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Events on November 12

• 1848 The Frankfurt National Assembly passes the law concerning a German war and merchant flag, which stipulates the colors black-red-gold as a national symbol for the first time.
• 1863 The first national Red Cross society is founded with the Württemberg Sanitary Association.
• 1918 Women receive the active and passive right to vote in Germany through the Council of People's Representatives.
• 1918 In Vienna, the approximately 600-year rule of the Habsburgs in Austria ends with the proclamation of the Republic of German-Austria.
• 1938 With the decree aimed at excluding Jews from German economic life, the Aryanization during National Socialism comes to an end.
• 1955 Handover of the commissioning certificates to the first 101 Bundeswehr volunteers in Andernach: 2 lieutenant generals (Hans Speidel and Adolf Heusinger), 48 staff officers, 40 captains, 5 first lieutenants and 6 noncommissioned officers.
• 1987 The Frankfurt Opera is destroyed by arson. The rebuilding costs 170 million Deutsche Marks.
• 1990 The clearance of three occupied houses in Berlin leads to solidarity actions in the area of the then largely occupied Mainzer Straße. The subsequent clashes between the squatters and the police culminate two days later in the clearance of Mainzer Straße.
• 1992 A trial begins against former state and party leader Erich Honecker and five other senior SED figures over the order to shoot at the inner German border.
• 2004 After the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, which burned down on 29 January 1996, opened as a concert hall on 14 December of the previous year, opera operations are also resumed with the most modern stage machinery in the world at the time.
• 2011 Silvio Berlusconi concludes his final term as Prime Minister of Italy by formally submitting his resignation after criticism of the consequences of his government's course in light of the Euro crisis.
• 2014 The Philae lander of the ESA Rosetta space probe lands successfully on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Born on November 12

• 1881 Ulrich von Hassell, German diplomat and resistance fighter of 20 July 1944
• 1910 Kurt Hoffmann, German film director
• 1920 Lotte Brainin, Austrian resistance fighter against National Socialism, witness and Holocaust survivor
• 1930 Tonke Dragt, Dutch children's and young adult author
• 1940 Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician, manager and author
• 1961 Nadia Comăneci, Romanian artistic gymnast
• 1970 Tonya Harding, American figure skater
• 1980 Ryan Gosling, American actor
• 1980 Gustaf Skarsgård, Swedish actor
• 1990 Florent Manaudou, French swimmer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „12. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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