Historical Events In November - 12

1936  1st TV Gardening show on this day in history.   

1936  Mort Shuman, rocker on November - 12.   

1937  On November - 12 ina Balin, Brooklyn NY, actress (Danger in Paradise)   

1937  On November - 12 harry Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper (v WI 1928), dies   

1938  On November - 12 hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland   

1939  Jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands on November - 12.   

1939  On this day in history jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David   

1939  On November - 12 ruby Nash Curtis, US singer (Romantics-Our Day Will Come)   

1939  (Ernest YY) Oscar Tourniaire, actor (Bluejackets), dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1940  On November - 12 blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)   

1940  Ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers on November - 12.   

1940  Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34 on November - 12.   

1941  On November - 12 germany's drive to take Moscow halted   

1941  Frank Rosenthal, rocker on this day in history.   

1941  Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, NY gangster/police informer, killed on November - 12.   

1942  North Africa west of Algiers is subdued by Allied forces on this day in history.   

1942  In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began on November - 12.   

1943  Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands on November - 12.   

1943  On November - 12 brian Hyland, Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini)   

1944  On this day in history the German battleship Tirpitz is sunk off the Norwegian coast.   

1944  On this day in history rAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway   

1944  On this day in history edgar Stillman Kelley, US composer (Gulliver), dies at 87   

1945  On November - 12 canadian rock musician Neil Young is born   

1945  On November - 12 nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)   

1946  First drive-in bank window established (Chicago) on November - 12.   

1946  Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released on November - 12.   

1946  On this day in history 1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago)   

1947  KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR) on November - 12.   

1947  Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82 on November - 12.   

1948  Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal on this day in history.   

1948  On this day in history umberto Giordano, composer, dies at 81   

1949  On this day in history hendrik A de Fish, [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological, dies at 64   

1950  On November - 12 gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards   

1951  On this day in history 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL   

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1493  Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560) was born on this day in history.   

1528  On this day in history birth of qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)   

1547  Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575) was born on this day in history.   

1606  On November - 12 birth of jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)   

1615  On this day in history birth of richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)   

1651  On November - 12 birth of juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primero Sueno)   

1676  On November - 12 birth of giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer   

1729  Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811) was born on this day in history.   

0607  On November - 12 boniface III, Italian Pope (607), dies   

1035  On this day in history canute "The Great", King of the Danes (1016-1035), dies at 41   

1094  Death of King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060) on November - 12.   

1202  Knut VI, king of the Denen/Turn (1182-1202), dies at about 39 on this day in history.   

1434  Death of King Louis III of Naples on this day in history.   

1555  On this day in history stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65   

1558  On November - 12 shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies   

1567  On this day in history anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France, dies at 74