November 12

Shopping on line can be easy, simple and save you lots of money. It can also take a lot of your time, frustrate you, and result in unwanted purchases. Now the same can be said for regular high street shopping, but with the vast opportunity presented by the Internet it will pay you to spend a few minutes reading this and understanding how to better optimize your November 12 shopping experience:

1. Compare - without doubt the biggest advantage that the November 12 offers shoppers today is the ability to compare thousands of November 12 at a time. This is a great thing, but not necessarily all the time! Too much can be daunting at times so take advantage of the great comparison sites and where possible let them do the hard work for you.

2. Research - if it has been said it will be on the internet. Ignorance is no longer a justifiable reason for buying the wrong thing. Take the time to research in detail everything that you could possible want to know about

3. Testimonials - don't know anybody that has bought a November 12? Wrong! If the November 12 is good the internet will let you know. Use the Internet as a friend and get testimonials before you buy.

4. Questions - Got a question about November 12 then search the Forums, FAQ's, Blogs etc. Don't be afraid to ask .....

5. Reputation - Never heard of the company selling November 12? Don't worry, no reason why you should know every company in the world, but you know someone that does! Use the internet to find out what people are saying about November 12 and build up a picture of their reputation for sales, returns, customer service, delivery etc.

6. Returns - still worried that even after all of the above your November 12 wont be what you want? Check out the returns policy. There is so much competition now that someone, somewhere is bound to offer the terms that you are comfortable with.

7. Feedback - happy with your November 12 then let people know, after all you are depending on others people input in your buying decision, so why not give a little back.

8. Security - check for the yellow padlock on the November 12 site before you buy, and the s after http:/ /i.e. https:// = a secure site

9. Contact - got a question about November 12, or want to leave a comment then check out the sites contact page. Reputable companies have them and respond.

10. Payment - ready to pay for your November 12, then use your credit card or PayPal! Be aware of companies that don't accept them, there may be genuine reasons but given the huge amount of choice you have when buying online there is no reason at all not to buy via credit card or PayPal.

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Events

764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
1028 - Future Byzantine emperor Zoe (empress) marries Romanus III according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire
1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the List of Parliaments of England.
1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1893 - The treaty of the Durand Line was signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan and which has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister-nations.
1905 - (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds referendum in favour of monarchy over republic.
1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
1918 - Austria becomes a republic.
1920 - Italy and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia sign the Treaty of Rapallo (1920).
1922 - Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., was founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
1927 - The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
1934 - The musical Babes in Toyland (1934 film) debuts, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as comic relief (see Laurel and Hardy).
1936 - In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1938 - Hermann Göring announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
1941 - World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° Celsius and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing Germany forces near the city.
1941 - A Soviet cruiser "Chervona Ukraina" was destroyed during the battle of Sevastopol
1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and United States forces begins near Guadalcanal (Pacific Ocean island), will last for three days.
1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the Germany battleship German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway
1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
1969 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now -infamous exploding whale incident
1971 - Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 United States troops from Vietnam.
1979 - Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
1980 - The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn (planet) and takes first images of its rings.
1981 - The 2nd shuttle mission of Columbia 2. It was the 1st time a spacecraft was launched twice.
1982 - In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1982 - Lech Wałęsa, Solidarity leader, is released from a Poland prison after eleven months.
1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1991 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
1993 - Decree of President of Kazakhstan "About introducing Kazakhstani tenge" was issued.
1993 - The first Ultimate Fighting Championship is held in Denver, Colorado.
1996 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. See Saudia Flight 763.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
1998 - Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.
1999 - Düzce earthquake in Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
2001 - War in Afghanistan (2001–present)#The fall of Kabul: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2003 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, 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.
2006 - The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a South Ossetian independence referendum, 2006 on independence from Georgia (country).

