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November 12
1927 - Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became ruler of the Soviet Union.
1936 - The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a telegraph key in Washington, D.C., giving the green light to traffic.
1942 - The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal begins.
1948 - Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.
1954 - Ellis Island stops serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. More than 20 million immigrants went through Ellis Island in its 62 years of operation.
1970 - A cyclone and resulting tidal wave hit East Pakistan, killing more than 200,000 people.
1981 - The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time, becoming the first space vehicle to be used more than once.
1982 - Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
1985 - Xavier Suarez was elected Miami's first Cuban-American mayor.
1987 - The American Medical Association issued a policy statement saying it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person had AIDS or was HIV-positive.
1990 - Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted in New York.
1998 - Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley filed a $433 million-dollar lawsuit against the firearms industry, declaring that it had created a public nuisance by flooding the streets with weapons deliberately marketed to criminals. (A judge dismissed the lawsuit in 2000; an appeals court ruled in 2002 that the city of Chicago could proceed; but the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit in 2004.)
1999 - President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products.
2001 - American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 headed to the Dominican Republic, crashed after takeoff from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 people on board and five people on the ground.
2004 - A jury convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay. (Peterson was later sentenced to death.)
2009 - Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre.
2011 - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi resigned.
2011 - The Arab League voted to suspend Syria over the country's bloody crackdown on protesters.
2014 - Landing with a bounce after traveling 4 billion miles, a European Space Agency probe, Philae, made history by successfully reaching the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet.
2018 - Stan Lee, the Marvel Comics writer and publisher who revolutionized the comic book and developed superhero characters that made billions for Hollywood, died at the age of 95.
Birthdays
27 - Macey Cruthird (actress)
27 - Erika Costell (model)
31 - Russell Westbrook (basketball player)
34 - Arianny Celeste (model)
34 - Rocky Barnes (model)
37 - Anne Hathaway (actress)
39 - Ryan Gosling (actor)
39 - Jessica Robertson (reality star)
40 - Cote de Pablo (actress)
41 - Ashley Williams (actress)
43 - Tevin Campbell (actor)
45 - Angela Watson (actress)
45 - Tamala Jones (actress)
45 - Lourdes Benedicto (actress)
46 - Radha Mitchell (actress)
48 - Rebecca Wisocky (actress)
49 - Tonya Harding (figure skater)
51 - Sammy Sosa (baseball player)
56 - Sam Lloyd (actor)
58 - Nadia Comaneci (gymnast)
60 - Vincent Irizarry (actor)
61 - Megan Mullally (actress)
74 - Neil Young (singer)
75 - Al Michaels (sportscaster)
76 - Wallace Shawn (actor)
76 - Brian Hyland (singer)
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Today in Sports History - November 12
1892 - William "Pudge" Heffelfinger became the first professional football player when he was paid a $500 bonus for helping the Allegheny Athletic Association beat the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
1920 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of Major League Baseball.
1933 - In Philadelphia, the first Sunday football game was played.
1953 - The NFL policy of blacking out home games was upheld by Judge Allan K. Grim of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.
1967 - The Detroit Lions set a National Football League (NFL) record when they fumbled the ball 10 times. They only lost possession five of the ten times.
1970 - After playing in their 11th game, the Cleveland Cavaliers pick up their first win in franchise history, beating the Portland Trail Blazers 105-103.
1972 - Don Shula, coach of the Miami Dolphins, became the first NFL head coach to win 100 regular season games in 10 seasons.
1992 - New York Yankees pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for the 8th time.
1995 - Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins breaks Fran Tarkenton's NFL record for career passing yards with 47,003.
2012 - Joe Sakic, Mats Sundin, Pavel Bure and Adam Oates are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
1927 - Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became ruler of the Soviet Union.
1936 - The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a telegraph key in Washington, D.C., giving the green light to traffic.
1942 - The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal begins.
1948 - Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.
1954 - Ellis Island stops serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. More than 20 million immigrants went through Ellis Island in its 62 years of operation.
1970 - A cyclone and resulting tidal wave hit East Pakistan, killing more than 200,000 people.
1981 - The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time, becoming the first space vehicle to be used more than once.
1982 - Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
1985 - Xavier Suarez was elected Miami's first Cuban-American mayor.
1987 - The American Medical Association issued a policy statement saying it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person had AIDS or was HIV-positive.
1990 - Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted in New York.
1998 - Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley filed a $433 million-dollar lawsuit against the firearms industry, declaring that it had created a public nuisance by flooding the streets with weapons deliberately marketed to criminals. (A judge dismissed the lawsuit in 2000; an appeals court ruled in 2002 that the city of Chicago could proceed; but the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit in 2004.)
1999 - President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products.
2001 - American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 headed to the Dominican Republic, crashed after takeoff from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 people on board and five people on the ground.
2004 - A jury convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay. (Peterson was later sentenced to death.)
2009 - Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre.
2011 - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi resigned.
2011 - The Arab League voted to suspend Syria over the country's bloody crackdown on protesters.
2014 - Landing with a bounce after traveling 4 billion miles, a European Space Agency probe, Philae, made history by successfully reaching the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet.
2018 - Stan Lee, the Marvel Comics writer and publisher who revolutionized the comic book and developed superhero characters that made billions for Hollywood, died at the age of 95.
Birthdays
27 - Macey Cruthird (actress)
27 - Erika Costell (model)
31 - Russell Westbrook (basketball player)
34 - Arianny Celeste (model)
34 - Rocky Barnes (model)
37 - Anne Hathaway (actress)
39 - Ryan Gosling (actor)
39 - Jessica Robertson (reality star)
40 - Cote de Pablo (actress)
41 - Ashley Williams (actress)
43 - Tevin Campbell (actor)
45 - Angela Watson (actress)
45 - Tamala Jones (actress)
45 - Lourdes Benedicto (actress)
46 - Radha Mitchell (actress)
48 - Rebecca Wisocky (actress)
49 - Tonya Harding (figure skater)
51 - Sammy Sosa (baseball player)
56 - Sam Lloyd (actor)
58 - Nadia Comaneci (gymnast)
60 - Vincent Irizarry (actor)
61 - Megan Mullally (actress)
74 - Neil Young (singer)
75 - Al Michaels (sportscaster)
76 - Wallace Shawn (actor)
76 - Brian Hyland (singer)
==================================
Today in Sports History - November 12
1892 - William "Pudge" Heffelfinger became the first professional football player when he was paid a $500 bonus for helping the Allegheny Athletic Association beat the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
1920 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of Major League Baseball.
1933 - In Philadelphia, the first Sunday football game was played.
1953 - The NFL policy of blacking out home games was upheld by Judge Allan K. Grim of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.
1967 - The Detroit Lions set a National Football League (NFL) record when they fumbled the ball 10 times. They only lost possession five of the ten times.
1970 - After playing in their 11th game, the Cleveland Cavaliers pick up their first win in franchise history, beating the Portland Trail Blazers 105-103.
1972 - Don Shula, coach of the Miami Dolphins, became the first NFL head coach to win 100 regular season games in 10 seasons.
1992 - New York Yankees pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for the 8th time.
1995 - Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins breaks Fran Tarkenton's NFL record for career passing yards with 47,003.
2012 - Joe Sakic, Mats Sundin, Pavel Bure and Adam Oates are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.