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Historical Events on November 12

  • Battle of Gabon

    1940

    World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces.

  • Ski troops

    1941

    World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 °C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.

  • Sudan

    1956

    Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.

  • My Lai Massacre

    1969

    Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.

  • Voyager I

    1980

    The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.

  • Yuri Andropov

    1982

    USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.

  • War in Afghanistan (2001-present)

    2001

    War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.

  • 2003 invasion of Iraq

    2003

    Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, 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.

  • European sovereign debt crisis

    2011

    Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the European sovereign debt crisis.

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