This Day In History : November 12

316th day of the year 📍 World Pneumonia Day

1847 Sir James Young Simpson uses chloroform as an anaesthetic in an operation.

1892 Pudge Heffelfinger 1st pro football player

1901 Decisions on the the first Nobel Prizes for Physics and for Chemistry were made at a meeting of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The first Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of X-rays.
The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry
For his work on rates of reaction, equilibrium and osmotic pressure.

1927, the Holland Tunnelthe world's first underwater vehicular tunnel officially opened

1927 - Joseph Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union

1931 Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1

1940 - Walt Disney released "Fantasia."

1945 Neil Young is born

1966 The first photograph was taken from the atmosphere by the satellite Gemini XII.

1984 - Madonna released the album "Like A Virgin"

1990 Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web

2015 Obama 1st sitting US President to pose for cover of a gay magazine
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