November 12
1927 - Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became ruler of the Soviet Union.
1936 - The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a telegraph key in Washington, D.C., giving the green light to traffic.
1942 - The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal began.
1948 - Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.
1954 - Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. More than 20 million immigrants were processed through the facility in its 62 years of operation.
1969 - News of the My Lai Massacre carried out by U.S. forces in South Vietnam in 1968 was broken by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.
1970 - A cyclone and tidal wave hit East Pakistan, killing more than 200,000 people.
1975 - Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas announced his retirement because of failing health, ending a record 36-year term.
1981 - The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time, becoming the first space vehicle to be used more than once.
1982 - Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
1985 - Xavier Suarez was elected Miami's first Cuban-American mayor.
1987 - The American Medical Association issued a policy statement saying it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person had AIDS or was HIV-positive.
1990 - Akihito becomes emperor of Japan.
1996 - A Saudi Boeing 747 jetliner collided shortly after takeoff from New Delhi, India, with a Kazak Ilyushin-76 cargo plane, killing 349 people.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted in New York.
1999 - President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products.
2001 - An American Airlines flight crashed near New York's Kennedy airport, killing 265 people.
2004 - A jury convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay. (Peterson was later sentenced to death.)
2009 - Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre.
2011 - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi resigned.
2011 - The Arab League voted to suspend Syria over the country's bloody crackdown on protesters.
2016 - Tens of thousands of people marched in the streets across the United States, staging the fourth day of protests against Donald Trump's surprise victory as president.
2019 - Venice saw its worst flooding in more than 50 years, with the water reaching 6.14 feet above average sea level; damage was estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
2020 - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, a broad coalition of top government and industry officials, rejected President Donald Trump's claims of election fraud, saying that the election was "the most secure in American history" and that there was "no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes or was in any way compromised."
2020 - Federal health officials reached an agreement with pharmacies across the U.S. to distribute free coronavirus vaccines once the vaccines were approved and available.
Birthdays
29 - Macey Cruthird (actress)
29 - Erika Costell (model)
33 - Russell Westbrook (basketball player)
39 - Anne Hathaway (actress)
41 - Ryan Gosling (actor)
42 - Cote de Pablo (actress)
43 - Ashley Williams (actress)
45 - Tevin Campbell (singer)
47 - Angela Watson (actress)
47 - Tamala Jones (actress)
50 - Rebecca Wisocky (actress)
51 - Tonya Harding (figure skater)
53 - Sammy Sosa (baseball player)
60 - Nadia Comaneci (gymnast)
62 - Vincent Irizarry (actor)
63 - Megan Mullally (actress)
71 - Barbara Fairchild (singer)
76 - Neil Young (singer)
77 - Al Michaels (sportscaster)
78 - Bryan Highland (singer)
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Today in Sports History - November 12
1892 - William "Pudge" Heffelfinger became the first professional football player when he was paid a $500 bonus for helping the Allegheny Athletic Association beat the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
1892 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 12-0.
1896 - Butte defeats Nebraska 20-6.
1898 - Drake defeats Nebraska 6-5.
1904 - Haskell defeats Nebraska 14-6.
1910 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 24-0.
1920 - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of Major League Baseball.
1921 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 28-0.
1927 - Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 21-13.
1932 - Nebraska and Pittsburgh play to a 0-0 tie.
1938 - #3 Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 19-0.
1949 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 7-0.
1953 - The NFL policy of blacking out home games was upheld by Judge Allan K. Grim of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.
1955 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 37-20.
1960 - Oklahoma State defeats Nebraska 7-6.
1966 - #4 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 21-6.
1967 - The Detroit Lions set a National Football League (NFL) record when they fumbled the ball 10 times. They only lost possession five of the ten times.
1970 - The Cleveland Cavaliers record their first NBA victory, 105-103 over the Portland Trailblazers.
1972 - Don Shula, coach of the Miami Dolphins, became the first NFL head coach to win 100 regular season games in 10 seasons.
1975 - Tom Seaver of the New York Mets wins his third Cy Young Award.
1977 - #12 Nebraska defeats Kansas 52-7.
1983 - #1 Nebraska defeats Kansas 67-13.
1988 - #7 Nebraska defeats #19 Colorado 7-0.
1990 - "The Body Bag Game" occurs- after Philadelphia Eagles coach Buddy Ryan threatens beating the Washington Redskins so badly "they'll have to be carted off in body bags" the Eagles defense score 3 touchdowns winning 28–14, knocking 8 Redskins out of the game.
1994 - #1 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 28-12.
1995 - Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins breaks Fran Tarkenton's NFL career passing record of 47,003 yards.
2005 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 27-25.
2011 - #19 Nebraska defeats #12 Penn State 17-14.
2016 - #21 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 24-17.
2019 - Former Houston Astros pitcher Mike Fiers reveals the team secretly stole signs via camera from visiting teams from 2015 through 2017; communications between opposing pitchers and catchers were intercepted and relayed to Houston batters.
1927 - Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became ruler of the Soviet Union.
1936 - The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a telegraph key in Washington, D.C., giving the green light to traffic.
1942 - The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal began.
1948 - Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.
1954 - Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. More than 20 million immigrants were processed through the facility in its 62 years of operation.
1969 - News of the My Lai Massacre carried out by U.S. forces in South Vietnam in 1968 was broken by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.
1970 - A cyclone and tidal wave hit East Pakistan, killing more than 200,000 people.
1975 - Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas announced his retirement because of failing health, ending a record 36-year term.
1981 - The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time, becoming the first space vehicle to be used more than once.
1982 - Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
1985 - Xavier Suarez was elected Miami's first Cuban-American mayor.
1987 - The American Medical Association issued a policy statement saying it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person had AIDS or was HIV-positive.
1990 - Akihito becomes emperor of Japan.
1996 - A Saudi Boeing 747 jetliner collided shortly after takeoff from New Delhi, India, with a Kazak Ilyushin-76 cargo plane, killing 349 people.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted in New York.
1999 - President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products.
2001 - An American Airlines flight crashed near New York's Kennedy airport, killing 265 people.
2004 - A jury convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay. (Peterson was later sentenced to death.)
2009 - Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre.
2011 - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi resigned.
2011 - The Arab League voted to suspend Syria over the country's bloody crackdown on protesters.
2016 - Tens of thousands of people marched in the streets across the United States, staging the fourth day of protests against Donald Trump's surprise victory as president.
2019 - Venice saw its worst flooding in more than 50 years, with the water reaching 6.14 feet above average sea level; damage was estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
2020 - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, a broad coalition of top government and industry officials, rejected President Donald Trump's claims of election fraud, saying that the election was "the most secure in American history" and that there was "no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes or was in any way compromised."
2020 - Federal health officials reached an agreement with pharmacies across the U.S. to distribute free coronavirus vaccines once the vaccines were approved and available.
Birthdays
29 - Macey Cruthird (actress)
29 - Erika Costell (model)
33 - Russell Westbrook (basketball player)
39 - Anne Hathaway (actress)
41 - Ryan Gosling (actor)
42 - Cote de Pablo (actress)
43 - Ashley Williams (actress)
45 - Tevin Campbell (singer)
47 - Angela Watson (actress)
47 - Tamala Jones (actress)
50 - Rebecca Wisocky (actress)
51 - Tonya Harding (figure skater)
53 - Sammy Sosa (baseball player)
60 - Nadia Comaneci (gymnast)
62 - Vincent Irizarry (actor)
63 - Megan Mullally (actress)
71 - Barbara Fairchild (singer)
76 - Neil Young (singer)
77 - Al Michaels (sportscaster)
78 - Bryan Highland (singer)
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Today in Sports History - November 12
1892 - William "Pudge" Heffelfinger became the first professional football player when he was paid a $500 bonus for helping the Allegheny Athletic Association beat the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
1892 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 12-0.
1896 - Butte defeats Nebraska 20-6.
1898 - Drake defeats Nebraska 6-5.
1904 - Haskell defeats Nebraska 14-6.
1910 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 24-0.
1920 - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of Major League Baseball.
1921 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 28-0.
1927 - Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 21-13.
1932 - Nebraska and Pittsburgh play to a 0-0 tie.
1938 - #3 Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 19-0.
1949 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 7-0.
1953 - The NFL policy of blacking out home games was upheld by Judge Allan K. Grim of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.
1955 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 37-20.
1960 - Oklahoma State defeats Nebraska 7-6.
1966 - #4 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 21-6.
1967 - The Detroit Lions set a National Football League (NFL) record when they fumbled the ball 10 times. They only lost possession five of the ten times.
1970 - The Cleveland Cavaliers record their first NBA victory, 105-103 over the Portland Trailblazers.
1972 - Don Shula, coach of the Miami Dolphins, became the first NFL head coach to win 100 regular season games in 10 seasons.
1975 - Tom Seaver of the New York Mets wins his third Cy Young Award.
1977 - #12 Nebraska defeats Kansas 52-7.
1983 - #1 Nebraska defeats Kansas 67-13.
1988 - #7 Nebraska defeats #19 Colorado 7-0.
1990 - "The Body Bag Game" occurs- after Philadelphia Eagles coach Buddy Ryan threatens beating the Washington Redskins so badly "they'll have to be carted off in body bags" the Eagles defense score 3 touchdowns winning 28–14, knocking 8 Redskins out of the game.
1994 - #1 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 28-12.
1995 - Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins breaks Fran Tarkenton's NFL career passing record of 47,003 yards.
2005 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 27-25.
2011 - #19 Nebraska defeats #12 Penn State 17-14.
2016 - #21 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 24-17.
2019 - Former Houston Astros pitcher Mike Fiers reveals the team secretly stole signs via camera from visiting teams from 2015 through 2017; communications between opposing pitchers and catchers were intercepted and relayed to Houston batters.
