Top Historical Events That Happened on November 12

1790  Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler   

1793  Jean Sylvain Bailly, the inaugural Mayor of Paris, is guillotined   

1802  Charles van Poucke, Flemish sculptor, dies at 62   

1813  Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth   

1815  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, suffragist (80 Years and More)   

1817  Carlo Pedrotti, composer.   

1823  Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens   

1823  Emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer, dies at 75   

1827  Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer.   

1831  Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist.   

1833  Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable)   

1840  Auguste Rodin, French sculptor is born   

1840  Auguste Rodin, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker).   

1841  John W Rayleigh, England, physicist (Nobel 1904)/Cambridge (1908-14)   

1844  Octave Fouque, composer   

1847  Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the inaugural to use chloroform as an anaesthetic   

1852  Georg Hellmesberger, composer, dies at 22.   

1853  Oskar Panizza, writer.   

1858  Alexis Contant, composer.   

1859  Jules Leotard performs inaugural Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris). He also designed the garment that bears his name   

1859  Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name.   

1865  Frans L M "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas)   

1866  Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC) (traditional).   

1867  Mt. Vesuvius erupts.   

1869  Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies   

1873  Bay District Race Track opens   

1880  Mines explosion at Stellerton Nova Scotia in the Foord Pit results in the deaths of 50   

1885  Montreal and Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game   

1886  L G Kortenhorst, politician   

1889  DeWitt Wallace, St Paul Minn, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921)   

1892  Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pittsburgh Athletic Club, 4-0 in football   

1892  Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, is recorded as becoming inaugural pro football player.   

1892  Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, is recorded as becoming 1st pro football player.   

1893  The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan.   

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1493  Bartolomeo bandinelli: Italian sculptor   

1528  Qi jiguang: Chinese general   

1547  Claude of valois: French princess   

1606  Jeanne mance: French canadian settler   

1615  Richard baxter: English clergyman   

1651  Juana ines de la cruz: Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (primero sueno)   

1676  Giovanni antonio pollarolo: Composer   

1729  Louis antoine de bougainville: French explorer   

0607  Death of Boniface iii: Italian pope (607),   

1035  Death of Canute "the great": King of the danes (1016-1035),   

1094  King duncan ii of scotland: King duncan ii of scotland (b. 1060)   

1202  Knut vi: King of the denen/turn (1182-1202),   

1434  King louis iii of naples: King louis iii of naples   

1555  Death of Stephen gardiner: English bishop of winchester,   

1558  Death of Shalom shakna ben joseph: Rabbi (founder of 1st polish yeshiva),   

1567  Anne pierre adrien duke of montmorency: Marshal of france,