12th November anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1948
  • Japan
  • Former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese WWII leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.
  • 1999
  • "An earthquake in Düzce, western Turkey, killed 894 people and injured more than 5,000. Approximately 600,000 were left homeless"
  • 1642
  • Battle of Brentford
  • 1715
  • Battle of Preston
  • 1859
  • "Jules Léotard, the daring young man on the flying trapeze, made his debut at the Cirque Napoléon, Paris, in the worlds first trapeze performance"
  • 1918
  • Austria and Hungary were declared independent republics .
  • 1931
  • Elgar opens Abbey Road recording studios
  • 1933
  • Hugh Gray took the first known photographs of the Loch Ness Monster .
  • 1933
  • Hermann Göring announced that Nazi Germany planned to make Madagascar the ‘Jewish homeland’.
• Death
  • 1907
  • "Sir Lewis Morris died 1907 (born 1833). Immensely popular and very bad poet, whose long Epic of Hades (1877) sold 50,000 copies. 'He had, sometimes, a faculty — which in a satirist, would have been admirable' wrote the critic George Saintsbury, 'of writin"