Page 5: Historical Events In November - 12
Wednesday, 20 August 2025
1936 On November - 12 1st TV Gardening show
1936 Mort Shuman, rocker on this day in history.
1937 Ina Balin, Brooklyn NY, actress (Danger in Paradise) on this day in history.
1937 Harry Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper (v WI 1928), dies on this day in history.
1938 On November - 12 hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
1939 On this day in history jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands
1939 Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David on November - 12.
1939 Ruby Nash Curtis, US singer (Romantics-Our Day Will Come) on this day in history.
1939 (Ernest YY) Oscar Tourniaire, actor (Bluejackets), dies at 59 on November - 12.
1940 On this day in history blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
1940 Ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers on this day in history.
1940 Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34 on November - 12.
1941 On November - 12 germany's drive to take Moscow halted
1941 On this day in history frank Rosenthal, rocker
1941 On this day in history abe "Kid Twist" Reles, NY gangster/police informer, killed
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 On November - 12 landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
1943 Brian Hyland, Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini) on this day in history.
1944 The German battleship Tirpitz is sunk off the Norwegian coast on November - 12.
1944 On November - 12 rAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway
1944 On November - 12 edgar Stillman Kelley, US composer (Gulliver), dies at 87
1945 Canadian rock musician Neil Young is born on this day in history.
1945 On this day in history nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
1946 On this day in history first drive-in bank window established (Chicago)
1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released on this day in history.
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 On this day in history japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1948 Umberto Giordano, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.
1949 Hendrik A de Fish, [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological, dies at 64 on this day in history.
1950 Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards on November - 12.
1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL on November - 12.
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