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On November 12, 954: The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom.

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Featured moment · 954

The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom.

Lothair, sometimes called Lothair II, III or IV, was the penultimate Carolingian king of West Francia, reigning from 10 September 954 until his death in 986.

People

Born on November 12

Leonardo Puglisi 2007– Australian journalist (born 2007)
Paolo Banchero 2002– Italian-American basketball player (born 2002)
Tino Livramento 2002– English footballer (born 2002)
Raffey Cassidy 2001– English actress (born 2001)
Choi Yoo-jung 1999– South Korean singer and actress (born 1999)
Jules Koundé 1998– French footballer (born 1998)
Elias Pettersson 1998– Swedish ice hockey player (born 1998)
Dexter Lawrence 1997– American football player (born 1997)
Thomas Lemar 1995– French footballer (born 1995)
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xQc 1995– Canadian streamer (born 1995)
Guillaume Cizeron 1994– French ice dancer (born 1994)
Kseniya Alexandrova 1994– Russian model, television host and beauty pageant titleholder (1994–2025)
Tomáš Hertl 1993– Czech ice hockey player (born 1993)
Dāvis Bertāns 1992– Latvian basketball player (born 1992)
Trey Burke 1992– American basketball player (born 1992)
Adam Larsson 1992– Swedish ice hockey player (born 1992)
Luguelín Santos 1992– Dominican sprinter
Cairo Santos 1991– Brazilian-American gridiron football player (born 1991)

People

Died on November 12

Roy Haynes American jazz drummer and group leader (1925–2024)
John Horgan Premier of British Columbia from 2017 to 2022
Song Jae-rim South Korean actor and model (1985–2024)
Thomas E. Kurtz American computer scientist and educator (1928–2024)
Timothy West English actor (1934–2024)
Don Walsh American oceanographer (1931–2023)
Chung-Yun Hse Taiwanese American wood scientist (1935–2021)
Stan Lee American comic book writer (1922–2018)
Lupita Tovar Mexican-American actress (1910–2016)
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Mahmoud Abdel Aziz Egyptian actor (1946–2016)
Márton Fülöp Hungarian footballer (1983–2015)
Jihadi John Kuwaiti-British terrorist and ISIS executioner (1988–2015)
Ravi Chopra Indian filmmaker (1946–2014)
Warren Clarke British actor (1947–2014)
Marge Roukema American politician (1929–2014)
Valery Senderov Russian mathematician and academic (born 1945)
Steve Rexe Canadian ice hockey player (1947–2013)
Konrad Rudnicki Polish astronomer

Timeline

Every November 12 on record

  1. 954 The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom.

    King of West Francia from 954 to 986

    Lothair, sometimes called Lothair II, III or IV, was the penultimate Carolingian king of West Francia, reigning from 10 September 954 until his death in 986.

  2. 1028 Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.

    The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Byzantine Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as legitimate rulers and exercised sovereign authority are included, to the exclusion of junior co-emperors who never attained the status of sole or senior ruler, as well as of the various usurpers or rebels who claimed the imperial title.

  3. 1330 Battle of Posada ends: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush.

    1330 battle between Wallachian and Hungarian armies

    The Battle of Posada was fought between Basarab I of Wallachia and Charles I of Hungary . The small Wallachian army led by Basarab, formed of cavalry and foot archers, as well as local peasants, managed to ambush and defeat the 30,000-strong Hungarian army, in a mountainous region.

  4. 1439 Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

    City and unitary authority in England

    Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, England. It is located on Devon's south coast between the rivers Plym and Tamar, about 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Exeter and 193 miles (311 km) southwest of London. It is the most populous city in Devon.

  5. 1835 Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.

    Monument in Kingston Upon Hull, England

    The Wilberforce Monument is a monument honouring English politician and abolitionist William Wilberforce in Kingston Upon Hull, England. The ashlar structure consists of a Doric column topped by a statue of Wilberforce. Construction on the monument began in 1834 and was completed the following year.

  6. 1892 Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
  7. 1893 Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British Raj.
  8. 1905 Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
  9. 1912 First Balkan War: King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
  10. 1912 The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
  11. 1918 Dissolution of Austria-Hungary: Austria becomes a republic. After the proclamation, a coup attempt by the communist Red Guard is defeated by the social-democratic Volkswehr.
  12. 1920 The 1920 Cork hunger strike by Irish republicans ends after three deaths.
  13. 1920 Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
  14. 1927 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
  15. 1928 SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
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  1. 1933 Nazi Germany uses a referendum to ratify its withdrawal from the League of Nations.
  2. 1936 In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
  3. 1938 Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Elimination of Jews from Economic Life prohibiting Jews from selling goods and services or working in a trade, totally segregating Jews from the German economy.
  4. 1940 World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces.
  5. 1940 World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.
  6. 1941 World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to −12 °C (10 °F) as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
  7. 1941 World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.
  8. 1942 World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.
  9. 1944 World War II: The Royal Air Force sink the German battleship Tirpitz, moored off Tromsø, Norway.
  10. 1948 Aftermath of World War II: In Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
  11. 1954 Ellis Island ceases operations.
  12. 1956 Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
  13. 1956 In the midst of the Suez Crisis, Palestinian refugees are shot dead in Rafah by Israel Defense Force soldiers following the invasion of the Gaza Strip.
  14. 1958 A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
  15. 1961 Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard the ketch Bluebelle.

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