Day In History
This Day in History
Today: November 12, 2026
954
The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom.[1]
1028
Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.[2]
1330
Battle of Posada ends: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush.[3]
1439
Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1835
Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.[4]
1892
Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
1893
Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British Raj.
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.[5]
1912
First Balkan War: King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
1912
The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.[6]
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