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Old 11-12-2006, 07:18 AM
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November 12th
1035 ~ Death of King Canute.

1833 ~ Birthday of Alexander Borodin, Russian composer.

1840 ~ Birthday of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor.

1942 ~ The WWII naval Battle of Guadalcanal began.

1944 ~ The German battleship Tirpitz was sunk off the coast of Norway.

1954 ~ Ellis Island closed.

1955 ~ Hovercraft patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell.

1970 ~ The famous exploding whale incident.

1990 ~ Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

2001 ~ Taliban forces abandoned Kabul ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
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