On Nov. 12, 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. The Americans eventually won a major victory over the Japanese.
On Nov. 12, 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the pioneering American women's rights leader and social reformer, was born. Following her death on Oct. 26, 1902, her obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
| 1920 | Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected baseball's first commissioner. |
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| 1942 | The World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. |
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| 1948 | Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal. |
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| 1954 | Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892. |
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| 1982 | Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee. |
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| 1985 | Xavier Suarez was elected Miami's first Cuban-American mayor. |
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| 1990 | Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne. |
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| 1997 | Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. |
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| 1999 | President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products. |
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| 2001 | An American Airlines flight crashed near New York's Kennedy airport, killing 265 people. |
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| 2004 | A jury in Redwood City, Calif., convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay. (Peterson was later sentenced to death.) |
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| 2006 | Gerald R. Ford surpassed Ronald Reagan as the longest-lived U.S. president at 93 years and 121 days. (Ford died the following month.) |
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| 2008 | Same-sex marriages began in Connecticut, a month after the state Supreme Court ruled that gays had the right to wed. |
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| 2009 | Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre. |
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Current Birthdays
Actress Anne Hathaway turns 29 years old today.
AP Photo/Kristian Dowling
Actor Ryan Gosling turns 31 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
| 1931 | Norman Y. Mineta, Former secretary of transportation, turns 80 |
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| 1943 | Wallace Shawn, Actor, playwright, turns 68 |
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| 1944 | Booker T. Jones, Rock musician (Booker T. & the MGs), turns 67 |
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| 1944 | Al Michaels, Sportscaster, turns 67 |
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| 1945 | Neil Young, Rock musician, turns 66 |
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| 1949 | Jack Reed, U.S. senator, D-R.I., turns 62 |
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| 1958 | Megan Mullally, Actress ("Will and Grace"), turns 53 |
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| 1961 | Nadia Comaneci, Olympic gold medal gymnast, turns 50 |
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| 1968 | Sammy Sosa, Baseball player, turns 43 |
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| 1973 | Radha Mitchell, Actress, turns 38 |
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| 1984 | Omarion, Singer, turns 27 |
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Historic Birthdays
Elizabeth Cady Stanton11/12/1815 - 10/26/1902American social reformer; fought for women's suffrage.Go to obituary »
| 66 | Baccio Bandinelli 11/12/1493 - 2/7/1560
Italian sculptor |
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| 53 | Aleksandr Borodin 11/12/1833 - 2/27/1887
Russian composer |
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| 77 | Auguste Rodin 11/12/1840 - 11/17/1917
French sculptor |
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| 74 | Jack Oakie 11/12/1903 - 1/23/1978
American actor |
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| 90 | Harry Blackmun 11/12/1908 - 3/4/1999
American jurist; associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94) |
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| 80 | Buck Clayton 11/12/1911 - 12/8/1991
American musician |
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| 64 | Roland Barthes 11/12/1915 - 3/25/1980
French essayist |
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| 52 | Grace Kelly 11/12/1929 - 9/14/1982
American actress |
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