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Voyager I flies near Saturn
Japanese war criminals sentenced
First meteor shower on record
Akihito enthroned as emperor of Japan
Ellis Island closes
Bartolomeo Bandinelli Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
Claude of Valois French princess (d. 1575). 2nd daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de Medici.
Juana Ines de La Cruz Mexican poetnunfeminist (Primero Sueno)
Louis Antoine de Bougainville French explorer (d. 1811)
Jacques-Alexandre-Csar Charles Beaugency French inventor and balloonist who with Nicholas Robert was the first to take flight in a hydrogen balloon
Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst Prussia miltminister of War (1807-10)
John Burke Irish genealogist (Burkes Peerage)
Letitia Christian Tyler 1st wife of President Tyler
Martin Gustav Nottebohm composer born in Ldenscheid Westphalia (d. 1882)
Bahullh Prophet Founder of the Bah Faith (d. 1892)
Gustav Merkel German organist and composer (d. 1885)
Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun Austria botanist
Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin Russian composer (Robert LeDiable)
Eduard Mller member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)
Mikhail Chigorin Russian chess player (d. 1908)
Oskar Panizza German writer (Das Liebeskonzil) born in Bad Kissingen Bavaria (d. 1921)
Frans Sas van Aerschot Flemish operetta actor (Paljas) born (d. 1939)
Bert Williams African American comedian and entertainer born in Nassau Bahamas (d. 1922)
Maximilian von Weichs German field marshal (d. 1954)
DeWitt Wallace publisher founded Readers Digest (1921) born in Saint Paul Minnesota
Lily Kronberger Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
Seth Barnes Nicholson American astronomer who discovered four satellites of Jupiter born in Springfield Illinois
Abraham J D van Oosten Dutch poetauthor (His Masters Voice)
Jack Oakie American actor (The Great Dictator 1974 Photoplay Award) born in Sedalia Missouri (d. 1978)
Bukka [Booker T. Washington] White blues guitarist born in Houston Mississippi (d. 1977)
Hans Werner Richter German author (Socially Responsible Cinema)
Harry A Blackmun Ill 100th Supreme Court justice (1970-94)
A Dudley Nourse cricketer (son of Dave brilliant South African batsman)
Luc Estang [Lucien Bastard] French writer (Stigmates)
William Thomas Pennar Davies poet authortheologian
Buck Clayton American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
Alphonse [Tuffy] Leemans NFL fullback (NY Giants)
Edward Henricus Schillebeeckx Dutch theologist
Nov 12 1439 Plymouth England becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
Nov 12 1555 The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
Nov 12 1614 Treaty of Xanten Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends