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November 12

• 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang dynasty, for fifteen days.
• 1941 - World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12°C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
• 1941 - Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina was destroyed during the battle of Sevastopol.
• 1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal, will last for three days.
• 1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force launches one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz off the coast of Norway.
• 1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
• 1969 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.