Historical Events In November - 12

1936  1st TV Gardening show on this day in history.  

1936  On November - 12 mort Shuman, rocker  

1937  On November - 12 ina Balin, Brooklyn NY, actress (Danger in Paradise)  

1937  On November - 12 harry Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper (v WI 1928), dies  

1938  Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland on this day in history.  

1939  Jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands on November - 12.  

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

1939  On this day in history ruby Nash Curtis, US singer (Romantics-Our Day Will Come)  

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

1940  On November - 12 blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)  

1940  On this day in history ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers  

1940  Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34 on November - 12.  

1941  Germany's drive to take Moscow halted on November - 12.  

1941  On this day in history frank Rosenthal, rocker  

1941  Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, NY gangster/police informer, killed on November - 12.  

1942  On this day in history north Africa west of Algiers is subdued by Allied forces.  

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  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  RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway on November - 12.  

1944  Edgar Stillman Kelley, US composer (Gulliver), dies at 87 on November - 12.  

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 this day in history.  

1946  Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released on November - 12.  

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 this day in history emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82  

1948  On this day in history japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal  

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

1949  On November - 12 hendrik A de Fish, [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological, dies at 64  

1950  On this day in history 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 November - 12 birth of bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)  

1528  Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588) was born on November - 12.  

1547  On November - 12 birth of claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575)  

1606  Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673) was born on this day in history.  

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 November - 12.  

1676  On this day in history birth of giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer  

1729  On November - 12 birth of louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)  

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

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

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  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