1035 Cnut the Great, King of Denmark, England and Norway, died at Shaftesbury on November 12, 1035. He is buried in Winchester Cathedral where some remains are in chests above the choir. The norseman's choice of Winchester as a final resting place confirmed his sense of identity with the country whose monarchy he had replaced.
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| King Canute the Great illustrated in an Initial of a medieval manuscript |
1439 In 1439 a request was made by the townsfolk of Sutton, to both King Henry VI and Parliament to give their place municipal status. The request was agreed and Sutton became the first town incorporated by the English Parliament on November 12, 1439. The name Plymouth officially replaced Sutton in a charter of King Henry VI the following year.
1543 Philip II of Spain married his cousin, Maria Manuela of Portugal on November 12, 1543 at Salamanca when they were both 16 years old. She gave him a son, Don Carlos of Spain (1545-1568) but died a few days later due to a hemorrhage. Following Maria's death, Philip sought an alliance with England, marrying the Catholic Queen Mary I in 1554. After Mary's death four years later, Philip married two more times.
1799 The first meteor shower on record occurred on November 12, 1799 when the Leonids meteor shower, was witnessed off the Florida Keys by Andrew Ellicott Douglass. The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle. They get their name from the location of their radiant in the constellation Leo: the meteors appear to radiate from that point in the sky.
1819 Mary Shelley had four pregnancies in her eight-year relationship with Percy Shelley including one premature daughter who died two months after her birth. She suffered the loss of her infant daughter Clara Everina of dysentery and nine months later, their three-year-old son William died of malaria in Rome. The birth of Mary Shelley's only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley on November 12, 1819, consoled her somewhat for her losses.
1833 Alexander Borodin was born in Saint Petersburg on November 12, 1833, the illegitimate son of Prince Luka Spanovich Gedianov, an elderly nobleman, and the beautiful and intelligent 24-year-old Avdotya Konstantinova Antonova. To save any public embarrassment, he was registered under the name of one of the Prince’s serfs, Pofiry Borodin. Although best known today as a composer, Borodin also made important early contributions to the field of organic chemistry.
1840 The French sculptor Auguste Rodin was born on November 12, 1840. Rodin is best known for creating one of the most recognized of all sculptures, The Thinker, in 1889. The most renowned European sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he remains one of the few sculptors widely known outside the visual arts community.
1859 Jules Léotard (1838–1870) abandoned his law studies to become a trapeze artist. Léotard won almost immediate success during a performance in Cirque Napoleon in Paris on November 12, 1859 when for the first time he swung from one trapeze to the other. The acrobatic act was called “La Course aux Trapèze” and it lasted for 12 minutes.
1867 The UK Conservative party held their first annual party conference on November 12, 1867 in a London pub, the Freemasons in Great Queen Street. The party was founded in 1834 by Robert Peel out of the old Tory Party. Under the leadership of Benjamin Disraeli, the Conservatives created a philosophy which supported the British Empire, the Church of England, the monarchy and social reforms.
1892 When William "Pudge" Heffelfinger participated in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association on November 12, 1892, he was paid $500, becoming the first professional American football player on record. The payment for Heffelfinger's play was not published or admitted at the time.
1905 When Prince Carl of Denmark was offered the throne of newly independent Norway in 1905, he refused to take it unless the Norwegian people agreed that they wanted a monarchy rather than a republic. The referendum was held on November 12, 1905, which he won with 79% of the vote. Prince Carl, who became King Haakon VII, reigned until his death in September 1957.
1912 The bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and two companions were found in a tent by a search party on November 12, 1912. They had perished on their return from the South Pole at a distance of 150 miles (241 kms) from their Antarctica base camp and 11 miles (18 kms) from the next depot.
1929 The actress Grace Kelly was born on November 12, 1929, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father John B. Kelly, Sr. won 126 consecutive single scull rowing races between 1919 and 1920 and three Olympic gold medals for sculling. She made four all time classic Hollywood movies, including three by Alfred Hitchock: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. Grace Kelly gave up her acting career aged 26 when she married Prince Rainier III and became Princess of Monaco.
1931 The house at 3 Abbey Road, London was bought by EMI in 1929 for £100,000. It was converted into the world's first custom-built recording studios. Pathé filmed the opening of the studios on November 12, 1931 when Sir Edward Elgar conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in recording sessions of his music.
1954 The immigration station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor opened in 1892. It shut 61 years later on November 12, 1954, after processing more than 12 million immigrants. The process at Ellis Island involved medical and legal inspections to ensure that immigrants were healthy and not likely to become a burden on society. While many people passed through smoothly, some were detained or even denied entry based on health or legal grounds.
1955 Billboard magazine combined its three separate pop charts (radio rotation, jukebox plays and store sales) to create the first ever Top 100 list on November 12, 1955. Top of the heap was "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" by The Four Aces, with versions of the same song by Don Cornell, David Rose and Woody Herman also featuring in the tally.
1974 Water quality has steadily improved in the River Thames since sewers were repaired in the 1960s, and a salmon was caught in the River Thames on November 12, 1974, the first seen in the 20th century. The river is now home to wild salmon.
1543 Philip II of Spain married his cousin, Maria Manuela of Portugal on November 12, 1543 at Salamanca when they were both 16 years old. She gave him a son, Don Carlos of Spain (1545-1568) but died a few days later due to a hemorrhage. Following Maria's death, Philip sought an alliance with England, marrying the Catholic Queen Mary I in 1554. After Mary's death four years later, Philip married two more times.
1799 The first meteor shower on record occurred on November 12, 1799 when the Leonids meteor shower, was witnessed off the Florida Keys by Andrew Ellicott Douglass. The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle. They get their name from the location of their radiant in the constellation Leo: the meteors appear to radiate from that point in the sky.
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| Meteor shower 2018 Pixibay |
1819 Mary Shelley had four pregnancies in her eight-year relationship with Percy Shelley including one premature daughter who died two months after her birth. She suffered the loss of her infant daughter Clara Everina of dysentery and nine months later, their three-year-old son William died of malaria in Rome. The birth of Mary Shelley's only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley on November 12, 1819, consoled her somewhat for her losses.
1833 Alexander Borodin was born in Saint Petersburg on November 12, 1833, the illegitimate son of Prince Luka Spanovich Gedianov, an elderly nobleman, and the beautiful and intelligent 24-year-old Avdotya Konstantinova Antonova. To save any public embarrassment, he was registered under the name of one of the Prince’s serfs, Pofiry Borodin. Although best known today as a composer, Borodin also made important early contributions to the field of organic chemistry.
1840 The French sculptor Auguste Rodin was born on November 12, 1840. Rodin is best known for creating one of the most recognized of all sculptures, The Thinker, in 1889. The most renowned European sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he remains one of the few sculptors widely known outside the visual arts community.
1859 Jules Léotard (1838–1870) abandoned his law studies to become a trapeze artist. Léotard won almost immediate success during a performance in Cirque Napoleon in Paris on November 12, 1859 when for the first time he swung from one trapeze to the other. The acrobatic act was called “La Course aux Trapèze” and it lasted for 12 minutes.
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| Jules Léotard |
1867 The UK Conservative party held their first annual party conference on November 12, 1867 in a London pub, the Freemasons in Great Queen Street. The party was founded in 1834 by Robert Peel out of the old Tory Party. Under the leadership of Benjamin Disraeli, the Conservatives created a philosophy which supported the British Empire, the Church of England, the monarchy and social reforms.
1892 When William "Pudge" Heffelfinger participated in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association on November 12, 1892, he was paid $500, becoming the first professional American football player on record. The payment for Heffelfinger's play was not published or admitted at the time.
1905 When Prince Carl of Denmark was offered the throne of newly independent Norway in 1905, he refused to take it unless the Norwegian people agreed that they wanted a monarchy rather than a republic. The referendum was held on November 12, 1905, which he won with 79% of the vote. Prince Carl, who became King Haakon VII, reigned until his death in September 1957.
1912 The bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and two companions were found in a tent by a search party on November 12, 1912. They had perished on their return from the South Pole at a distance of 150 miles (241 kms) from their Antarctica base camp and 11 miles (18 kms) from the next depot.
1929 The actress Grace Kelly was born on November 12, 1929, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father John B. Kelly, Sr. won 126 consecutive single scull rowing races between 1919 and 1920 and three Olympic gold medals for sculling. She made four all time classic Hollywood movies, including three by Alfred Hitchock: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. Grace Kelly gave up her acting career aged 26 when she married Prince Rainier III and became Princess of Monaco.
1931 The house at 3 Abbey Road, London was bought by EMI in 1929 for £100,000. It was converted into the world's first custom-built recording studios. Pathé filmed the opening of the studios on November 12, 1931 when Sir Edward Elgar conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in recording sessions of his music.
1954 The immigration station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor opened in 1892. It shut 61 years later on November 12, 1954, after processing more than 12 million immigrants. The process at Ellis Island involved medical and legal inspections to ensure that immigrants were healthy and not likely to become a burden on society. While many people passed through smoothly, some were detained or even denied entry based on health or legal grounds.
1955 Billboard magazine combined its three separate pop charts (radio rotation, jukebox plays and store sales) to create the first ever Top 100 list on November 12, 1955. Top of the heap was "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" by The Four Aces, with versions of the same song by Don Cornell, David Rose and Woody Herman also featuring in the tally.
1974 Water quality has steadily improved in the River Thames since sewers were repaired in the 1960s, and a salmon was caught in the River Thames on November 12, 1974, the first seen in the 20th century. The river is now home to wild salmon.
1980 The actor Ryan Gosling was born on November 12, 1980. He was born at the same hospital in London, Ontario as the pop star Justin Bieber and Notebook co-star Rachel McAdams. A Mickey Mouse Club child actor. he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in the romantic musical La La Land (2016). He has also starred in the films The Notebook, Drive, Crazy, Stupid, Love. and First Man.
1988 Inspired by the antics of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club, the first commercial bungee jumping setup was opened on Kawarau Bridge in Queenstown, New Zealand on November 12, 1988. A group of 28 people — copying Vanuatu natives who ritualistically jumped from wooden platforms with vines tied to their ankles — took the plunge on the bungee jump's opening day.
1990 English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee developed and implemented the World Wide Web. While working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), near Geneva, Switzerland. He first published a formal proposal on November 12, 1990 to build a "Hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" (one word) as a "web" of "hypertext documents" to be viewed by "browsers".
2004 The modern Sudoku puzzle was invented in Indianapolis, USA in 1979 by retired architect Howard Garns. In 1997, New Zealander Wayne Gould saw a partly completed Sudoku puzzle in a Japanese bookshop. He developed a computer program that could mass-produce puzzles for the global market. It attracted the interest of The London Times, which launched the puzzle on November 12, 2004 (calling it Su Doku). The Sudoku puzzles rapidly spread to other UK newspapers as a regular feature, stimulating international interest.
2014 The Philae is a robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanied the Rosetta spacecraft. On November 12, 2014 it landed on Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the first-ever controlled touchdown on a comet nucleus.
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