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

1939  On November - 12 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 November - 12.  

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

1940  On November - 12 ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers  

1940  On this day in history alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34  

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

1941  Frank Rosenthal, rocker on November - 12.  

1941  On November - 12 abe "Kid Twist" Reles, NY gangster/police informer, killed  

1942  North Africa west of Algiers is subdued by Allied forces on November - 12.  

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

1943  On this day in history 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 November - 12 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  On this day in history canadian rock musician Neil Young is born  

1945  Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) on November - 12.  

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

1946  On this day in history walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released  

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

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

1947  On November - 12 emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82  

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

1948  On November - 12 umberto Giordano, composer, dies at 81  

1949  Hendrik A de Fish, [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological, dies at 64 on November - 12.  

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  On this day in history birth of bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)  

1528  Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588) was born on this day in history.  

1547  On this day in history birth of claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575)  

1606  Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673) was born on November - 12.  

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 this day in history.  

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  Canute "The Great", King of the Danes (1016-1035), dies at 41 on November - 12.  

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

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

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

1555  Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65 on November - 12.  

1558  On this day in history 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