On November 12
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly November 12. The closest is Armistice of 11 November 1918 ends the fighting on November 11, 1918 (1 day earlier).
This week in history (Nov 9 to Nov 15)
The Berlin West Africa Conference, convened by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and held from 15 November 1884 to 26 February 1885, brought together fourteen states, twelve European powers, the Ottoman Empire and the United States to…
On the evening of 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall, the most potent physical symbol of the Cold War division of Europe, was opened.
On 9 to 10 November 1799 (18 to 19 Brumaire, Year VIII) General Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in France in a coup d'état that overthrew the Directory and established the Consulate.
The Armistice between the Allies and Germany was signed at around 5:45 a.m. on 11 November 1918 in a railway carriage in the Compiègne Forest in France and took effect at 11:00 a.m., 'the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh…