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On This Day In History for November 12, 2025
This is the 316th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 49 days remaining in 2025.
- It was also this date in 1936 that In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic.
- That same date in 1954, Ellis Island ceased operations.
- It was on this date in 1970, that The Oregon Highway Division attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous “exploding whale” incident.
- Also on November 12, 1980, The NASA space probe Voyager I made its closest approach to Saturn and took the first images of its rings.
- November 12, 1981, Space Shuttle Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marked the first time a crewed spacecraft was launched into space twice.
- It was on this date in 1995 that Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on STS-74 to deliver the Mir Docking Module to the Russian space station Mir.[17]
- Today in 2003, Shanghai Transrapid set a new world speed record of 501 kilometres per hour (311 mph) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
- It was 11 years ago today, that The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe, reached the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
- On November 12, 2020, The PlayStation 5 was released.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- French admiral and explorer, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, born on this date in 1729.
- Thaddeus William Harris, the American entomologist and botanist was born 230 years ago today.
- Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist was born on that same date in 1833.
- Born November 12, 1842, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate John William Strutt.
- DeWitt Wallace, the American publisher and philanthropist, co-founded Reader’s Digest was born 136 years ago today.
- Born November 12, 1923, English archaeologist and explorer Ian Graham.
- Richard H. Truly, the NASA astronaut was born 88 years ago today.
- American actress Anne Hathaway is 43 today.
Listener Birthdays
- 13 – Jennifer Therrien
- 15 – Jackie Breller (Krazy Joe & Christine’s daughter)
- 15 – Chuck Jolley aka nitestarr
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 12, 2025
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- Warm ocean beneath Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus may be perfect for life | ScienceDaily
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