Events
World
Pneumonia Day
World Pneumonia Day provides an annual forum
for the world to stand together and demand
action in the fight against pneumonia. More
than 100 organizations representing the
interests of children joined forces as the
Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia
to hold the first World Pneumonia Day on
November 2, 2009. Save The Children artist
ambassadors Gwyneth Paltrow and Hugh Laurie,
Charles MacCormack of Save The Children,
Orin Levine of PneumoADIP, Lance Laifer
of Hedge Funds vs. Malaria & Pneumonia,
the Global Health Council, the GAVI Alliance,
and the Sabin Vaccine Institute joined together
in a call to action asking people to participate
in World Pneumonia Day on November 2. In
2010, World Pneumonia Day falls on November
12.
Events
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– Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital
of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen
days.
1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes
the throne as empress consort to Romanus
Argyrus.
1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode
Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in
an ambush
1439 – Plymouth, England, becomes the first
town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1555 – The English Parliament re-establishes
Catholicism.
1602 – Sebastian Viscaino lands at and names
San Diego, California.
1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor
of Paris, is guillotined.
1892 – William "Pudge" Heffelfinger
becomes the first professional American
football player on record, participating
in his first paid game for the Allegheny
Athletic Association.
1893 – The treaty of the Durand Line is
signed between present day Pakistan and
Afghanistan; the Durand Line has gained
international recognition as an international
border between the two nations.
1905 – Norway holds a referendum in favor
of monarchy over republic.
1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott
and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf
in Antarctica.
1918 – Austria becomes a republic.
1920 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the
Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin
in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
1928 – SS Vestris sinks approximately 200
miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia,
killing at least 110 passengers, mostly
women and children who die after the vessel
is abandoned.
1933 – Hugh Gray takes the first known photos
of the Loch Ness Monster.
1936 – In California, the San Francisco
– Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1938 – Hermann Göring proposes plans to
make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland",
an idea that had first been considered by
19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of Gabon
ends as Free French Forces take Libreville,
Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa
from Vichy France forces.
1941 – World War II: temperatures around
Moscow drop to -12° C as the Soviet Union
launches ski troops for the first time against
the freezing German forces near the city.
1941 – World War II: The Soviet cruiser
Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the
Battle of Sevastopol.
1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of
Guadalcanal between Japanese and American
forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle
lasts for three days.
1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force
launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one
of the most successful precision bombing
attacks of war and sinks the German battleship
Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off
Tromsø, Norway.
1948 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes
tribunal sentences seven Japanese military
and government officials, including General
Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in
World War II.
1956 – Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the
United Nations.
1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren
Harding completes the first ascent of The
Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
1968 – Equatorial Guinea joins the United
Nations.
1969 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks
the My Lai story.
1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts
to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale
with explosives, leading to the now infamous
"exploding whale" incident.
1970 – The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall
on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the
deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
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.
1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
1978 – Pope John Paul II takes possession
of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of
St. John Lateran, as the Bishop of Rome.
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.
1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes
its closest approach to Saturn and takes
the first images of its rings.
1981 – Space Shuttle program: mission STS-2,
utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks
the first time a manned spacecraft is launched
into space twice.
1982 – In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov
becomes the general secretary of the Soviet
Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding
Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally
installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming
the 125th Japanese monarch.
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal
proposal for the World Wide Web.
1991 – Dili Massacre: Indonesian forces
open fire on a crowd of student protesters
in Dili, East Timor.
1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747
and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane
collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing
349. The deadliest mid-air collision to
date.
1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding
the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
1999 – The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey
with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
2001 – In New York City, American Airlines
Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the
Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after
takeoff from John F. Kennedy International
Airport, killing all 260 on board and five
on the ground.
2001 – Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces
abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing
Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2003 – Iraq war: in Nasiriya, Iraq, at least
23 people, among them the first Italian
casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq,
are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an
Italian police base.
2003 – Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world
speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311
mph)) for commercial railway systems, which
remains the fastest for unmodified commercial
rail vehicles.
2011– Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime
Minister of Italy due, in large part, to
the European sovereign debt crisis.
Holidays
and observances
Birth
of Bahá'u'lláh, celebration started at sunset
the day before. (Bahá'í Faith)
Birth of Sun Yat-Sen, also Doctors' Day
and Cultural Renaissance Day. (Republic
of China)
Christian Feast Day:
Cumméne Fota
Emilian of Cogolla
Josaphat Kuntsevych
Nilus of Sinai
Patiens
Arsatius
November 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Azerbaijan)
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