Historical Events In November - 12

1936  1st TV Gardening show on November - 12.  

1936  On November - 12 mort Shuman, rocker  

1937  Ina Balin, Brooklyn NY, actress (Danger in Paradise) on November - 12.  

1937  On this day in history harry Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper (v WI 1928), dies  

1938  On this day in history hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland  

1939  Jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands on this day in history.  

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

1939  Ruby Nash Curtis, US singer (Romantics-Our Day Will Come) on November - 12.  

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

1940  Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes) on this day in history.  

1940  Ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers on this day in history.  

1940  Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34 on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1942  On this day in history in World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began  

1943  On November - 12 landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands  

1943  On this day in history 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  RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway on this day in history.  

1944  On November - 12 edgar Stillman Kelley, US composer (Gulliver), dies at 87  

1945  Canadian rock musician Neil Young is born on November - 12.  

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

1946  On November - 12 first drive-in bank window established (Chicago)  

1946  Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released on this day in history.  

1946  On November - 12 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  On this day in history emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82  

1948  On November - 12 japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal  

1948  On November - 12 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 November - 12 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 this day in history birth of jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)  

1615  Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691) was born on this day in history.  

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 November - 12.  

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

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

1035  On November - 12 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  On this day in history knut VI, king of the Denen/Turn (1182-1202), dies at about 39  

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

1555  On November - 12 stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65  

1558  Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies on this day in history.  

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