor and playwright
  </LI>

1944 - Booker T. Jones, American musician and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's)

• <LI>1944 - Al Michaels, American television sportscaster <LI>1945 - Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author
  <LI>1945 - Neil Young, Canadian singer and musician <LI>1947 - Ron Bryant, American baseball player
  
  oh my she is goreous <LI>1947 - Patrice Leconte, French film director and screenwriter <LI>1948 - Cliff Harris, American football player
  <LI>1949 - Ron Lapointe, French Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 1992) <LI>1953 - Vasilis Karras, Greek singer
  <LI>1958 - Megan Mullally, American actress <LI>1960 - Maurane, Belgian singer +
  <LI>1961 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast <LI>1961 - Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer <LI>1961 - Michaela Paetsch, American violinist
  <LI>1962 - Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist <LI>1962 - Mark Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player <LI>1962 - Brix Smith, American musician and songwriter (The Fall, The Adult Net)
  <LI>1962 - Mariella Frostrup, Norwegian born journalist and television presenter <LI>1964 - David Ellefson, American musician (Megadeth) <LI>1965 - Lex Lang, American voice actor <LI>1967 - Michael Moorer, American boxer
  <LI>1967 - Grant Nicholas, British singer (Feeder) <LI>1968 - Glenn Gilberti, American professional wrestler
  <LI>1968 - Sammy Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball player <LI>1968 - Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride) <LI>1969 - Ian Bremmer, American political scientist
  <LI>1969 - Johnny Gosch, American kidnap victim <LI>1969 - Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter
  <LI>1970 - Donna Adamo, American female professional wrestler <LI>1970 - Tonya Harding, American figure skater <LI>1970 - Craig Parker, New Zealand actor
  <LI>1970 - Harvey Stephens, British child actor <LI>1972 - Vassilis Tsiartas, Greek footballer <LI>1973 - Mayte Garcia, American dancer
  <LI>1973 - Radha Mitchell, Australian actress <LI>1973 - Tara Strong, Canadian voice actress
  <LI>1974 - Tamala Jones, American actress <LI>1975 - Nina Brosh, Israeli model and actress
  <LI>1975 - Angela Watson, American actress <LI>1976 - Tevin Campbell, American R&B musician
  
  <LI>1976 - Judith Holofernes, German singer (Wir sind Helden) <LI>1976 - Miroslaw Szymkowiak, Polish footballer <LI>1977 - Dalene Kurtis, American Playboy model
  <LI>1977 - Benni McCarthy, South African footballer <LI>1978 - Andrew Kinlochan, English singer and musician <LI>1978 - Ashley Williams, American actress
  <LI>1979 - Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler
  <LI>1979 - Corey Maggette, American profesional basketball player <LI>1979 - Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
  <LI>1980 - Trent Acid, American professional wrestler <LI>1980 - Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor <LI>1981 - DJ Campbell, English football player
  
  how bout them Cowboys!!?! <LI>1982 - Anne Hathaway, American actress <LI>1984 - Omarion, American R&B musician
  <LI>1984 - Sandara Park, South Korean actor <LI>1984 - Natalia Tena, English actress <LI>1986 - Evan Yo, Taiwanese pop singer
  </LI>

1987 - Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player

<SPAN class=mw-headline>Deaths</SPAN>

• <LI>607 - Pope Boniface III
  <LI>1035 - Canute the Great <LI>1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060) <LI>1434 - King Louis III of Naples
  
  <LI>1555 - Stephen Gardiner, English statesman <LI>1567 - Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (b. 1493) <LI>1595 - John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532) <LI>1667 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598)
  <LI>1671 - Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (b. 1612) <LI>1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660) <LI>1757 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
  <LI>1836 - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773) <LI>1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
  <LI>1916 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)
  <LI>1939 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890) <LI>1941 - Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, American mobster (b. 1907) <LI>1944 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
  <LI>1948 - Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867) <LI>1955 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
  <LI>1965 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
  <LI>1972 - Rudolf Friml, Czech composer of operettas (b. 1879) <LI>1976 - Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894) <LI>1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918) +
  <LI>1984 - Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909) <LI>1990 - Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
  <LI>1993 - H. R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926) <LI>1994 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
  <LI>1997 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
  <LI>2000 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928) <LI>2000 - Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913) <LI>2001 - Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
  <LI>2003 - Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986) <LI>2003 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
  <LI>2003 - Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908) <LI>2003 - Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954) <LI>2003 - Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
  <LI>2005 - William G. Adams, former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. (b. 1923)
  </LI>

2006 - General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909)

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=468 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=2>On this date in:

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1815</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, N.Y.


