WHAT HAPPENED ON 12. NOVEMBER
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Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. (12. November 1990)

Dili Massacre: Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor. (12. November 1991)

The first Ultimate Fighting Championship event, UFC 1, is held in Denver, Colorado. (12. November 1993)

A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date. (12. November 1996)

Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. (12. November 1997)

The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale. (12. November 1999)

In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground. (12. November 2001)

Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops. (12. November 2001)

Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base. (12. November 2003)

Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles. (12. November 2003)

Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the European sovereign debt crisis. (12. November 2011)