📜 This Day in History

November 12

• 1330Led by the voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada.
• 1920The Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes signed the Treaty of Rapallo to establish national borders east of the Adriatic Sea.
• 1940World War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy France.
• 1970The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with dynamite.
• 1996A 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.
• 2014The European Space Agency's lander Philae touched down on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a comet.

Born on this day

• 1840Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker (died 1917)
• 1866Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (died 1925)
• 1929Grace Kelly, American actress, later Princess Grace of Monaco (died 1982)
• 1948Hassan Rouhani, Iranian lawyer and politician; 7th President of Iran