Today is Thursday, November 12, the 316th day of 2015. There are 49 days left in the year.
1910 ― 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1918 ― Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
1919 ― Ross & Smith start a one-month flight from London to Australia
1927 ― Trotsky expelled from Soviet Communist Party; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1933 ― Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
1941 ― Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
1948 ― Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1979 ― U.S. halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
1984 ― Paul McCartney releases “We All Stand Together”
1984 ― Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
1987 ― Heavy snow closes schools from D.C. to Maine
1989 ― Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years