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November 12

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Disney+

6 years ago

Born this day

1866

Sun Yat-sen

Died aged 58

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377th

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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Famous births30

1648 · 377 yrs

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (12 November 1648 – 17 April 1695), was a Hieronymite nun and a Novohispanic writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, nicknamed "The Tenth Muse", "The Mexican Phoenix", and "The Phoenix of America" by her…

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LiteratureDied aged 46

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1815 · 210 yrs

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (née Cady; November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century.

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LiteratureDied aged 86

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1817 · 208 yrs

Baháʼu'lláh

Baháʼu'lláh (Persian:, born Ḥusayn-ʻAlí; 12 November 1817 – 29 May 1892) was an Iranian religious leader who founded the Baháʼí Faith. He was born to an aristocratic family in Iran and was exiled due to his adherence to the messianic Bábism.

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LiteratureDied aged 74

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1840 · 185 yrs

Auguste Rodin

François Auguste René Rodin (French:; 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work.

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ArtDied aged 77

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1842 · 183 yrs

John William Strutt

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh ( RAY-lee; 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919), was a British physicist and hereditary peer who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 for his discovery of argon.

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ScienceDied aged 76

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1858 · 167 yrs

Marie Bashkirtseva

Marie Bashkirtseff, born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva (Russian: Мария Константиновна Башкирцева; 24 November 1858 – 31 October 1884), was an émigré artist who was born into a noble family on their estate near the city of Poltava. She lived and worked in Paris, and died at the age of 25.

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ArtDied aged 25

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1866 · 159 yrs

Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925) was a Chinese physician, revolutionary and political philosopher who founded the Republic of China (ROC) and the Kuomintang (KMT). Sun is credited with leading the 1911 Revolution and overthrowing the Qing dynasty.

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PoliticsDied aged 58

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1915 · 110 yrs

Roland Barthes

Roland Gérard Barthes (French:; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture.

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PhilosophyWould be 110

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1929 · 96 yrs

Grace Kelly

Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982. Prior to her marriage, she achieved stardom in several significant Hollywood films in the early to mid-1950s.

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RoyaltyWould be 96

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1929 · 96 yrs

Michael Ende

Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (German pronunciation:; 12 November 1929 – 28 August 1995) was a German writer of fantasy and children's fiction.

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1933 · 92 yrs

Jalal Talabani

Jalal Talabani (Kurdish: جەلال تاڵەبانی, romanized: Celal Talebanî, Arabic: جلال طالباني, romanized: Jalāl Ṭālabānī; 1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the 6th president of Iraq from 2005 to 2014, as well as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq.

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PoliticsWould be 92

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1934 · 91 yrs

Charles Manson

Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American cult leader, murderer, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family.

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MusicWould be 91

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Famous deaths9

1865 · 160 yrs

Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian society, including the lives of the very poor.

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LiteratureDied aged 55

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1916 · 109 yrs

Percival Lowell

Percival Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within the Solar System.

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ScienceDied aged 61

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1969 · 56 yrs

Liu Shaoqi

Liu Shaoqi (Chinese: 刘少奇; pronounced; 24 November 1898 – 12 November 1969) was a Chinese revolutionary and politician.

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PoliticsWould be 127

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1981 · 44 yrs

William Holden

William Franklin Holden (né Beedle; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor. He was an Academy Award and Primetime Emmy Award winner, and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s.

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1989 · 36 yrs

Dolores Ibárruri

Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (Spanish:; 9 December 1895 – 12 November 1989), also known as Pasionaria ("the passionate one" or Passion flower"), was a Spanish Republican politician during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and a communist. She is renowned for her slogan ¡No Pasarán!

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PoliticsWould be 130

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1994 · 31 yrs

Wilma Rudolph

Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame polio as a child and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.

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SportsWould be 86

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2018 · 7 yrs

Stan Lee

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Comics, which later became Marvel Comics.

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LiteratureWould be 103

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2020 · 5 yrs

Masatoshi Koshiba

Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴昌俊, Koshiba Masatoshi; 19 September 1926 – 12 November 2020) was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy.

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ScienceWould be 100

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2020 · 5 yrs

Jerry Rawlings

Jerry John Rawlings (22 June 1947 – 12 November 2020) was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator, politician, and revolutionary who led the country briefly in 1979 and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military regime until 1993 and then served two terms as the democratically elected president of Ghana.

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PoliticsWould be 79

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Events5

1920 · 105 yrs

Treaty of Rapallo

The Treaty of Rapallo was an agreement between the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the aftermath of the First World War.

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Politics

1921 · 104 yrs

Washington Naval Conference

The Washington Naval Conference (or the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament) was a disarmament conference called by the United States and held in Washington, D.C., from November 12, 1921, to February 6, 1922. It was conducted outside the auspices of the League of Nations.

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War

1996 · 29 yrs

Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision

On 12 November 1996, Saudia Flight 763, a Boeing 747-100 en route from Delhi, India, to Jeddah, with a stopover in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907, an Ilyushin Il-76 en route from Shymkent, Kazakhstan, to Delhi, collided over the city of Charkhi Dadri, around 100 kilometres (62 mi; 54 nmi)…

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Disaster

2017 · 8 yrs

2017 Iran–Iraq earthquake

On 12 November 2017 at 18:18 UTC (21:48 Iran Standard Time, 21:18 Arabia Standard Time), an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.4 occurred on the Iran–Iraq border, with the Iraqi Kurdish city of Halabja, and the Kurdish dominated places of Ezgeleh, Salas-e Babajani County, Kermanshah province in Iran, closest to…

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Disaster

2019 · 6 yrs

Disney+

Disney+ is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming media service owned and operated by Disney Streaming, the streaming division of Disney Entertainment, a major business segment of the Walt Disney Company.

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