SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Today is Saturday, November 12, the 316th day of 2011. There are 49 days left in the year.

324 B.C. ― Origin of Era of Alexander

1892 ― Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes first pro football player

1910 ― First movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon

1927 ― Trotsky expelled from Soviet Communist Party; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator

1933 ― First known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken

1933 ― Nazis receive 92 percent of vote in Germany

1941 ― Germany's drive to take Moscow halted

1948 ― Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal

1956 ― Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, first sighted

1979 ― U.S. halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets