November 12

Friday 12, 2004:

Resignation of Colin Powell as Secretary of State.

Wednesday 12, 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.

Tuesday 12, 2002:

Special Extended DVD Edition of ' is released.

Monday 12, 2001:

2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.

Thursday 12, 1998:

Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.

Wednesday 12, 1997:

Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Tuesday 12, 1996:

A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, India killing 349.

Thursday 12, 1992:

Absolutely Fabulous airs its first episode on BBC1.

Tuesday 12, 1991:

Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.

Monday 12, 1990:

Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

Friday 12, 1982:

In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev.

Wednesday 12, 1980:

The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest aproach to Saturn.

Monday 12, 1979:

Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.

Friday 12, 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.

Thursday 12, 1970:

The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Gray whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident

Wednesday 12, 1969:

Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.

Friday 12, 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.

Tuesday 12, 1946:

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

Sunday 12, 1944:

World War II: The Royal Air Force launches one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz off the coast of Norway.

Thursday 12, 1942:

World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal, will last for three days.

Wednesday 12, 1941:

World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.

Saturday 12, 1938:

Hermann Göring announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.

Thursday 12, 1936:

In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.

Monday 12, 1934:

The musical Babes in Toyland debuts, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as comic relief (see Laurel and Hardy).

Sunday 12, 1933:

Hugh Gray of the British Aluminium Company takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster; four of them turn out to be blank, while the last one is later proven to be a hoax.

Saturday 12, 1927:

The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

Tuesday 12, 1918:

Austria becomes a republic.

Tuesday 12, 1912:

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

Sunday 12, 1905:

(November 12 & 13) Norway holds referendum in favour of monarchy over republic.

Tuesday 12, 1439:

Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

Wednesday 12, 1028:

Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of dying Constantine VIII

Thursday 12, 764:

Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.

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