WHAT HAPPENED ON 12. NOVEMBER
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Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanus Argyrus. (12. November 1028)

Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush. (12. November 1330)

Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament. (12. November 1439)

The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism. (12. November 1555)

Sebastian Viscaino lands at and names San Diego, California. (12. November 1602)

Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined. (12. November 1793)

William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association. (12. November 1892)

The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan; the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations. (12. November 1893)

Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic. (12. November 1905)

King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after it's liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule. (12. November 1912)

The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. (12. November 1912)

Austria becomes a republic. (12. November 1918)

Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo. (12. November 1920)

Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union. (12. November 1927)

SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned. (12. November 1928)

Hugh Gray takes the first known photos alleged to be of the Loch Ness Monster. (12. November 1933)

In California, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic. (12. November 1936)

World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France forces. (12. November 1940)

World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers. (12. November 1940)

World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 °C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city. (12. November 1941)