November 12 in History – What happened on 12 November in Past
✅ Published on November 12th, 2019 in November in History 12 November - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on November 12, the day number in a year is 316 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 317. November 12 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
November 12 in History - Top Historical Events ⚡
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1028 | Future Byzantine empress Zoe first took the throne as empressconsort to Romanos III Argyros. |
| 1330 | Led by voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated theHungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada. |
| 1727 | France and Bavaria re-signed the secret treaty. |
| 1781 | The British captured the Dutch colony Nagapattanam. |
| 1823 | The Great North Holland Canal opened in Amsterdam. |
| 1828 | Ainowang, the ruler of the Vientiane kingdom, was named and the state was annexed by Siam. During the war, the city of Vientiane was destroyed by Siamese forces. |
| 1841 | The city of Texas was founded by John Nellie Bryan. |
| 1847 | British physician Sir James Young Simpson used chloroform for the first time as an anesthetic. |
| 1847 | Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, was the first physician to use chloroform as an anesthetic. |
| 1870 | The German company Dresdner Bank was founded. |
| 1892 | William Heffelfinger was paid $525 by the Allegheny AthleticAssociation, becoming the first professional American football player onrecord. |
| 1893 | Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and AbdurRahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, signed the Durand Line Agreement,establishing what is now the international border between Afghanistanand Pakistan. |
| 1896 | Famous ornithologist Salim Ali was born in Mumbai by the name of Hubbardman of India. |
| 1908 | Bulgaria declared her independence. |
| 1912 | The bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and his companions werediscovered, roughly eight months after their deaths during the ill-fatedBritish Antarctic Expedition 1910. |
| 1918 | After the defeat of the Austrian-Hungry Empire in World War I and the separation of these two countries, the monarchical system of governance in Austria ended and the period of democratic governance began. |
| 1927 | Mahatma Gandhi made his first and last visit to Ceylon. |
| 1928 | Approximately 111 people, mostly women and children, died afterthe British ocean liner SS Vestris was abandoned as it sank in thewestern Atlantic Ocean. |
| 1930 | The first round table conference started in London at Lord Irwin's initiative. 56 Indian and 23 British representatives participated in it but no member of the Indian National Congress was involved. |
| 1936 | The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, connecting SanFrancisco and Oakland, California across San Francisco Bay, opened totraffic. |
| 1936 | The temples of Kerala open to all Hindus. |
| 1940 | Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Berlin todiscuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers. |
| 1944 | Second World War-The Royal Air Force sank the German battleship Tirpitz on the ninth attempt, resulting in about 1,000 deaths of the sailors on board. |
| 1945 | Sudirman was elected the first commander-in-chief of theIndonesian Armed Forces. |
| 1946 | Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, founder of Banaras Hindu University and awarded Bharat Ratna, died in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. |
| 1956 | Zionist regime troops attacked a refugee camp in Rafah Nagar in the Gaza Strip and massacred Palestinians. 110 Palestinian martyrs and about 1 thousand people were injured in this ruthless massacre. |
| 1970 | The 1970 Bhola cyclone made landfall on the coast of EastPakistan (Bangladesh), becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone inhistory, with over 300,000 people killed. |
| 1970 | The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroya rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with explosives. |
| 1970 | East Pakistan, present-day Bangladesh) and West Bengal's cyclonic storm \ 'Bhola \' killed about five lakh people in the devastation. |
| 1991 | In Dili, East Timor, Indonesian forces opened fire on studentdemonstrators protesting the occupation of East Timor, killing at least250 people. |
| 1996 | A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakhstan Airlinescargo plane collided in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349 people. |
| 2001 | American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into residential buildingsfive minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport inNew York, killing a total of 265 people. |
| 2001 | All 260 passengers on board the American Airlines plane crashed in New York. |
| 2005 | Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, pays a surprise visit to Iraq and voices support for an Arab League conference that discusses cooperation with the many parties of Iraq's. |
| 2006 | Israel has threatened Iran to blastoff air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities "as a last resort". The foreign ministry of Iran retorts that it would "retaliate with a crushing blow" if Iran goes ahead with this decision. |
| 2006 | Although the Georgian government declared it illegal, SouthOssetia held a referendum on independence, with about 99 percent ofvoters supporting, to preserve the region's status as a de factoindependent state. |
| 2006 | The International Treaty \ 'Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War \' came into force. |
| 2007 | A 16-year-old Spanish anti-racism liberal is killed amid a far-right anti-immigration protest in that took place in Madrid. |
| 2008 | India victoriously test fires the first submarine-launched ballistic missile, Sagarika from a land-based launcher. |
| 2009 | 2 Japanese submarines that had sunk during World War II have been found off Oahu, Hawaii. |
| 2009 | To promote tourism in India, the Central Government's 'Incredible India \ campaign was awarded the World Travel Award-2009. |
| 2010 | In an attempt to cut it’s cultural budget as a part of severity measures, the government of has shut down major cultural attractions in Italy. |
| 2011 | South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed to come together to build a mega-hydroelectric plant on the Congo River to deal with their nations' growing energy needs. |
| 2012 | Abu Qatada, a Muslim priest will be freed on bail after winning a petition against expulsion from the United Kingdom to Jordan. However, the UK government claims that it will plea against the ruling. |
| 2013 | The plans to better the technical functioning of the stock markets have been mutually declared by the U.S stock exchanges. This decision was arrived at after the recent high profile anomalies such as the trading halt in Nasdaq, which took place in August. |
| 2014 | Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President of the United States Barack Obama have together arrived at a solution to limit greenhouse gases. |
| 2015 | A suicide bombing killed 43 in Lebanon. |
Famous Birthdays of November 12 😀:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1990 | Florent Manaudou / Swimmer / France |
| 1968 | Aaron Stainthorpe / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 1987 | Jason Day / Golfer / Australia |
| 1914 | Peter Whitehead / Racing Car Driver / United Kingdom |
| 1980 | Shaun Cooper / Bass Player / United States of America |
| 1908 | Harry Blackmun / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 1986 | Ignazio Abate / Footballer / Italy |
| 1606 | Jeanne Mance / Nurse / France |
| 1947 | Buck Dharma / Writer / United States of America |
| 1729 | Louis Antoine de Bougainville / Admiral / France |
| 1981 | Sergio Floccari / Footballer / Italy |
| 1684 | Edward Vernon / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1983 | Charlie Morton / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1923 | Rubén Bonifaz Nuño / Poet / Mexico |
| 1976 | Richelle Mead / Author / United States of America |
| 1994 | Guillaume Cizeron / Dancer / France |
| 1980 | Nur Fettahoğlu / Actress / Germany |
| 1982 | Anne Hathaway / Actress / United States of America |
| 1886 | Ben Travers / Author / United Kingdom |
| 1755 | Gerhard von Scharnhorst / Politician / Russia |
| 1984 | Sandara Park / Singer / South Korea |
| 1962 | Kuniko Asagi / Actress / Japan |
| 1978 | Ashley Williams / Actress / United States of America |
| 1964 | David Ellefson / Writer / United States of America |
| 1898 | Leon Štukelj / Gymnast / Slovenia |
| 1938 | Mort Shuman / Writer / United States of America |
| 1916 | Jean Papineau-Couture / Academic / Canada |
| 1922 | Kim Hunter / Actress / United States of America |
| 1938 | Denis DeJordy / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 1979 | Corey Maggette / Basketball Player / United States of America |
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Aapane abhi padha: 12 Navambar Ki Pramukh Aitihasik Ghatnayen.
Read in Hindi : 12 नवम्बर की प्रमुख ऐतिहासिक घटनाएं