The current calendar page for November 12, 2025
Name day
Diego, Kunibert, Lewin
Historical data
2024 – Tech billionaire Elon Musk is expected to help US President-elect Donald Trump cut government spending. He will be part of the leadership of a newly created advisory body that will not be part of the government.
2015 – Police find eight baby bodies in a house in Wallenfels, Upper Franconia (Bavaria). They are wrapped in towels and plastic bags. The children’s mother was sentenced to 14 years in prison for manslaughter in 2016.
1990 – Emperor Akihito is enthroned as the 125th Japanese monarch in Tokyo. He had already taken over the official duties after the death of his father Hirohito on January 7, 1989. At the end of April 2019, he abdicated in favor of his son Naruhito.
1970 – A cyclone with 230 kilometers per hour and meter-high tidal waves hits Bangladesh (then East Pakistan). At least 300,000 people die in the densely populated Ganges Delta in the most disastrous cyclone in recent history.
1955 – Federal Defense Minister Theodor Blank (CDU) presents the first 101 volunteers of what later became the Bundeswehr with their appointment certificates. This officially completes the founding of the Bundeswehr.
Birthdays
1980 – Ryan Gosling (45), Canadian actor (“Barbie”, “La La Land”, “Drive”)
[1945-NeilYoung(80)Canadianrockmusician(“HeartofGold”)
1940 – Jürgen Todenhöfer (85), German politician, publishing manager and author (“Why do you kill, Zaid?”, “Andy and Marwa”), deputy publishing director of Burda GmbH 1987-2008, CDU member of the Bundestag 1972-1990
1925 – Heinz Schubert, German actor (“Repulsion Alfred” in the TV series “A Heart and a Soul”), died 1999
Days of death
2000 – Lea Rabin, Israeli author, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Izchak Rabin, born 1928
