Major Events
- 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese naval forces in the Solomon Islands; US forces prevail after days of intense fighting
- 1966 Buzz Aldrin takes the first “space selfie,” a photo of himself performing extravehicular activity in space during the Gemini 12 mission
- 1968 US Supreme Court: Epperson v. Arkansas declares unconstitutional the Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools
- 1970 Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing up to 500,000 people, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded
- 1990 The World Wide Web is first proposed by CERN computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau [1]
Nov 12 in Film & TV
- 1936 First-ever TV gardening show “In Your Garden” airs on the BBC
Nov 12 in Music
- 1989 George Forrest’s musical “Grand Hotel” opens at the Martin Beck Theatre in NYC, runs for 1,018 performances, and wins five Tony Awards
- 2021 LA judge rules to end Britney Spears‘ conservatorship, which had controlled almost all aspects of her life for 14 years
Nov 12 in Sport
- 1982 Zaheer Abbas scores his 100th first-class century while playing a Test for Pakistan against India and goes on to score 215 runs
Fun Fact About November 12
First possible movie stunt: A man jumps into the Hudson River from a burning balloon
Famous Weddings
- 1028 Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII
- 1472 Byzantine princes Sophia Palaiologina marries Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow in Dormition Cathedral, Moscow
- 1656 English Poet and author of epic “Paradise Lost” John Milton (47) marries 2nd wife Katherine Woodcock
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