November 12th, 2009

November 12th in History

2003:
Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.

1971:
Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.

1948:
In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.

1946:
A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.

1912:
The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.