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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_12" title="November 12">November 12</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912" title="1912">1912</a> – Eight months after perishing during the ill-fated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova_Expedition" title="Terra Nova Expedition"><i>Terra Nova</i> Expedition</a>, the bodies of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falcon_Scott" title="Robert Falcon Scott">Robert Falcon Scott</a></b> and his companions were discovered on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ice_Shelf" title="Ross Ice Shelf">Ross Ice Shelf</a> in Antarctica.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942" title="1942">1942</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal" title="Naval Battle of Guadalcanal">Naval Battle of Guadalcanal</a></b>, the decisive engagement in a series of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_warfare" title="Naval warfare">sea battles</a> between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied</a> and Japanese forces during the months-long <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal_campaign" title="Guadalcanal campaign">Guadalcanal campaign</a> in the Solomon Islands, began.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudirman" title="Sudirman">Sudirman</a></b> was elected the first commander-in-chief of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Armed_Forces" title="Indonesian National Armed Forces">Indonesian Armed Forces</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency" title="European Space Agency">European Space Agency</a> lander <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_(spacecraft)" title="Philae (spacecraft)">Philae</a></b></i> touched down on <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko" title="67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko">67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko</a></b>, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">comet</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Martyr_Vermigli" title="Peter Martyr Vermigli">Peter Martyr Vermigli</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1562); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Barlow" title="William Henry Barlow">William Henry Barlow</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1902); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Stafford" title="Jo Stafford">Jo Stafford</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1917)</p>
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