Today in History for 12th November 2023

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Historical Events

954 - Lotharius becomes King of France
1885 - Montreal and Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
1948 - The first mobile betatron (particle accelerator) begins operation at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland
1984 - NBC premiere of "Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story", fact based telepic of actress Saldana's near fatal attack and its aftermath
2015 - Out Magazine names Barack Obama 'Ally of the Year', Obama becomes 1st sitting US President to pose for cover of a gay magazine
2021 - Taylor Swift releases her directorial debut the short film "All Too Well" alongside her re-recorded album "Red (Taylor's Version)"

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Famous Birthdays

1547 - Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575). 2nd daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici
1915 - Roland Barthes, French literary critic (L'Empire des Signer) (d. 1980)
1927 - Pavel Kharin, Russian sprint canoeist (Olympic gold USSR C-2 10,000m, silver C-2 1,000m 1956), born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 2023)
1931 - Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer ("Big Girls Don't Cry"; "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)"), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2014)
1936 - Ruth Jessen, American golfer (11 LPGA Tour wins, 3-time major runner-up), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 2007)
1991 - Kathleen Herles, American child voice actress (Dora the Explorer, and Go, Diego, Go! - "Dora"), born in Queens, New York City

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Famous Deaths

1671 - Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary general (Commander-in-Chief of New Model Army during English Civil War), dies at 59
1836 - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1940 - Alejandro Garcia Caturla, Cuban composer, dies at 34
1996 - Gwen Catley, English soprano, dies at 90
2013 - John Tavener, British composer (The Protecting Veil), dies from complications from Marfan syndrome at 69
2020 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist (2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for neutrinos), dies at 94

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