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On This Day · The 316th day of the year

November 12

25 years on from American Airlines Flight 587, November 12 is a date with an anniversary worth pausing on. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

♏ZodiacScorpio ◈BirthstoneTopaz ❀Birth flowerChrysanthemum

Scorpio is the sign for November 12 — read more on the Scorpio page, or see November's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on November 12?

November 12 is the 316th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1892 and 2011. Famous people born on November 12 include Neil Young, Luguelín Santos and Grace Kelly.

Released on November 12

Movies, games, albums & shows

2025

  • Game Winter Burrow
  • Movie Now You See Me: Now You Don't

2024

  • Game The Rise of the Golden Idol
  • Game Farming Simulator 25

2021

  • Game Shin Megami Tensei V

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1892

    Pudge Heffelfinger

  2. 1940

    World War II

  3. 1956

    Suez Crisis

  4. 1970

    1970 Bhola cyclone

  5. 1970

    Oregon Department of Transportation

  6. 1990

    Tim Berners-Lee

  7. 1991

    Santa Cruz massacre

  8. 1996

    Saudia

  9. 2001

    American Airlines Flight 587

  10. 2011

    Bid Kaneh explosion

Famous birthday twins

Born on November 12

Neil Young

b. 1945

Luguelín Santos

b. 1992

Grace Kelly

b. 1929

Sun Yat-sen

b. 1866

Auguste Rodin

b. 1840

Nadia Comăneci

b. 1961

Anne Hathaway

b. 1982

Loriot

b. 1923

Deaths

  • 1994Wilma Rudolph
  • 1972Rudolf Friml
  • 1971Hanna Neumann
  • 1969Liu Shaoqi
  • 1742Friedrich Hoffmann
  • 973Burchard III, Duke of Swabia

Holidays & observances

  • —Birth of Sun Yat-Sen, also Doctors' Day and Cultural Renaissance Day. (Republic of China)
  • —Christian feast day: Arsatius
  • —Christian feast day: Astrik (or Anastasius) of Pannonhalma
  • —Christian feast day: Cumméne Fota
  • —Christian feast day: Cunibert
  • —Christian feast day: Emilian of Cogolla
  • —Christian feast day: Imerius of Immertal
  • —Christian feast day: Josaphat Kuntsevych (Roman Catholic Church, Greek Catholic Church)

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

About the author

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