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What happened on November 12 in American history
November 12 is the 316th day of the year (the 317th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 6 stories from November 12 spanning 1969 to 2022. Among them: in 1969, Seymour Hersh's story of the My Lai killings goes out to American newspapers; and in 1971, Nixon sets a February 1 deadline to bring home another 45,000 troops from Vietnam.
1969
Seymour Hersh's story of the My Lai killings goes out to American newspapers
Twenty months after Charlie Company entered the village, an independent reporter puts the massacre of civilians in front of American readers.
1971Member story · 1776 Club
Nixon sets a February 1 deadline to bring home another 45,000 troops from Vietnam
The order extends Vietnamization, the plan to shift the ground war onto South Vietnam's own army.
1979Member story · 1776 Club
Carter orders a halt to all Iranian oil imports, eight days into the embassy standoff
With 66 Americans held inside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, the White House reaches for an economic lever.
1997
Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the World Trade Center bombing
After a Manhattan trial that opened August 3 and called more than 100 witnesses, the planner of the 1993 van bomb is convicted.
2001Member story · 1776 Club
Taliban fighters pull out of Kabul as the Northern Alliance closes in
Five weeks after the first U.S. air strikes, Mullah Omar's government leaves its capital to the advancing Afghan force.
2022
Two warbirds collide above 4,000 spectators at the Wings Over Dallas airshow
A P-63 Kingcobra banking toward the runway strikes the lead B-17 from above; all six aboard both aircraft are killed.
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