11-12-2005, 06:27 AM
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November 12th
1035 ~ Death of King Canute.
1833 ~ Birthday of Alexander Borodin, Russian composer.
1840 ~ Birthday of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor.
1944 ~ World War II: The German battleship Tirpitz sunk off the coast of Norway.
1954 ~ Ellis Island closes.
1955 ~ Hovercraft design patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell.
1970 ~ The famous exploding whale incident.
1982 ~ Yuri Andropov became the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
1990 ~ Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
2001 ~ Taliban forces abandoned Kabul ahead of advancing Northern Alliance troops.
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