Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 12

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File:Hideki Tojo.jpg|Tōjō Hideki

File:Leon trotsky.jpg|Leon Trotsky

File:Sfbaybridge at night.jpg|San Francisco-to-Oakland Bay bridge

File:KondoKirishimaNov14.jpg|Battle of Guadalcanal

File:Japanes air attack on shipping off Guadalcanal, 12 November 1942.jpg|Battle of Guadalcanal

File:Pudge heffelfinger.jpg|William Heffelfinger

File:Ladder dredge Corozal working on Cucaracha slide.jpg|The Corozal

File:Scott of the Antarctic crop.jpg|Robert Falcon Scott

Tête_de_la_statue_du_roi_Lothaire_fab_en_1140.JPG|Bust of Lothair

File:Rosetta and philae.jpg|Artist's impression of Rosetta with Philae

File:Film of the 15 September 1944 attack on the German battleship Tirpitz.webm|Bombing of Tirpitz

• 1330 – Led by the voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada.
• 1892 – William Heffelfinger was paid $500 by the Allegheny Athletic Association, becoming the first professional American football player.
• 1905 – In a referendum, 79 percent of voters opted to keep Norway a monarchy, paving the way for Haakon VII of Norway to take the throne.
• 1911 The Corozal, the most powerful dredger built to that time, was launched in London for service in construction of the Panama Canal.
• 1912 – Eight months after perishing during the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, the bodies of Robert Falcon Scott (pictured) and his companions were discovered on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
• 1928 – The British ocean liner {{SS|Vestris}} sank in the western Atlantic Ocean, killing 111 people.
• 1932 – At the request of the Government of Western Australia, the Australian military officially resumed fighting the Emu War after their prior withdrawal.
• 1940 – World War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy France.
• 1940 – World War II: Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis powers.
• 1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the decisive engagement in a series of sea battles between Allied and Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands, began.
• 1945 – Sudirman was elected the first commander-in-chief of the Indonesian Armed Forces.
• 1948 – Former Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo was sentenced to death for war crimes alongside generals Iwane Matsui, Akira Mutō and Kenji Doihara.
• 1970 – The deadliest tropical cyclone in history made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan (Bangladesh), killing at least 250,000 people.
• 1973 – The first episode of Last of the Summer Wine, the longest-running television sitcom in history, premiered on the BBC.
• 1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines {{nowrap|Boeing 747}} and a Kazakhstan Airlines {{nowrap|Ilyushin Il-76}} collided in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349 people, the deadliest such collision in history.
• 2001 – American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into residential buildings five minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, killing a total of 265 people.
• 2006 – Although the Georgian government declared it illegal, South Ossetia held a referendum on independence, with more than 99 percent of voters in favour of preserving the region's status as a de facto independent state.
• 2011 – An explosion in the Shahid Modarres missile base led to the deaths of 17 members of the Revolutionary Guards, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.
• Born/died this day: | Zhang Jing |d|1555| Peter Martyr Vermigli |d|1562| Letitia Christian Tyler|b|1790| Auguste Rodin |b|1840| Ben Travers |b|1886| William Henry Barlow |d|1902| Edward Soriano |b|1946| Ansgar Løvold |d|1961| Naomi Wolf |b|1962| Minoru Yasui|d|1986 xQc |b|1995

• Silvio Berlusconi prostitute trial appears on July 18, so Berlusconi himself should not appear in the same year
• History of American football appears on November 6, so William Heffelfinger should not appear in the same year

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November 12

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• 1944 – Second World War: In Operation Catechism, the Royal Air Force sank the German battleship Tirpitz (video featured) near Tromsø, Norway, killing about 1,000 sailors on board.
• 1956 – Suez Crisis: During an invasion of Rafah, Israeli soldiers shot and killed an estimated 111 Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants.
• 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with dynamite.
• 1991 – Indonesian forces opened fire on student demonstrators protesting the occupation of East Timor in the capital Dili, killing at least 250 people.
• 2014 – The European Space Agency's lander Philae touched down on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a comet.

{{Born and died list|Johan Rantzau |b|1492|Rachel Barrett |b|1874|Jo Stafford |b|1917|Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley |b|1926}}

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