Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 12:
1912 – A search party found the remains of British explorer Captain Robert Scott and his companions after their ill-fated South Pole expedition. It was believed they had died in late March.
1923 – Adolf Hitler was arrested for a failed attempt to seize power on Nov. 8 in Germany’s Beer Hall Putsch.
1970 – A cyclone and tidal wave hit East Pakistan. At least 200,000 people died.
1990 – Emperor Akihito was enthroned in Japan amid a series of bomb explosions across the capital by leftist radicals.
1996 – A Saudi Arabian jumbo jet and a Kazakh airliner collided in mid-air over India, killing 349 people.
1998 – Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan was arrested in Rome. Turkey immediately asked for his extradition.
1999 – An earthquake rocked northwest Turkey, killing at least 749 people.
1999 – British explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs, who made the first surface crossing of the Antarctic, died aged 91.
2001 – An American Airlines Airbus-300 flight with 260 people on board crashed after taking off from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, hitting nearby homes. Everyone on the plane and five people on the ground were killed.
2003 – A judge sentenced Loik Le Floch-Prigent, former chairman of oil giant Elf, to five years in jail over the misuse of millions of dollars in France’s biggest corporate graft case.
2006 – Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia overwhelmingly endorsed its split with Tbilisi in a referendum.
(Reuters)