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Today in History: November 12
1276
Suspicious of the intentions of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales, English King Edward I resolves to invade Wales.

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.

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

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

1987
Boris Yeltsin is fired as head of Moscow's Communist Party for criticizing the slow pace of reform.

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.

Today in History: Born on November 12

1929
Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco.

1945
Neil Young, singer, songwriter, musician, producer; member of several well-known bands including Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

1957
Tim Samaras, engineer and storm chaser who contributed to scientific knowledge of tornadoes; killed along with his son Paul and meteorologist Carl Young by a tornado with winds of nearly 300 mph near El Reno, Okla,, in 2013.

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

1968
Sammy Sosa, pro baseball player from Dominican Republic; only MLB player to hit 60 or more home runs in a single season three times, he was denied entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013 after as-yet unproven allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs.

JOTD
The Bible tells us to love each other.


The Kama Sutra is a little more specific.