11-12-2004, 06:44 AM
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November 12th
1035 ~ Death of Canute the Great.
1833 ~ Birthday of Alexander Borodin, Russian composer.
1840 ~ Birthday of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor.
1918 ~ Austria became a republic.
1927 ~ Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
1944 ~ World War II: The Royal Air Force launched one of the more successful precision bombing attacks of war and sunk the German battleship Tirpitz off the coast of Norway.
1969 ~ Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the My Lai story.
1970 ~ The Oregon Highway Division attempted to destroy a rotting beached Grey whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident. (scroll to the bottom)
1982 ~ In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov was selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1990 ~ Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
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