On November 12, 1923, Adolf Hitler was arrested for his attempted German Coup. On the same day in 1942, the battle of Guadalcanal began during World War II.
1439: – Plymouth in England became the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1729: – The secret treaty between France and Bavaria was renewed.
1893: – The treaty of Durand Line was signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan.
1910: – The first ever movie stunt took place in which a man jumped in Hudson River from a burning balloon.
1912: – British explorer Robert Scott’s diary and body was found in Antarctica.
1915: – Theodore W Richards became the first American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry.
1923: – Adolf Hitler was arrested for his attempted German Coup.
1927: – Josef Stalin took full control of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the communist party.
1942: – During World War II, the battle of Guadalcanal began.
1944: – The German battleship Tirpitz sank in a Norwegian fjord.
1971: – The President Richard Nixon announced the withdrawal of about 45,000 US troops from Vietnam by February.
1990: – Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
2013: – Hawaii became the 16th state to legalize same-sex marriage.
2015: – Barack Obama became 1st sitting US President to pose for the cover of a gay magazine.
Days on November 12: –
- World Pneumonia Day
- National Health Day (Indonesia)
- National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day