On this day in history
November 12
MesopotamianHinduScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on November 12 this year.
- 1859 CEMesopotamian · born
George Aaron Barton, the scholar of Semitic languages who edited early Sumerian religious and administrative inscriptions, was born on this day in 1859.
- 1946 CEHindu · died
Madan Mohan Malaviya, the Hindu educator and reformer who founded Banaras Hindu University, died at Varanasi.
- 1980 CEScience
NASA's Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Saturn, returning detailed images of the planet's rings and of its haze-covered moon Titan.