November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining.
Events:
- 1927 - Leon Trotsky expelled from Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control
- 1942 - Battle of Guadalcanal begins
- 2001 - American Airlines flight 587, crashes on takeoff from Kennedy Airport, in New York City. See NY planecrash III.
Births:
- 1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women's rights activist
- 1817 - Mírzá Husayn-'Alí (Bahaullah, founder of the Bahá'í Faith and the Orthodox Bahai Faith)
- 1833 - Alexander Borodin, composer
- 1840 - Auguste Rodin, sculptor (+ 1917)
- 1903 - Jack Oakie, actor
- 1908 - Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade
- 1910 - Kurt Hoffmann, film director
- 1920 - Richard Quine, actor
- 1922 - Sunset Carson, actor
- 1922 - Kim Hunter, actress
- 1923 - Vicco von Bülow, known as Loriot, graphic artist, actor and film director
- 1929 - Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco, actress (+ 1982)
- 1929 - Michael Ende, writer (+ 1995)
- 1930 - Ann Flood, actress
- 1943 - Brian Hyland, singer
- 1943 - Wallace Shawn, actor, playwright
- 1944 - Booker T. Jones, musician (Booker T and the MG's)
- 1945 - Neil Young, singer, songwriter, musician
- 1961 - Nadia Comaneci, gymnast
- 1968 - Sammy Sosa, baseball player
Deaths:
- 1994 - Wilma Rudolph, runner
Holidays and Observances:
See Also:
November 11 - November 13 - October 12 - December 12 -- listing of all days
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