12 November

The **12t o November** is the 316t day o the year (317t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 49 days bidin.

## Events

* 1793 - Jean-Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor o Paris, is executit bi guillotine.
* 1847 - Scots medicinar James Young Simpson publishes a piece on the effects o chloroform.
* 1905 - A majority o voters in newly independent Norawa support haein a monarchy.
* 1908 - A mine shaft splosion in Hamm, wastren Germany, kills 348 fowk.
* 1918 - Austrick becomes a republic.
* 1928 - The ship "SS Vestris"  sinks aroond 200 kilometres aff Hampton Roads, Virginie, killin at least 110 fowk.
* 1956 - Morocco, Sudan an Tunisie jyn the Unitit Naitions.
* 1968 - Equatorial Guinea jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1975 - The Comoros jyn the Unitit Naitions.
* 1980 - The Voyager 1 spacecraft taks pictures o the planet Saturn an its rings.
* 1982 - Pols Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is released.
* 1982 - Yuri Andropov is installed as leader o the Soviet Union efter the daith o Leonid Brezhnev.
* 1990 - Akihito is formally installed as Emperor o Japan.
* 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes his final proposal for the Warld Wide Web.
* 1995 - Mozambique jyns the Commonweel o Nations.
* 1999 - A yirdquauk in Northwastren Turkey kills 370 fowk.
* 2001 - American Airlines Flicht 587 crashes in Queens, New York Ceety, killin 260 fowk.
* 2003 - A suicide bombin on an Italian polis base in Nasiriyah, Iraq, kills 23 fowk.
* 2011 - Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime meenister o Italy.
* 2014 - The Rosetta spacecraft's Philae lander lands on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
* 2015 - Suicide bomb attacks in Beirut, Lebanon, kill at least 40 fowk.
* 2017 - A magnitude 7.3 yirdquauk hits the mairch region o Iran an Iraq, killin at least 450 fowk.

## Births

* 1774 - Charles Bell, Scots anatomist an pheesiologist (d. 1842)
* 1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (d. 1902)
* 1817 - Baha'u'llah, founder o the Baha'i Faith (d. 1892)
* 1833 - Alexander Borodin, Roushie componer (d. 1887)
* 1840 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
* 1842 - John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Inglis pheesicist (d. 1919)
* 1866 - Sun Yat-sen, Cheenese poleetical leader (d. 1925)
* 1915 - Roland Barthes, French polymath (d. 1980)
* 1923 - Loriot, German comedian, actor an writer (d. 2011)
* 1929 - Michael Ende, German writer (d. 1995)
* 1929 - Grace Kelly, American actress an Princess o Monaco (d. 1982)
* 1933 - Jalal Talabani, Iraqi Kurdish politeecian, Preses o Iraq (d. 2017)
* 1934 - Charles Manson, American mass murtherer an cult leader (d. 2017)
* 1945 - Neil Young, Canadian sangster an sangwriter
* 1948 - Hassan Rouhani, Preses o Iran
* 1960 - Maurane, Belgian sangster (d. 2018)
* 1961 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast
* 1964 - Michael Kremer, American economist
* 1968 - Kathleen Hanna, American sangster
* 1971 - Chen Guangcheng, Cheenese activist
* 1975 - Katherine Grainger, Scots rower
* 1980 - Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
* 1980 - Bob Malcolm, Scots fitbawer
* 1982 - Anne Hathaway, American actress
* 1996 - Scott McKenna, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1094 - Duncan II o Scotland (b. 1060)
* 1793 - Jean-Sylvain Bailly, 1st Mayor o Paris (b. 1736)
* 1904 - George Lennox Watson, Scots naval airchitect (b. 1851)
* 1954 - Alex Smith, Scots fitbawer (b. 1876)
* 2010 - Henryk Gorecki, Pols componer (b. 1933)
* 2018 - Stan Lee, American comic writer, publisher an actor (b. 1922)

## Halidays
* Baha'u'llah's Birthday (Baha'i Faith)

## Ootside airtins
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