Births

1493 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
1528 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)
1606 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)
1615 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
1651 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican nun
1729 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
1755 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (d. 1813)
1795 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (d. 1856)
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)
1817 - Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious figure (d. 1892)
1833 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (d. 1887)
1840 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
1842 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1848 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)
1850 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
1866 - Sun Yat-sen, 1st President of the Republic of China (d. 1925)
1881 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1886 - Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
1889 - DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (d. 1981)
1896 - Salim Ali (ornithologist), Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
1898 - Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)
1903 - Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
1908 - Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1999)
1908 - Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (d. 1946)
1911 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
1915 - Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (d. 1980)
1916 - Jean Papineau-Couture, French Canadian composer (d. 2000)
1916 - Paul Emery, British racing driver (d. 1993)
1917 - Jo Stafford, American singer
1920 - Richard Quine, American actor (d. 1989)
1922 - Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)
1923 - Vicco von Bülow, German film director
1927 - Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
1929 - Michael Ende, German writer (d. 1995)
1929 - Grace Kelly (d. 1982)
1930 - Ann Flood, American actress
1931 - Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer (The Four Seasons (group))
1934 - Charles Manson, American cult leader
1936 - Mills Lane, American judge and boxing referee
1936 - Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
1938 - Denis DeJordy, Canadian ice hockey player
1939 - Ruby Nash Curtis, American singer (Ruby & the Romantics)
1939 - Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
1940 - Michel Audet, Québécois economist and politician
1940 - Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician
1943 - Brian Hyland, American singer
1943 - Wallace Shawn, American actor and playwright
1944 - Booker T. Jones, American musician and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's)
1944 - Al Michaels, American television sportscaster
1945 - Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author
1945 - Neil Young, Canadian singer and musician
1947 - Ron Bryant, American baseball player
1947 - Patrice Leconte, French film director and screenwriter
1948 - Cliff Harris, American football player
1953 - Vasilis Karras, Greek singer
1958 - Megan Mullally, American actress
1961 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast
1961 - Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
1961 - Michaela Paetsch, American violinist
1962 - Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist
1962 - Mark Hunter (hockey player), Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Brix Smith, American musician and songwriter (The Fall (band), The Adult Net)
1964 - David Ellefson, American musician (Megadeth)
1965 - Lex Lang, American voice actor
1966 - David Schwimmer, American actor and director
1967 - Michael Moorer, American boxer
1967 - Grant Nicholas, British singer (Feeder (band))
1968 - Glenn Gilberti, American professional wrestler
1968 - Sammy Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball player
1968 - Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride)
1969 - Ian Bremmer, American political scientist
1969 - Johnny Gosch, American kidnap victim
1969 - Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter
1970 - Donna Adamo, American female professional wrestler
1970 - Tonya Harding, American figure skater
1970 - Craig Parker, New Zealand actor
1970 - Harvey Stephens, British child actor
1972 - Vassilis Tsiartas, Greek footballer
1973 - Mayte Garcia, American dancer
1973 - Radha Mitchell, Australian actress
1973 - Tara Strong, Canadian voice actress
1974 - Tamala Jones, American actress
1975 - Nina Brosh, Israeli model and actress
1975 - Angela Watson, American actress
1976 - Tevin Campbell, American Rhythm and blues musician
1976 - Judith Holofernes, German singer (Wir sind Helden)
1976 - Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
1977 - Dalene Kurtis, American Playboy model
1977 - Benni McCarthy, South African footballer
1978 - Andrew Kinlochan, English singer and musician
1978 - Ashley Williams, American actress
1979 - Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler
1979 - Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
1980 - Trent Acid, American professional wrestler
1980 - Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
1981 - Dudley Campbell, English football player
1982 - Anne Hathaway (actress), American actress
1984 - Omarion, American Rhythm and blues musician
1984 - Sandara Park, South Korean actor
1984 - Natalia Tena, English actress
1986 - Evan Yo, Taiwanese pop music singer
1987 - Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player

