On This Day:
Wednesday November 12, 2014 This is the 316th day of the year, with 49 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: avocado The avocado can weigh up to four pounds and sometimes collapses its own tree.
Holidays Feast day of St. Benedict of Benevento, St. Machar or Mochumma, St. Astrik or Anastasius, St. Nilus the Elder, St. Cadwalader, St. Lebuin or Liafwine, St. Cunibert, St. Emilian Cucullatus, St. Cumian the Tall, St. Josephat of Polotsk, and St. Livinus.
Events 1799 - Andrew Ellicott Douglass, an early American astronomer, reported witnessing the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys -- the first meteor shower on record.
1859 - Jules Léotard, the daring young Frenchman on the flying trapeze, made his debut at the Cirque Napoléon.
1912 - The remains of English explorer Robert Scott and his companion travelers were found in Antarctica.
1918 - A day after World War I ends, Austria and Hungary were declared independent republics, and Emperor Charles I, ruler of Austria-Hungary since 1916, was forced to abdicate.
1920 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of Major League Baseball.
1927 - Josef Stalin took over the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.
1927 - Japan was admitted to the League of Nations.
1942 - The Battle of Guadalcanal began in World War II, which ended up being a major victory for the United States over Japan.
1948 - Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a World War II crimes tribunal.
1954 - Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in the New York Harbor in 1892.
1971 - Arches National Park was established in Moab, Utah.
1975 - Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired due to failing health, after more than 36 years on the Court.
1980 - Voyager I got within 78,000 miles of Saturn.
1982 - Yuri Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid Brezhnev as general secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee and president of the Supreme Soviet.
1990 - Two years after his father's death, Crown Prince Akihito was enthroned, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of New York's World Trade Center.
1999 - An earthquake struck western Turkey, killing more than 830 people.
2001 - An American Airlines flight crashed near New York's Kennedy Airport, killing 265 people.
2004 - A jury in Redwood City, CA. convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body into the San Francisco Bay.
Births 1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American social reformer, founder Women's Rights Convention.
1817 - Baha'u'llah, prophet-founder of Baha'i faith.
1840 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor.
1866 - Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary, founder of the Nationalist Party.
1889 - DeWitt Wallace, American author, the founder of "Reader's Digest."
1890 - Charles de Gaulle, French general and first president of the Fifth Republic.
1929 - Grace Kelly, American actress and, later, Princess of Monaco.
1934 - Charles Manson, infamous American convict and career criminal.
1945 - Neil Young, Canadian singer-songwriter.
Deaths 1916 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer.
1993 - H. R. Haldeman, White House chief of staff during the Richard M. Nixon administration and involved in the Watergate scandal.
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