Historical Events In November - 12

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

1936  On November - 12 mort Shuman, rocker  

1937  On this day in history 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  Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland on November - 12.  

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

1939  On November - 12 (Ernest YY) Oscar Tourniaire, actor (Bluejackets), dies at 59  

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

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

1940  On November - 12 alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34  

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

1941  Frank Rosenthal, rocker on November - 12.  

1941  On this day in history abe "Kid Twist" Reles, NY gangster/police informer, killed  

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

1942  On November - 12 in World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began  

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

1943  On November - 12 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 November - 12.  

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  On this day in history first drive-in bank window established (Chicago)  

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

1948  Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal on November - 12.  

1948  On this day in history umberto Giordano, composer, dies at 81  

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

1950  On this day in history gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards  

1951  17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL on this day in history.  

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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  Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575) was born on November - 12.  

1606  On November - 12 birth of jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)  

1615  On this day in history birth of richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)  

1651  On this day in history birth of juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primero Sueno)  

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  Boniface III, Italian Pope (607), dies on November - 12.  

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

1094  Death of King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060) on this day in history.  

1202  Knut VI, king of the Denen/Turn (1182-1202), dies at about 39 on November - 12.  

1434  On November - 12 death of king Louis III of Naples  

1555  On this day in history stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65  

1558  On this day in history shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies  

1567  Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France, dies at 74 on this day in history.