November 12 in History: Historical Events, Birthdays, Deaths & Holidays

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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1493  Bartolomeo bandinelli: Italian sculptor   

1528  Qi jiguang: Chinese general   

1547  Claude of valois: French princess   

1606  Jeanne mance: French canadian settler   

1615  Richard baxter: English clergyman   

1651  Juana ines de la cruz: Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (primero sueno)   

1676  Giovanni antonio pollarolo: Composer   

1729  Louis antoine de bougainville: French explorer   

0607  Death of Boniface iii: Italian pope (607),   

1035  Canute "the great": King of the danes (1016-1035),   

1094  King duncan ii of scotland: King duncan ii of scotland (b. 1060)   

1202  Death of Knut vi: King of the denen/turn (1182-1202),   

1434  King louis iii of naples: King louis iii of naples   

1555  Stephen gardiner: English bishop of winchester,   

1558  Death of Shalom shakna ben joseph: Rabbi (founder of 1st polish yeshiva),   

1567  Anne pierre adrien duke of montmorency: Marshal of france,