Deaths

607 - Boniface III
1035 - Canute the Great
1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
1434 - King Louis III of Naples
1555 - Stephen Gardiner, English statesman
1567 - Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (b. 1493)
1595 - John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)
1667 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598)
1671 - Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (b. 1612)
1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1757 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
1836 - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
1916 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)
1939 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
1941 - Abe Reles, American mobster (b. 1907)
1944 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
1948 - Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
1955 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
1965 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
1972 - Rudolf Friml, composer of operettas (b. 1879)
1976 - Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
1984 - Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
1990 - Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
1993 - H. R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926)
1994 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
1997 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
2000 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928)
2000 - Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
2001 - Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
2003 - Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
2003 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
2003 - Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
2003 - Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic (band), Power Station (band)) (b. 1954)
2004 - Tito Francona, baseball player (b. 1933)
2005 - William G. Adams, former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (b. 1923)
2006 - General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909)

Holidays and observances

Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day, Birth of Bahá'u'lláh
National Holiday: Birth of Sun Yat-Sen (observed in China and Taiwan)

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

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Events

764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
1028 - Future Byzantine emperor Zoe (empress) marries Romanus III according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire
1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the List of Parliaments of England.
1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1893 - The treaty of the Durand Line was signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan and which has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister-nations.
1905 - (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds referendum in favour of monarchy over republic.
1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
1918 - Austria becomes a republic.
1920 - Italy and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia sign the Treaty of Rapallo (1920).
1922 - Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., was founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
1927 - The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
1934 - The musical Babes in Toyland (1934 film) debuts, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as comic relief (see Laurel and Hardy).
1936 - In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1938 - Hermann Göring announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
1941 - World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° Celsius and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing Germany forces near the city.
1941 - A Soviet cruiser "Chervona Ukraina" was destroyed during the battle of Sevastopol
1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and United States forces begins near Guadalcanal (Pacific Ocean island), will last for three days.
1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the Germany battleship German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway
1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
1969 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now -infamous exploding whale incident
1971 - Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 United States troops from Vietnam.
1979 - Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
1980 - The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn (planet) and takes first images of its rings.
1981 - The 2nd shuttle mission of Columbia 2. It was the 1st time a spacecraft was launched twice.
1982 - In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1982 - Lech Wałęsa, Solidarity leader, is released from a Poland prison after eleven months.
1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1991 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
1993 - Decree of President of Kazakhstan "About introducing Kazakhstani tenge" was issued.
1993 - The first Ultimate Fighting Championship is held in Denver, Colorado.
1996 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. See Saudia Flight 763.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
1998 - Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.
1999 - Düzce earthquake in Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
2001 - War in Afghanistan (2001–present)#The fall of Kabul: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2003 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, 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.
2006 - The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a South Ossetian independence referendum, 2006 on independence from Georgia (country).

