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, 2025 is the 316th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 49 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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
- 1602 –Sebastian Viscaino lands at and names San Diego, California.
- 1918 –Austria becomes a republic.
- 1938 –Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the “Jewish homeland”, an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
- 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.
- 1980 –The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
- 1982 –In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
- 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.
Who were born on November 12?
- 1815 –Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American suffragette (d. 1902)
- 1915 –Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (d. 1980)
- 1936 –Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
- 1940 –Michel Audet, Quebec economist and politician
- 1947 –Ron Bryant, American baseball player
- 1948 –Cliff Harris, American football player
- 1960 –Maurane, Belgian singer
- 1961 –Michaela Paetsch, American violinist
- 1977 –Benni McCarthy, South African footballer
- 1981 –D. J. Campbell, English footballer
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