November 12

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

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