What happened on 12 November?

12 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1866 Born: Sun Yat-sen Father of modern China; first provisional president of the Republic.
2. 1648 Born: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Mexican nun, scholar, and poet of the Spanish Baroque; defender of women's right to learn.
3. 1970 Bhola cyclone Deadliest tropical cyclone in modern history — over 300,000 dead in East Pakistan.
4. 1982 Andropov's leadership of the Soviet Union The former KGB chairman lasts fifteen months, most of them spent gravely ill on dialysis.
5. 1216 The charter reissued for a boy king Ten days after Henry III's coronation, the regent William Marshal reissues Magna Carta in the young king's name — the rebels' own programme, adopted by the crown to cut the ground
6. 1925 Louis Armstrong's Hot Five recordings Jazz recordings that elevated the soloist as the genre's central figure.
7. 1912 The search party finds the tent Eight months on, a search party from the base camp finds the tent, the three bodies, the diaries and the letters — and 35 pounds of Glossopteris fossils the dying men had refused t
8. 1815 Born: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Principal author of the Declaration of Sentiments and intellectual leader of the American women's movement.
9. 1915 Born: Roland Barthes Semiotician and literary critic.
10. 1921 Washington Naval Conference First major arms-control conference; limits naval tonnage among great powers.
11. 2008 Slumdog Millionaire (Indian connection) Anglo-Indian film wins 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, A. R. Rahman's score.
12. 2014 Rosetta lands on a comet After a ten-year chase, ESA's Philae bounces to rest on comet 67P — humanity's first landing on a comet, run from Darmstadt not Houston.