November 12: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
2. 1602 - Sebastian Viscaino lands at and names San Diego, California.
3. 1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
4. 1936 - In California, the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
5. 1958 - A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
6. 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: in response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
7. 1980 - The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach toSaturn and takes the first images of its rings.
8. 1981 - Space Shuttle program: mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
9. 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
10. 2003 - Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
11. Famous Birthdays: Louis Antoine de Bougainville (French explorer), Thaddeus William Harris (American naturalist), Auguste Rodin (French sculptor), John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (English physicist, Nobel laureate), DeWitt Wallace (American magazine publisher)

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