</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1920</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected baseball's first commissioner.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1927</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist party.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1942</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>The World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1948</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1954</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1982</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1985</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Xavier Suarez was elected Miami's first Cuban-American mayor.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1987</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>The American Medical Association issued a policy statement saying it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person has AIDS or is HIV-positive.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1990</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1996</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>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 Jenny Jones Show."

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1997</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1999</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>2001</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>An American Airlines flight crashed near New York's Kennedy airport, killing 265 people.


</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>2004</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>A jury in Redwood City, Calif., convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay. (Peterson was later sentenced to death.)

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>2006</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Gerald R. Ford surpassed Ronald Reagan as the longest-lived U.S. president at 93 years and 121 days. (Ford died the following month.)</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

1799 - Andrew Ellicott Douglass witnesses the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys.

1815 - American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, NY.

1840 - Sculptor Auguste Rodin was born in Paris. His most widely known works are "The Kiss" and "The Thinker."

1859 - The first flying trapeze act was performed by Jules Leotard at Cirque Napoleon in Paris, France. He was also the designer of the garment that is named after him.

1892 - William "Pudge" Heffelfinger became the first professional football player when he was paid a $500 bonus for helping the Allegheny Athletic Association beat the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.

1915 - Theodore W. Richards, of Harvard University, became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

1918 - Austria was declared an independent republic only one day after the end of World War I.

1920 - Judge Keneshaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of the American and National Leagues.

1921 - Representatives of nine nations gathered for the start of the Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments.

1927 - Joseph Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist party leading to Stalin coming to power.

1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opened in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was to be the new home of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League (NHL).

1933 - In Philadelphia, the first Sunday football game was played.

1940 - Walt Disney released "Fantasia."

1942 - During World War II, naval battle of Guadalcanal began between Japanese and American forces. The Americans won a major victory.

1944 - During World War II, the German battleship "Tirpitz" was sunk off the coast of Norway.

1946 - The first drive-up banking facility opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, IL.

1948 - The war crimes tribunal sentenced Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese leaders to death.

1953 - The National Football League (NFL) policy of blacking out home games was upheld by Judge Allan K. Grim of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.

1954 - Ellis Island, the immigration station in New York Harbor, closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since 1892.

1964 - Paula Murphy set the female land speed record 226.37 MPH.

1972 - Don Shula, coach of the Miami Dolphins, became the first NFL head coach to win 100 regular season games in 10 seasons.

1975 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired because of failing health, ending a record 36½-year term.<!y2000>

1979 - U.S. President Carter ordered a halt to all oil imports from Iran in response to 63 Americans being taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran on November 4.<!my1982>

1980 - The U.S. space probe Voyager I came within 77,000 miles of Saturn while transmitting data back to Earth.

1982 - Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.

1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Dale Gardner and Joe Allen snared the Palapa B-2 satellite in history's first space salvage.

1985 - In Norfolk, VA, Arthur James Walker was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a spy ring run by his brother, John A. Walker Jr.

1987 - The American Medical Association issued a policy statement that said it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person had AIDS or was HIV-positive.

1990 - Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne.

1991 - In the U.S., Robert Gates was sworn in as CIA director.

1995 - The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.

1997 - Four Americans and their Pakistani driver were shot to death in Karachi, Pakistan. The Americans were oil company employees.

1997 - The UN Security Council imposed new sanctions on Iraq for constraints being placed on UN arms inspectors.

1997 - Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

1998 - Daimler-Benz completed a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler AG.<!Y2000>

2001 - American Airlines flight 587 crashed just minutes after take off from Kennedy Airport in New York. The Airbus A300 crashed into the Rockaway Beach section of Queens. All 260 people aboard were killed.<!ap>

2001 - It was reported that the Northern Alliance had taken the Kabul, Afghanistan, from the ruling Taliban. The Norther Alliance at this point was reported to have control over most of the northern areas of Afghanistan.<!ap>

2002 - Stan Lee filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment Inc. that claimed the company had cheated him out of millions of dollars in movie profits related to the 2002 movie "Spider-Man." Lee was the creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and Daredevil.<!a>

My fav is the tattooed black girl with the christmas background. Her ass is ridiculous.