Today in History: PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan Caught at Rome Airport

November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 49.

Railways

• 12 November 1918 sent to the General Directorate of Anatolian Railways, it was reported that the company could supply it to the 1400 penny.
• 12 November 1935 Irmak-Filyos line was opened by Ali Çetinkaya.

Events 

• 1799 - Meteor shower recorded for the first time.
• 1833 - The Leonid Meteor Shower, caused by Comet Temple-Trupple, occurs in North America.
• 1840 – Sculptor Auguste Rodin, known for the Thinking Man sculpture, was born in Paris.
• 1877 – Gazi Osman Pasha declared that he would not surrender in Pleven.
• 1900 – 50 million people visited the International Paris Exhibition.
• 1905 - Supporters of the monarchy won the popular vote in Norway.
• 1912 - Spanish Prime Minister José Canalejas is assassinated.
• 1918 – A republic was proclaimed in Austria.
• 1927 – Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party in the Soviet Union; Stalin took over.
• 1927 - Holland Tunnel opened to traffic. Thus, New Jersey and New York were connected under the Hudson River.
• 1929 – The first Turkish postage stamps printed with new letters came into use.
• 1933 – In the elections held in Germany, the Nazi party received 92 percent of the votes.
• 1934 – For the first time in Turkey, a woman became the deputy mayor: Bursa City Council elected Zehra Hanım as the Deputy Mayor.
• 1938 - In Germany, Hermann Göring announced that the Nazis were planning to make Madagascar the homeland of the Jews. This idea was first put forward by journalist Theodor Herzl in the 19th century.
• 1939 – An earthquake occurred in Erzincan. While nearly 33.000 people lost their lives, 100.000 people were injured.
• 1945 – The National Front led by Marshal Josip Broz Tito wins the general elections in Yugoslavia.
• 1948 – International war crimes tribunal established in Tokyo, some Japanese military and civilian officials, including General Hideki Tōjō, in World War II. He was sentenced to death for war crimes in World War II.
• 1967 – Denktaş was released after the Turkish government requested the release of Rauf Denktaş, the leader of the Turkish community, who had been secretly entered by the Greeks in Cyprus on 31 October, to be released.
• 1969 – Cevdet Sunay, who went to Moscow, became the first Turkish President to visit the Soviet Union.
• 1969 - American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh uncovered the My Lai Massacre. In March, US soldiers killed nearly 500 unarmed civilians, including children and women.
• 1980 - NASA spacecraft Voyager I, came closest to the planet Saturn and took pictures of the planet's rings and sent them to Earth.
• 1981 – Space Shuttle Columbia is launched, making it the first spacecraft to be launched twice from Earth.
• 1982 - Lech Walesa is released again after 11 months in a Polish prison.
• 1990 - Emperor Akihito of Japan is crowned.
• 1995 – Sait Halim Pasha Mansion was completely burned.
• 1996 – A Boeing 747 type passenger plane belonging to Saudi Arabian Airlines and Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 type cargo plane collided in mid-air near New Delhi: 349 people were killed.
• 1997 - AB-212 type Turkish helicopter crashed off Rhodes Island during the joint training of ships of the NATO Mediterranean Permanent Naval Force: 3 soldiers died.
• 1998 – PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan was captured at the Rome airport.
• 1999 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 7,2 occurred in Bolu, Düzce and Kaynaşlı; 894 people were killed and 4.948 injured.
• 2001 – An Airbus A300 type passenger plane taking off from New York's JFK airport crashes in a matter of minutes: 260 people are killed.
• 2003 – BİLSAT satellite, which was produced by TÜBİTAK Information Technologies and Electronics Research Institute (BİLTEN) by technology transfer method and sent to space, started to send images.
• 2004 - After the death of Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas became the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• 2011 – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his Government resign.
• 2014 – The Philae rover, which separated from the Rosetta spacecraft, landed on comet 67P.

