November 12th

Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, capital of Chinese Tang Dynasty, occupy for fifteen days.

Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted in New York.

Dili massacre. Several pro-independence protesters were shot at the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, East Timor by Indonesian soldiers. about 250 people were killed in this event, which is also known as the Dili massacre or the Santa Cruz massacare

Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

First salvage operation in space. Astronauts Dale A. Gardner and Joseph P. Allen aboard space shuttle Discovery performed a series of space walks to salvage parts from two satellites, the Palapa B-2 and the Westar 6 which had steered away from their orbits.

The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time. It was the first time a space vehicle was used more than once.

Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan killing up to 500,000 - deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded.

US Supreme Court: Epperson v. Arkansas, court declares unconstitutional Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools.

First images of a Solar Eclipse taken from space. The crew of Gemini 12 which included Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin were able to view and take pictures of the total solar eclipse over South America.

Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. Twenty million immigrants went through Ellis Island in its 62 years of operation.

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese forces in Solomon Islands (WWII).

Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became the ruler of the Soviet Union.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of baseball.