Events & Holidays In November - 12

Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday (Taiwan)

National Memorial Day (Liberia)

Santa Cruz Massacre (East Timor)

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  On this day in history birth of claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575)  

1606  On this day in history birth of jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)  

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

1651  Juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primero Sueno) was born on this day in history.  

1676  Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer was born on this day in history.  

1729  On this day in history birth of louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)  

0607  Boniface III, Italian Pope (607), dies on this day in history.  

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

1094  On this day in history death of king Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)  

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

1434  On this day in history death of king Louis III of Naples  

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

1558  On this day in history shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies  

1567  Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France, dies at 74 on this day in history.