Births

1493 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
1528 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)
1606 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)
1615 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
1651 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican nun
1729 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
1755 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (d. 1813)
1795 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (d. 1856)
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)
1817 - Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious figure (d. 1892)
1833 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (d. 1887)
1840 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
1842 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1848 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)
1850 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
1866 - Sun Yat-sen, 1st President of the Republic of China (d. 1925)
1881 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1886 - Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
1889 - DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (d. 1981)
1896 - Salim Ali (ornithologist), Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
1898 - Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)
1903 - Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
1908 - Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1999)
1908 - Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (d. 1946)
1911 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
1915 - Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (d. 1980)
1916 - Jean Papineau-Couture, French Canadian composer (d. 2000)
1916 - Paul Emery, British racing driver (d. 1993)
1917 - Jo Stafford, American singer
1920 - Richard Quine, American actor (d. 1989)
1922 - Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)
1923 - Vicco von Bülow, German film director
1927 - Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
1929 - Michael Ende, German writer (d. 1995)
1929 - Grace Kelly (d. 1982)
1930 - Ann Flood, American actress
1931 - Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer (The Four Seasons (group))
1934 - Charles Manson, American cult leader
1936 - Mills Lane, American judge and boxing referee
1936 - Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
1938 - Denis DeJordy, Canadian ice hockey player
1939 - Ruby Nash Curtis, American singer (Ruby & the Romantics)
1939 - Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
1940 - Michel Audet, Québécois economist and politician
1940 - Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician
1943 - Brian Hyland, American singer
1943 - Wallace Shawn, American actor and playwright
1944 - Booker T. Jones, American musician and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's)
1944 - Al Michaels, American television sportscaster
1945 - Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author
1945 - Neil Young, Canadian singer and musician
1947 - Ron Bryant, American baseball player
1947 - Patrice Leconte, French film director and screenwriter
1948 - Cliff Harris, American football player
1953 - Vasilis Karras, Greek singer
1958 - Megan Mullally, American actress
1961 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast
1961 - Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
1961 - Michaela Paetsch, American violinist
1962 - Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist
1962 - Mark Hunter (hockey player), Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Brix Smith, American musician and songwriter (The Fall (band), The Adult Net)
1964 - David Ellefson, American musician (Megadeth)
1965 - Lex Lang, American voice actor
1966 - David Schwimmer, American actor and director
1967 - Michael Moorer, American boxer
1967 - Grant Nicholas, British singer (Feeder (band))
1968 - Glenn Gilberti, American professional wrestler
1968 - Sammy Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball player
1968 - Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride)
1969 - Ian Bremmer, American political scientist
1969 - Johnny Gosch, American kidnap victim
1969 - Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter
1970 - Donna Adamo, American female professional wrestler
1970 - Tonya Harding, American figure skater
1970 - Craig Parker, New Zealand actor
1970 - Harvey Stephens, British child actor
1972 - Vassilis Tsiartas, Greek footballer
1973 - Mayte Garcia, American dancer
1973 - Radha Mitchell, Australian actress
1973 - Tara Strong, Canadian voice actress
1974 - Tamala Jones, American actress
1975 - Nina Brosh, Israeli model and actress
1975 - Angela Watson, American actress
1976 - Tevin Campbell, American Rhythm and blues musician
1976 - Judith Holofernes, German singer (Wir sind Helden)
1976 - Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
1977 - Dalene Kurtis, American Playboy model
1977 - Benni McCarthy, South African footballer
1978 - Andrew Kinlochan, English singer and musician
1978 - Ashley Williams, American actress
1979 - Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler
1979 - Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
1980 - Trent Acid, American professional wrestler
1980 - Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
1981 - Dudley Campbell, English football player
1982 - Anne Hathaway (actress), American actress
1984 - Omarion, American Rhythm and blues musician
1984 - Sandara Park, South Korean actor
1984 - Natalia Tena, English actress
1986 - Evan Yo, Taiwanese pop music singer
1987 - Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player

Deaths

607 - Boniface III
1035 - Canute the Great
1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
1434 - King Louis III of Naples
1555 - Stephen Gardiner, English statesman
1567 - Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (b. 1493)
1595 - John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)
1667 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598)
1671 - Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (b. 1612)
1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1757 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
1836 - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
1916 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)
1939 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
1941 - Abe Reles, American mobster (b. 1907)
1944 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
1948 - Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
1955 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
1965 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
1972 - Rudolf Friml, composer of operettas (b. 1879)
1976 - Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
1984 - Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
1990 - Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
1993 - H. R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926)
1994 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
1997 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
2000 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928)
2000 - Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
2001 - Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
2003 - Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
2003 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
2003 - Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
2003 - Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic (band), Power Station (band)) (b. 1954)
2004 - Tito Francona, baseball player (b. 1933)
2005 - William G. Adams, former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (b. 1923)
2006 - General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909)

Holidays and observances

Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day, Birth of Bahá'u'lláh
National Holiday: Birth of Sun Yat-Sen (observed in China and Taiwan)

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

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