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Sunday, January 25, 2015

November 12 - This day in History

November 12: General Interest
1799 : First meteor shower on record

On this day in 1799, Andrew Ellicott Douglass, an early American astronomer born in Vermont, witnesses the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys... read more


American Revolution
1775 : Abigail Adams leads rhetorical charge against Britain
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abigail-adams-leads-rhetorical-charge-against-britain


Automotive
1965 : Goldenrod sets the land-speed record
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/goldenrod-sets-the-land-speed-record


Civil War
1864 : The destruction of Atlanta begins
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-destruction-of-atlanta-begins


Cold War
1982 : Yuri Andropov assumes power in the Soviet Union
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/yuri-andropov-assumes-power-in-the-soviet-union


Crime
1996 : High school sweethearts murder their newborn child
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/high-school-sweethearts-murder-their-newborn-child

2004 : Scott Peterson convicted
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/scott-peterson-convicted


General Interest
1948 : Japanese war criminals sentenced
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japanese-war-criminals-sentenced

1980 : Voyager I flies near Saturn
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/voyager-i-flies-near-saturn

1990 : Akihito enthroned as emperor of Japan
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/akihito-enthroned-as-emperor-of-japan



Hollywood
1981 : William Holden, star of Sunset Boulevard and Network, dies
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/william-holden-star-of-sunset-boulevard-and-network-dies


Literary
1889 : DeWitt Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest, is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dewitt-wallace-founder-of-readers-digest-is-born


Music
2003 : Toby Keith has his third straight #1 country album with Shock'n Y'all
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/toby-keith-has-his-third-straight-1-country-album-with-shock39n-y39all


Old West
1867 : U.S. reconsiders war with Plains Indians
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-reconsiders-war-with-plains-indians


Presidential
1979 : Carter shuts down oil imports from Iran
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/carter-shuts-down-oil-imports-from-iran


Sports
1892 : Pudge Heffelfinger becomes first pro football player
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pudge-heffelfinger-becomes-first-pro-football-player


Vietnam War
1969 : Seymour Hersh breaks My Lai story
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/seymour-hersh-breaks-my-lai-story

1971 : Nixon sets new deadline for next troop withdrawal
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-sets-new-deadline-for-next-troop-withdrawal


World War I
1918 : Allied fleet enters Dardanelles
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/allied-fleet-enters-dardanelles


World War II
1944 : Brits sink the battleship Tirpitz
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/brits-sink-the-battleship-tirpitz

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