MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2007

Today is Monday, November 12, the 316th day of 2007. There are 49 days left in the year.

324 B.C. _ The origin of Era of Alexander

607 _ Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic pope

1775 _ Gen. Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks

1915 _ Britain annexes Gilbert and Ellice Islands

1918 _ Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic

1927 _ Trotsky expelled from the Soviet Communist Party; Stalin becomes an undisputed dictator

1933 _ Nazis receive 92 percent of vote in Germany

1948 _ Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by the war crimes tribunal

1977 _ New Orleans elects the first black mayor, Ernest (Dutch) Morial

1979 _ The U.S. halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets

1982 _ Yuri V. Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader

1989 _ Brazil holds first free presidential election in 29 years