Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: November 12
November 12, 2024 is the 317th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 49 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Scorpio is your zodiac sign. Topaz is your modern birthstone. Pearl is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: November 12
- 1555 –The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
- 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.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1999 –The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
- 2001 –Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
- 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.
- 2011 –Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.
Who were born on November 12?
- 1528 –Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)
- 1817 –Bahá'u'lláh, Persian spiritual figure (d. 1892)
- 1850 –Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
- 1910 –Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (d. 1981)
- 1939 –Ruby Nash Curtis, American singer (Ruby & the Romantics)
- 1943 –Julie Ege, Norwegian actress (d. 2008)
- 1973 –Radha Mitchell, Australian actress
- 1975 –Angela Watson, American actress
- 1978 –Aaron Heilman, American baseball player
- 1979 –Corey Maggette, American basketball player
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