Births 

• 1528 – Qi Jiguang, Ming Dynasty general and national hero (d. 1588)
• 1651 – Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican nun and poet (d. 1695)
• 1729 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer (d. 1811)
• 1755 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Hanoverian general and first Prussian Chief of Staff (d. 1813)
• 1815 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American author and activist (d. 1902)
• 1817 – Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Baha'i religion (d. 1892)
• 1833 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (d. 1887)
• 1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
• 1842 – John Strutt Rayleigh, English physicist (d. 1919)
• 1866 – Sun Yat-sen, revolutionary leader, founder of modern China (d. 1925)
• 1881 – Maximilian von Weichs, German cavalry officer and field marshal of Nazi Germany (d. 1954)
• 1889 – Alma Karlin, Slovenian writer (d. 1950)
• 1903 – Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1904 – Edmund Veesenmayer, German politician, military officer (SS-Brigadeführer), and war criminal (d. 1977)
• 1905 – Roland Rohn, German architect (d. 1971)
• 1908 – Harry Blackmun, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1999)
• 1915 – Roland Barthes, French philosopher (d. 1980)
• 1922 – Tadeusz Borowski, Polish writer (d. 1951)
• 1922 – Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Michael Ende, German author of children's fantasy books (d. 1995)
• 1929 – Grace Kelly, American actress and princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
• 1930 – Bob Crewe, American songwriter, dancer, singer, and record producer (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Jalal Talabani, Iraqi Kurdish politician and former President of Iraq (d. 2017)
• 1934 – Charles Manson, American serial killer (d. 2017)
• 1934 – Vavá, Brazilian football player (d. 2002)
• 1936 – Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
• 1938 – Benjamin Mkapa, Tanzanian journalist, diplomat, and politician (d. 2020)
• 1939 – Lucia Popp, Slovak opera singer (d. 1993)
• 1943 – Errol Brown, British-Jamaican musician and singer (d. 2015)
• 1943 – Wally Shawn, American voice actor, actor, comedian, and author
• 1943 – Björn Waldegård, Swedish rally driver (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Neil Young, Canadian rock artist and guitarist
• 1947 – Muazzez Abacı, Turkish Classical Turkish music singer
• 1947 – Patrice Leconte, French film director, actor, comics writer, and screenwriter
• 1948 - Hassan Rouhani, Iranian politician, academic, and 7th President of Iran
• 1955 – Louan Gideon, American actor (d. 2014)
• 1955 – Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer (d. 2021)
• 1958 - Megan Mullally is an American actress.
• 1960 – Maurane, Francophone Belgian singer and actor (d. 2018)
• 1961 – Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast
• 1961 – Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan football player
• 1963 – Nil Unal, Turkish actress and singer
• 1964 – David Ellefson, American musician, bass guitarist
• 1964 – Wang Kuang-hui, Taiwanese professional baseball player and coach (d. 2021)
• 1964 – Semih Sayginer, Turkish pool player
• 1968 - Glenn Gilberti is an American wrestler
• 1968 - Kathleen Hanna, American musician, feminist activist, and author
• 1970 - Tonya Harding is a former American figure skater.
• 1973 – Ibrahim Ba, French football player of Senegalese descent
• 1973 – Radha Mitchell, Australian television and film actress
• 1974 – Alessandro Birendelli, Italian football player
• 1976 – Judith Holofernes, German musician and songwriter
• 1976 – Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish football player
• 1977 - Benni McCarthy, South African former football player
• 1978 – Devrim Evin, Turkish cinema and theater actor
• 1978 – Alexandra Maria Lara, Romanian-born German film actress
• 1979 – Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler (d. 2018)
• 1979 – Lucas Glover, American golfer
• 1980 – Ryan Gosling, American actor
• 1980 – Nur Fettahoğlu, Turkish artist
• 1980 – Benoît Pedretti, French football player
• 1981 - Sergio Floccari, Italian football player
• 1981 – Anne Hathaway, American actress and winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
• 1984 – Omarion, American singer, actor, dancer
• 1984 – Sandara Park is a South Korean singer, actress, and television host.
• 1984 – Zi Yan, Chinese professional tennis player
• 1985 – Adlène Guedioura, Algerian-born, French football player
• 1986 – Ignazio Abate, Italian football player
• 1986 – Nedum Onuoha, Nigerian-born former English football player
• 1987 – Jason Day, Australian golfer
• 1988 - Russell Westbrook is an American professional basketball player.
• 1989 – Hiroshi Kiyotake, Japanese international football player
• 1992 – Trey Burke is an American professional basketball player.
• 1994 – Guillaume Cizeron, French ice dancer

