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Tuesday, 11 November 2014
On this day... November 12:
On this day...
November 12
:
Birth of Bahá'u'lláh
, a
holy day
in the
Bahá'í Faith
1330
– Led by
voivode
Basarab I
,
Wallachian
forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the
Battle of Posada
.
1892
–
William Heffelfinger
(pictured)
was paid $525 by the
Allegheny Athletic Association
, becoming the first professional
American football
player on record.
1944
–
Second World War
: The
Royal Air Force
sank the
German battleship
Tirpitz
on the
ninth attempt
, resulting in about 1,000 deaths of the sailors on board.
1996
– A
Saudi Arabian Airlines
Boeing 747 and a
Kazakhstan Airlines
cargo plane
collided in mid-air
near
New Delhi
, killing 349 people.
2006
– Although the Georgian government declared it illegal,
South Ossetia
held
a referendum on independence
, with about 99 percent of voters supporting, to preserve the region's status as a
de facto
independent state.
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