WEDNESDAY, Nov. 12, 2025

1767-Meeting of the Royal Society appoints James Cook as head of an expedition to the Pacific Ocean to observe the transit of Venus on Tahiti in 1769 (will be Cook's 1st voyage aboard HMS Endeavour) 1833-The great Leonid Meteor shower recorded 1880-Best-selling American novel "Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ" by soldier Lew Wallace is published 1900-Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris closes after 50 million visitors - Art Nouveau style dominates 1927-Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power 1948-Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal 1970-Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing up to 500,000 people, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded 1990-The World Wide Web is first proposed by CERN computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau 1998-Vice President of the United States, Al Gore, symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol, but the U.S. never ratifies it 2001-Taliban forces abandon Afghanistan's capital Kabul, ahWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times