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Tōjō Hideki
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Leon Trotsky
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San Francisco-to-Oakland Bay bridge
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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William Heffelfinger
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The Corozal
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Robert Falcon Scott
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Bust of Lothair
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Artist's impression of Rosetta with Philae
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Bombing of Tirpitz
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Haakon VII of Norway
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| 954 – At the age of 13, Lothair of France (depicted) was crowned king of West Francia. | More sources needed banner |
| 1893 – Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, signed the Durand Line Agreement, establishing what is now the international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. | refimprove sections |
| 1905 – In a referendum, 79 percent of voters opted to keep Norway a monarchy, paving the way for [[Haakon VII|Template:Nowrap]] (pictured) to take the throne. | Date not cited, referendum took place over two days. |
| 1927 – Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union. | lots of CN tags (21) |
| 1936 – The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Oakland, California across San Francisco Bay, opened to traffic. | lots of CN tags in one section |
| 1948 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East sentenced former prime minister Hideki Tojo and other military and government officials from the former Empire of Japan to death for committing war crimes during World War II. | unreferenced section |
| 1969 – American journalist Seymour Hersh published his exposé of the My Lai massacre, which later earned him the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. | refimprove section |
| 1993 – President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev issued a decree "about introducing national currency of Republic of Kazakhstan", leading to the establishment of the Kazakhstani tenge three days later. | refimprove |
| 2011 – Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi tendered his resignation in part due to his perceived failure to tackle Italy's debt crisis. | outdated section |
| Claude of France |b|1547| | 10 {cn} tags |
| Yazid I |d|683 | Source used (EB1911) says "presumably" died on 12 November |
| Chen Guangcheng |b|1971| | No citation for birthday |
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- 1892 – William Heffelfinger was paid $500 by the Allegheny Athletic Association, becoming the first professional American football player.
- 1911 – The Corozal, the most powerful dredger built to that time, was launched in London for service in construction of the Panama Canal.
- 1912 – Eight months after perishing during the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, the bodies of Robert Falcon Scott (pictured) and his companions were discovered on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
- 1928 – The British ocean liner Template:SS sank in the western Atlantic Ocean, killing 111 people.
- 1932 – At the request of the Government of Western Australia, the Australian military officially resumed fighting the Emu War after their prior withdrawal.
- 1940 – World War II: Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis powers.
- 1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the decisive engagement in a series of sea battles between Allied and Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands, began.
- 1944 – Second World War: In Operation Catechism, the Royal Air Force sank the German battleship Tirpitz (video featured) near Tromsø, Norway, killing about 1,000 sailors on board.
- 1956 – Suez Crisis: During an invasion of Rafah, Israeli soldiers shot and killed an estimated 111 Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants.
- 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with dynamite.
- 1973 – The first episode of Last of the Summer Wine, the longest-running television sitcom in history, premiered on the BBC.
- 1991 – Indonesian forces opened fire on student demonstrators protesting the occupation of East Timor in the capital Dili, killing at least 250 people.
- 1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Template:Nowrap and a Kazakhstan Airlines Template:Nowrap collided in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349 people, the deadliest such collision in history.
- 2001 – American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into residential buildings five minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, killing a total of 265 people.
- 2006 – Although the Georgian government declared it illegal, South Ossetia held a referendum on independence, with more than 99 percent of voters in favour of preserving the region's status as a de facto independent state.
- 2014 – The European Space Agency's lander Philae touched down on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a comet.
- Born/died this day: | Pope Boniface III |d|607| Johan Rantzau |b|1492| Zhang Jing |d|1555| Peter Martyr Vermigli |d|1562| Letitia Christian Tyler|b|1790| Rachel Barrett |b|1874| Ben Travers |b|1886| William Henry Barlow |d|1902| Jo Stafford |b|1917| Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley |b|1926| Edward Soriano |b|1946| Ansgar Løvold |d|1961| Naomi Wolf |b|1962| Minoru Yasui|d|1986|
Notes
- Silvio Berlusconi prostitute trial appears on July 18, so Berlusconi himself should not appear in the same year
- History of American football appears on November 6, so William Heffelfinger should not appear in the same year
November 12 Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1330 – Led by the voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada (depicted).
- 1920 – The Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes signed the Treaty of Rapallo to establish national borders east of the Adriatic Sea.
- 1940 – World War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy France.
- 1970 – The deadliest tropical cyclone in history made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), killing at least 250,000 people.
- 2011 – An explosion in the Shahid Modarres missile base led to the deaths of 17 members of the Revolutionary Guards, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.