Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Significance of November 12 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1979  Dimitri Tiompkin, composer, dies at 85.   

1980  NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana.   

1980  US space probe Voyager I approaches 77000-mi (124000 km) of Saturn   

1980  Alexander "Alex" Nicholas Voormolen, Dutch composer, dies at 85   

1981  2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)   

1981  inaugural balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)   

1981  US space shuttle Columbia, inaugural space vehicle to make a second trip, launched   

1982  Yuri Andropov is recorded as becoming soviet leader, succeeding Mr Brezhnev.   

1982  Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader, but not for long.   

1983  4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas   

1984  In this year, Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together".   

1984  Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite inaugural space salvage.   

1985  STS 61-B vehicle moves to the launch pad.   

1985  The province of Ontario looses its Standard and Poors triple A credit rating.   

1987  Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine.   

1987  Roger Lewis, aviation exec (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75   

1989  Brazil holds inaugural free presidential election in 29 years.   

1990  Dave Willock, actor (Queen of Outer Space), dies at 81.   

1991  "Full House" 100th episode-The twins are born   

1991  Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack   

1992  Charles "Honi" Coles, tap dancer, dies of cancer at 81   

1993  Anna Stein, actress (Wedding Night), dies of heart attack at 88   

1994  Charles "Honi" Coles, dancer (1983 Tony award), dies at 81.   

1995  Canadian Chris Hadfield flys on the space shuttle as mission specialist   

1995  Curley Fox, fiddler, dies at 85.   

1996  Don Kenyon, cricketer, dies at 72.   

1997  William Matthews, poet, dies at 55   

2005  United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan makes his inaugural visit to Iraq since Gulf War II began and urges Iraqis to embrace a process aiming to reconcile all the country's ethnic and religious groups.   

2006  Gerald Ford surpasses Ronald Reagan as the longest lived President of the United States   

2006  The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.   

2011  Silvio Berlusconi steps down as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.   

2012  In this year, Into the Silence by Wade Davis claims the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize.   

2014  European Space Agency's Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.   

2017  7.3 earthquake hits near Halabjal, Iraq, on border with Iran, killing over 500 people, with 7000 injured   

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