Wikipedia: November 12

November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining.

Births:

1817: Mírzá Husayn-'Alí (Bahaullah, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith)
1840: Auguste Rodin (sculptor)
1903: Jack Oakie (Lewis Offield) actor
1908: [Harry Blackmun]? (Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1970]: wrote the majority opinion in Roe vs. Wade)
1920: Richard Quine actor
1922: Sunset Carson (Michael Harrison) actor
1922: Kim Hunter (Janet Cole) (Academy Award-winning actress: A Streetcar Named Desire [1951]; Requiem for a Heavyweight, Planet of the Apes series, The Edge of Night, Backstairs at the White House)
1929: [Grace Kelly]? (Princess Grace of Monaco) (Academy Award-winning actress)
1930: Ann Flood (actress: The Edge of Night)
1943 - Brian Hyland (singer: Sealed with a Kiss, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini, Let Me Belong to You)
1944 - Booker T. Jones (musician: group: Booker T and the MG's: Green Onions, Time is Tight)
1945 - [Neil Young]? (singer, songwriter, musician: Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Heart of Gold, Philadelphia; group: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: LP: Deja Vu; Buffalo Springfield: For What It's Worth)
1968 - Sammy Sosa, baseball player

Events:

2001 - American Airlines flight 587, an Airbus A300 that can hold 275 passengers, crashed shortly after 9 a.m. in the Queens section of New York City. The flight had just taken off for the Dominican Republic. See NY planecrash III.

Deaths:

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December