Historical Events -  November 12

1781 : The British captured Nagapattinam.

1847 : British physician Sir James Young Simpson used chloroform for the first time as an anesthetic.

1905 : The people of Norway agreed to retain the monarchy instead of becoming a republic.

1918 : Austria became a republic.

1927 : Leon Trotsky was ousted from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in power.

1930 : The first Round Table Conference began.

1936 : Kerala temples opened to all Hindus.

1945 : Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel discussed the political situation, in Pune, for ten and a half hours.

1956 : Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia joined the United Nations.

1984 : One rupee currency coin was introduced.

1990 : Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

1997 : Ramozi Yousef was convicted of bombing World Trade Center in 1993.

1998 : Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced the introduction of the Person of Indian Origin (PIO) identity card scheme to facilitate visa-free travel for Indians residing abroad.

2000 : It was decided in India to celebrate November 12 as National Public Broadcasting Day.

2003 : The Shanghai Transrapid passenger train set a world record of 501 km / h.

 

Famous Birthdays   – November 12  

1817: Baháʼu’lláh, a Persian religious leader, and the founder of the Baháʼí Faith.

1819: Sir Monier Monier-Williams, the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University, England. 

1866: Sun Yat-sen, the first president of the People’s Republic of China.

1880: Pandurang Mahadev Bapat, popularly known as Senapati Bapat, was a figure in the Indian independence movement.

1889: David Wallace, co-founder of Reader’s Digest.

1896: Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali, an Indian ornithologist, and naturalist.

1940: Amjad Khan, an Indian actor, and director.

1946: Gopal Bedi (Ranjeet), an Indian film and television actor.

1982: Anne Hathaway, an American actress.

 

Death Anniversaries   – November 12

1916: Percival Lawrence Lowell, an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer.

1946: Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, an Indian scholar, educational reformer, and politician.

1969: Sahibzada Iskander Ali Mirza, a Pakistani general, civil servant, and the first President of Pakistan.

2003: Jonathan Brandis, an American actor. 

2014: Ravi Chopra, an Indian film producer, and director.

2018: Stan Lee, an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer.