Historical Events In November - 12

1936  1st TV Gardening show on November - 12.   

1936  On November - 12 mort Shuman, rocker   

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

1937  On this day in history 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  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 this day in history.   

1939  Ruby Nash Curtis, US singer (Romantics-Our Day Will Come) on this day in history.   

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

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

1941  On this day in history germany's drive to take Moscow halted   

1941  On this day in history frank Rosenthal, rocker   

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

1942  On November - 12 north Africa west of Algiers is subdued by Allied forces.   

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

1943  Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands on November - 12.   

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 this day in history.   

1944  RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway on November - 12.   

1944  On this day in history edgar Stillman Kelley, US composer (Gulliver), dies at 87   

1945  Canadian rock musician Neil Young is born on November - 12.   

1945  Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) on this day in history.   

1946  On November - 12 first drive-in bank window established (Chicago)   

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  On this day in history kPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)   

1947  On this day in history emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82   

1948  On November - 12 japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal   

1948  Umberto Giordano, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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

1950  Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards on November - 12.   

1951  17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL on November - 12.   

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1493  On this day in history birth of bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)   

1528  On November - 12 birth of qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)   

1547  Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575) was born on November - 12.   

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

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

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 November - 12.   

1729  Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811) was born on November - 12.   

0607  Boniface III, Italian Pope (607), dies on November - 12.   

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

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

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 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 November - 12.