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.
