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| Birthday November 12, 1790 Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler |
| Birthday November 12, 1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown, NY, suffragist |
| Birthday November 12, 1817 Baha'Ullah (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Bah '¡ faith |
| Birthday November 12, 1833 Aleksandr Borodin, Russian composer |
| Birthday November 12, 1840 Auguste Rodin, sculptor (Kiss) |
| Birthday November 12, 1866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC) |
| Birthday November 12, 1889 DeWitt Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest, is born |
| Birthday November 12, 1908 Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court justice |
| Birthday November 12, 1912 Alphonse (Tuffy) Leemans, NFL fullback (NY Giants) |
| Birthday November 12, 1922 Kim Hunter, Actress |
| Birthday November 12, 1929 Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco in Phila |
| Birthday November 12, 1937 Ina Ballin |
| Birthday November 12, 1937 Richard H. Truly, U.S. astronaut (STS-2, 8) |
| Birthday November 12, 1942 Stefanie Powers, in Hollywood Cal (Hart to Hart) |
| Birthday November 12, 1945 Neil Young, Canadian singer, songwriter |
| Birthday November 12, 1961 Nadia Comaneci, in Romania, Olympic gymnast |
| Birthday November 12, 1996 High school sweethearts murder their newborn child |
| History November 12, 1775 Abigail Adams leads rhetorical charge against Britain |
| History November 12, 1799 First meteor shower on record |
| History November 12, 1864 The destruction of Atlanta begins |
| History November 12, 1867 U.S. reconsiders war with Plains Indians |
| History November 12, 1873 Bay District Race Track opens |
| History November 12, 1892 Pudge Heffelfinger becomes first pro football player |
| History November 12, 1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500 becomes 1st pro football player |
| History November 12, 1918 Allied fleet enters Dardanelles |
| History November 12, 1918 Austria becomes a republic |
| History November 12, 1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner |
| History November 12, 1921 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments |
| History November 12, 1927 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator |
| History November 12, 1933 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal) |
| History November 12, 1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken |
| History November 12, 1936 1st TV Gardening show |
| History November 12, 1936 Oakland Bay Bridge opens |
| History November 12, 1944 German battleship Tirpitz was sunk off Norway |
| History November 12, 1944 Brits sink the battleship Tirpit |
| History November 12, 1946 1st "autobank" (banking by car) established (Chic) |
| History November 12, 1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released |
| History November 12, 1948 Japanese war criminals sentenced |
| History November 12, 1948 Japanese premier Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal |
| History November 12, 1954 Ellis Island immigration station in NY Harbor closed |
| History November 12, 1965 Goldenrod sets the land-speed record |
| History November 12, 1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus |
| History November 12, 1969 Seymour Hersh breaks My Lai story |
| History November 12, 1971 Nixon sets new deadline for next troop withdrawal |
| History November 12, 1975 Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years |
| History November 12, 1977 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor Ernest `Dutch' Morial |
| History November 12, 1979 Carter shuts down oil imports from Iran |
| History November 12, 1980 Voyager I flies near Saturn |
| History November 12, 1980 US space probe Voyager I approaches 77 000 miles of Saturn |
| History November 12, 1981 1st time a spacecraft is launched twice (space shuttle Columbia) |
| History November 12, 1981 1st balloon crossing of Pacific completed (Double Eagle V) |
| History November 12, 1981 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's) |
| History November 12, 1981 2nd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 2 is launched |
| History November 12, 1981 William Holden, star of Sunset Boulevard and Network, dies |
| History November 12, 1982 Yuri Andropov assumes power in the Soviet Union |
| History November 12, 1982 Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev |
| History November 12, 1983 NJ Devils' 1st overtime game lose 4-3 to Flames |
| History November 12, 1984 Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage |
| History November 12, 1987 Van Gogh's `Irises' sells for $53 900 000 - Rec amount for a painting |
| History November 12, 1990 Akihito enthroned as emperor of Japan |
| History November 12, 2001 Plane crashes in Rockaway, New York |
| History November 12, 2003 Toby Keith has his third straight #1 country album with Shock'n Y'all |
| History November 12, 2004 Scott Peterson convicted |