November 12
Today in America's Present Past
1775 | War of Independence: General Washington forbids enlisting black troops, an order he reversed a few months later.
1790 | First Lady Letitia Christian Tyler was born.
1815 | Activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born.
1880 | Lew Wallace publishes “Ben Hur.”
1890 | The first edition of “Poems by Emily Dickinson” was published.
1889 | Publisher DeWitt Wallace was born.
1908 | SCOTUS: Justice Harry Blackmun was born.
1915 | Theodore W. Richards wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1916 | Astronomer Percival Lowell died.
1917 | Entrepreneur Joseph Coors was born.
1920 | Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first baseball commissioner.
1922 | The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority was founded.
1926 | The first recorded aerial bombing on American soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival bootleggers gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers.
1929 | Actress Grace Kelly was born.
1934 | Outlaw Charles Manson was born.
1936 | Eugene O’Neill won the Nobel Prize for literature.
1937 | Admiral Richard H. Truly was born.
1942 | Boxer Philadelphia Jack O’Brien died.
1944 | Journalist Al Michaels was born.
1945 | Cordell Hull won the Nobel Peace Prize.
1945 | Musician Neil Young was born.
1946 | The first drive-up teller window on a bank opened at the Exchange Bank.
1954 | Ellis Island, immigration station closed.
1958 | Actress Megan Mullally was born.
1962 | Author Naomi Wolf was born.
1964 | Economist Michael Kremer was born.
1966 | West Hollywood, California “Hippie Curfew” riots.
1966 | An 18-year-old US High schooler shot people at Arizona’s Rose-Mar Beauty College
.
1966 | Astronaut Buzz Aldrin takes the first “space selfie” during the Gemini 12 mission.
1968 | SCOTUS: The Court rules in Epperson v. Arkansas bans against evolution unconstitutional.
1976 | Composer Walter Piston died.
1978 | Composer Howard Swanson died.
1981 | Actor William Holden died.
1982 | Actress Anne Hathaway was born.
1985 | A secretary at the University of Michigan was wounded by bomb mailed by the university’s alumnus The Unibomber.
2003 | Actor Jonathan Brandis died.
2006 | General Jacob E. Smart died.
2018 | Cartoonist Stan Lee died.