12 November
Notable Births
Leonardo Puglisi
b. 2007
Australian journalist (born 2007)
Paolo Banchero
b. 2002
American basketball player (born 2002)
Raffey Cassidy
b. 2001
English actress (born 2001)
Choi Yoo-jung (singer)
b. 1999
South Korean singer and actress (born 1999)
Jules Koundé
b. 1998
French footballer (born 1998)
Elias Pettersson
b. 1998
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1998)
Dexter Lawrence
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Thomas Lemar
b. 1995
French footballer (born 1995)
XQc
b. 1995
Canadian streamer (born 1995)
Guillaume Cizeron
b. 1994
French ice dancer (born 1994)
Tomáš Hertl
b. 1993
Czech ice hockey player (born 1993)
Dāvis Bertāns
b. 1992
Latvian basketball player (born 1992)
Trey Burke
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Adam Larsson
b. 1992
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1992)
Luguelín Santos
b. 1992
Dominican sprinter
Cairo Santos
b. 1991
Brazilian-American gridiron football player (born 1991)
Gijs Van Hoecke
b. 1991
Belgian racing cyclist
Florent Manaudou
b. 1990
French swimmer (born 1990)
Marcell Ozuna
b. 1990
Dominican baseball player (born 1990)
Harmeet Singh (footballer)
b. 1990
Norwegian footballer (born 1990)
Notable Deaths
Roy Haynes
d. 2024
American jazz drummer and group leader (1925–2024)
John Horgan
d. 2024
Premier of British Columbia from 2017 to 2022
Song Jae-rim
d. 2024
South Korean actor and model (1985–2024)
Thomas E. Kurtz
d. 2024
American computer scientist and educator (1928–2024)
Timothy West
d. 2024
English actor (1934–2024)
Don Walsh
d. 2023
American oceanographer (1931–2023)
Stan Lee
d. 2018
American comic book writer (1922–2018)
Lupita Tovar
d. 2016
Mexican-American actress (1910–2016)
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz
d. 2016
Egyptian actor (1946–2016)
Márton Fülöp
d. 2015
Hungarian footballer (1983–2015)
Jihadi John
d. 2015
Kuwaiti-British terrorist and ISIS executioner (1988–2015)
Ravi Chopra
d. 2014
Indian filmmaker (1946–2014)
Warren Clarke
d. 2014
British actor (1947–2014)
Marge Roukema
d. 2014
American politician (1929–2014)
Konrad Rudnicki
d. 2013
Polish astronomer
Aleksandr Serebrov
d. 2013
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (1944–2013)
John Tavener
d. 2013
English composer (1944–2013)
Kurt Trampedach
d. 2013
Danish painter and sculptor (1943–2013)
Hans Hammarskiöld
d. 2012
Swedish photographer (1925–2012)
Henryk Górecki
d. 2010
Polish composer (1933–2010)
On This Day in History
All 62 ›
2022
A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra collide in mid-air over Dallas Executive Airport during an airshow, killing six.
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
2021
The Los Angeles Superior Court formally ends the 14-year conservatorship to pop singer Britney Spears.
Los Angeles County Superior Court
2020
The PlayStation 5 is released.
PlayStation 5
2017
The 7.3 Mw Kermanshah earthquake shakes the northern Iran–Iraq border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). At least 410 people are killed and over 7,000 are injured.
2017 Iran–Iraq earthquake
2015
Two suicide bombers detonate explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.
Suicide attack
2014
The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
Philae (spacecraft)
2014
An Armenian Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter is shot down by Azerbaijani forces, killing all three people on board.
Mil Mi-24
2011
Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the Euro area crisis.
Silvio Berlusconi
2011
A blast in Iran's Shahid Modarres missile base leads to the death of 17 of the Revolutionary Guards members, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.
Bid Kaneh explosion
2003
Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
Iraq War
2003
Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record of 501 kilometres per hour (311 mph) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
Shanghai maglev train
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.
American Airlines Flight 587
2001
War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
1999
The 7.2 Mw Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people are killed and almost 5,000 are injured.
1999 Düzce earthquake
1997
Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Ramzi Yousef
1996
A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349 in the deadliest mid-air collision to date.
Saudia
1995
Erdut Agreement regarding the peaceful resolution to the Croatian War of Independence is reached.
Erdut Agreement
1995
Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-74 to deliver the Mir Docking Module to the Russian space station Mir.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1991
Santa Cruz massacre: The Indonesian Army open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
Santa Cruz massacre
1990
Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
Crown prince