Deaths 

• 607 – III. Bonifacius, pope
• 1035 – Knud, King of England, Norway and Denmark (b. 995)
• 1595 – John Hawkins, English shipbuilder, naval officer, navigator, commander, navigational officer, and slave trader (b. 1532)
• 1605 – Handan Sultan, Valide sultan and mother of Ahmed I (b. 1574)
• 1671 – Thomas Fairfax, commander in the parliamentary army in the English Civil War and a comrade to Oliver Cromwell (b. 1612)
• 1836 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine soldier and politician (b. 1773)
• 1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
• 1880 – Karl Heinzen, German revolutionary writer (b. 1809)
• 1916 – Percival Lowell, American businessman, author, mathematician (b. 1855)
• 1928 – Francis Leavenworth, American astronomer (b. 1858)
• 1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian physician and philanthropist (b. 1890)
• 1944 – George David Birkhoff, American mathematician (b. 1884)
• 1948 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
• 1955 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer and architect (b. 1878)
• 1964 – Rickard Sandler, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1884)
• 1969 – Liu Shaoqi, Chinese revolutionary, politician, and theorist (b. 1898)
• 1970 – Vecihe Daryal, Law virtuoso (b. 1908)
• 1981 – William Holden, American actor and Oscar winner (b. 1918)
• 1989 – Dolores Ibarruri, BASK communist politician (b. 1895)
• 1990 – Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Wilma Rudolph, American former Olympic champion athlete (b. 1940)
• 1996 – Macit Flordun, Turkish theater and film actor (b. 1939)
• 2003 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
• 2004 – Serol Teber, Turkish psychiatrist (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Güzin Tural, Turkish language researcher and lecturer (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Ira Levin, American author (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Mitch Mitchell, British drummer (b. 1947)
• 2010 – Henryk Górecki, Polish classical composer (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Sacit Onan, Turkish director, poet and voice actor (b. 1945)
• 2015 – Márton Fülöp, Hungarian former international football player (b. 1983)
• 2015 – Jihadist John, ISIS executioner (b. 1988)
• 2016 – Mahmud Abdulaziz, Egyptian cinema and TV series actor (b. 1946)
• 2016 – Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American silent film actress (b. 1910)
• 2016 – Paul Vergès, French lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
• 2016 – Yu Xu, Chinese female aerobatic and fighter pilot (b. 1986)
• 2017 – Jack Ralite, French politician (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Yoshito Kajiya, Japanese politician (b. 1938)
• 2018 – Ananth Kumar, Indian politician and minister (b. 1959)
• 2018 – Stan Lee, American comics writer (b. 1922)
• 2018 – David Pearson, American former speedway driver (b. 1934)
• 2019 – Mitsuhisa Taguchi, Japanese former international football player (b. 1955)
• 2020 – Asif Basra, Indian actor (b. 1967)
• 2020 – Nelly Kaplan, Argentine-born French filmmaker, director, writer and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 2020 – Lynn Kellogg, American actress and singer (b. 1943)
• 2020 – Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1926)
• 2020 – Leonid Potapov, Russian politician (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian soldier and politician (b. 1947)
• 2020 – Gernot Roll, German cinematographer (b. 1939)
• 2020 – Krasnodar Rora, Croatian-born Yugoslav national football player and manager (b. 1945)

Holidays and special occasions 

• World Pneumonia (Pneumonia) Day
• Storm : Lodos Storm