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Today In History - November 12th
« on: November 12, 2014, 07:52:53 AM »
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A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.

 

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.

Source: http://www.ereporter.com.ng/index.php/more-news/today-in-history/item/1259-today-in-history-november-12th


 

 

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