Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 12

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 * 1330 – Led by the voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada.
 * 1905 – In a referendum, 79 percent of voters opted to keep Norway a monarchy, paving the way for Haakon VII to take the throne.
 * 1911 The Corozal, the most powerful dredger built to that time, was launched in London for service in construction of the Panama Canal.
 * 1912 – Eight months after perishing during the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, the bodies of Robert Falcon Scott (pictured) and his companions were discovered on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
 * 1928 – The British ocean liner SS Vestris sank in the western Atlantic Ocean, killing 111 people.
 * 1932 - At the request of the Government of Western Australia, the Australian military officially resumed fighting the Great Emu War after their prior withdrawal.
 * 1940 – World War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy France.
 * 1940 – World War II: Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis powers.
 * 1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the decisive engagement in a series of sea battles between Allied and Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands, began.
 * 1944 – Second World War: The Royal Air Force sank the German battleship Tirpitz on the ninth attempt (video featured), killing about 1,000 sailors on board.
 * 1948 – Former Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo was sentenced to death for war crimes alongside generals Iwane Matsui, Akira Mutō and Kenji Doihara.
 * 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with dynamite.
 * 1991 – Indonesian forces opened fire on student demonstrators protesting the occupation of East Timor in the capital Dili, killing at least 250 people.
 * 1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 collided in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349 people, the deadliest such collision in history.
 * 2001 – American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into residential buildings five minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, killing a total of 265 people.
 * 2006 – Although the Georgian government declared it illegal, South Ossetia held a referendum on independence, with more than 99 percent of voters in favour of preserving the region's status as a de facto independent state.
 * 2011 – An explosion in the Shahid Modarres missile base led to the deaths of 17 members of the Revolutionary Guards, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.
 * Born/died this day: | Johan Rantzau |b|1492| Peter Martyr Vermigli |d|1562| Auguste Rodin |b|1840| Rachel Barrett |b|1874| Ben Travers |b|1886| William Henry Barlow |d|1902| Jo Stafford |b|1917| Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley |b|1926| Edward Soriano |b|1946| Naomi Wolf |b|1962