Today in History for 12th November 2022

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Historical Events

1933 - 1st NFL football game on a Sunday at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl - sporting events on Sunday had been illegal on Sundays; Eagles tie Chicago Bears, 3-3
1936 - St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes and William O DeWitt
1966 - 18-year-old US High schooler Robert Smith kills 5 people at Arizona's Rose-Mar Beauty College for fame
1970 - Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) killing up to 500,000, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded
1981 - Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World
1996 - Saudi Arabian Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 collide in midair over Charkhi Dadri in India, killing 349 people, the third-deadliest aviation disaster in history

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Famous Birthdays

1853 - Oskar Panizza, German writer (Das Liebeskonzil), born in Bad Kissingen, Bavaria (d. 1921)
1865 - Frans "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas), (d. 1939)
1921 - Robert Fleming, Canadian composer, born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (d. 1976)
1931 - Bob Crewe, songwriter and producer ("Big Girls Don't Cry"; "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)"), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2014)
1968 - Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride), born in England, United Kingdom
1978 - Alexandra Maria Lara, Romanian-German actress, born in Bucharest, Romania

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Famous Deaths

1720 - Peter Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero, dies at 30
1739 - Ludwig Ernst, German composer, dies at 71
1916 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto) and founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, dies of a stroke at 61
1969 - Louis van Tulder, Dutch tenor (Kantoorkruk to high C), dies at 77
1976 - Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
1994 - Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer, dies at 88

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