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Today in History: November 12

1867 Mount Vesuvius erupts.

1923 Adolf Hitler is arrested for his attempted German coup.

1938 Mexico agrees to compensate the United States for land seizures.

1941 Madame Lillian Evanti and Mary Cardwell Dawson establish the National Negro Opera Company.

1944 The German battleship Tirpitz is sunk in a Norwegian fjord.

1948 Hikedi Tojo, Japanese prime minister, and seven others are sentenced to hang by an international tribunal.

1951 The U.S. Eighth Army in Korea is ordered to cease offensive operations and begin an active defense.

1968 The U.S. Supreme Court voids an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools.

1990 Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, publishes a formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web.

1997 Ramzi Yousef convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

2003 The first Italians to die in the Iraq War are among 23 fatalities from a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base in Nasiriya, iraq.


Born on November 12

1929 Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco.

1961 Nadia Comaneci, Olympic gold medal-winning Romanian gymnast; named one of the athletes of the century by Laureus World Sports Academy (2000).

JOTD
A guy was walking to a bar

and on his way he found a girl tied up to the railroad tracks.
He untied her and they had sex.
Guy gets to the bar, friends ask why he's so late, tells them about the girl he found and all the positions they fricked in.
Friends give him props and ask if he got head, guy replies
"I couldn't find it."