A to Z This Day in World History | November 12th

Nov 12, 2023

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Here are some historical events that happened on November 12 in the past:

1918: Austria becomes a republic, marking the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1927: Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, marking a significant moment in the power struggle within the Soviet Union.
1941: During World War II, the Soviet Union launches Operation Typhoon, an offensive against German forces near Moscow.
1954: Ellis Island, the immigration station in New York Harbor, closes its doors after processing over 20 million immigrants since 1892.
1969: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai Massacre story. The My Lai Massacre was a mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians, mostly women, children, and elderly people, by U.S. Army soldiers during the Vietnam War.
1990: Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

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