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954 – At the age of 13,
Lothair of France (depicted) was crowned king of
West Francia .
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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.
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1927 –
Leon Trotsky was expelled from the
Communist Party , leaving
Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the
Soviet Union .
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1936 – The
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge , connecting
San Francisco and
Oakland, California across
San Francisco Bay , opened to traffic.
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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.
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1969 – American journalist
Seymour Hersh published his exposé of the
My Lai massacre , which later earned him the
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting .
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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.
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2011 – Italian prime minister
Silvio Berlusconi tendered his resignation in part due to his perceived failure to tackle Italy's
debt crisis .
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Claude of France |b|1547|
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Yazid I |d|683
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Chen Guangcheng |b|1971|
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1330 – Led by the
voivode
Basarab I ,
Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the
Battle of Posada .
1905 – In
a referendum , 79 percent of voters opted to keep Norway
a monarchy , paving the way for
Haakon VII to take the throne.
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
SS Vestris 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
Great Emu War after their prior withdrawal.
1940 –
World War II :
Free French forces
captured Gabon from
Vichy France .
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 : The
Royal Air Force sank the
German battleship Tirpitz on the
ninth attempt (video featured) , killing about 1,000 sailors on board.
1948 – Former Japanese prime minister
Hideki Tojo was sentenced to death for
war crimes alongside generals
Iwane Matsui ,
Akira Mutō and
Kenji Doihara .
1970 – The
Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully
attempted to destroy a rotting beached
sperm whale near
Florence, Oregon , with dynamite.
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 Boeing 747 and a
Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76
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 .
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.
Born/died this day: |
Johan Rantzau |b|1492|
Peter Martyr Vermigli |d|1562|
Auguste Rodin |b|1840|
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|
Naomi Wolf |b|1962
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November 12
Artist's impression of
Rosetta with
Philae