12 Aban 1399

Events

• 1868 (158 years ago) Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
• 1889 (137 years ago) North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
• 1914 (112 years ago) World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles is subsequently closed.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
• 1966 (60 years ago) The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
• 1983 (43 years ago) U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
• 1999 (27 years ago) Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
• 2020 (6 years ago) In Vienna's Innere Stadt district, an ISIL sympathizer shoots and kills four people and injures 23 more, before being shot and killed by the police.

Births

• 1755 (271 years ago) Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France (died 1793)
• 1795 (231 years ago) James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (died 1849)
• 1815 (211 years ago) George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (died 1864)
• 1865 (161 years ago) Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (died 1923)
• 1911 (115 years ago) Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)
• 1913 (113 years ago) Burt Lancaster, American actor (died 1994)
• 1963 (63 years ago) Borut Pahor, Slovenian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Slovenia
• 1965 (61 years ago) Shah Rukh Khan, Indian film actor, producer and television host

Deaths

• 1083 (943 years ago) Matilda of Flanders, Queen Consort of England (born 1031)
• 1887 (139 years ago) Jenny Lind, Swedish operatic soprano (born 1820)
• 1950 (76 years ago) George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)
• 1961 (65 years ago) James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (born 1894)
• 1966 (60 years ago) Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)
• 1975 (51 years ago) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)
• 2004 (22 years ago) Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the 1st president and founder of the UAE (born 1918)
• 2004 (22 years ago) Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, and producer (born 1957)

All 326 events, births and deaths of November 2