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• ...that the Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse is an Art Deco skyscraper adorned with artwork by Lee Lawrie, Carl Milles, John W. Norton, and Albert Stewart?
• ...that Ève Curie did not receive a Nobel Prize, unlike her parents Marie and Pierre, her sister Irène, and her husband Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr.?
• ...that Bangalore Gayana Samaja, which celebrated its centenary in 2005, is one of the oldest cultural organisations in Bangalore?
• ...that Gerald Long, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, is believed to be the only Long family member to have held significant public office in Louisiana outside the Democratic Party?
• ...that after Robert de Ferrers, the 6th Earl of Derby was pardoned for his part in a civil war against King Edward I, he did it again?
• ...that the veneration of Saints Felinus and Gratian, which has a weak historical foundation, has been alleged to have been created to further the interests of Perugia?
• ...that Susan Hadden, an Internet affairs advisor to Al Gore, was killed by bandits while visiting Angkor Wat?
• ...that wine from the Greek island of Chios, prized in both classical Greece and ancient Rome, was according to mythology the first red wine?
  

• Former Slovenian presidential election frontrunner, conservative Lojze Peterle, concedes as left-wing candidate Danilo Türk wins in a landslide.
• More than 10,000 people in Kuala Lumpur participate in an illegal peaceful rally (pictured) against corruption in the electoral process in Malaysia.
• A children's toy is subject to a worldwide recall after it was found to contain a chemical that metabolises into the anaesthetic GHB, which has caused the hospitalisation of several children.
• Glasgow is chosen to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games after voting by the Commonwealth Games Federation in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• In Belgium, government formation negotiations have gone on for a record 150 days as Dutch- and French-speaking politicians clash over the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde electoral district.

November 12: Birth of Bahá'u'lláh, a holy day in the Bahá'í Faith.

• 1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe married Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII.
• 1893 – Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, signed the Durand Line Agreement, establishing what is now the international border between Afghanistan and modern-day Pakistan.
• 1927 – Leon Trotsky (pictured) was expelled from the Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
• 1936 – The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Oakland, California across San Francisco Bay, opened to traffic.
• 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon with explosives, leading to the exploding whale incident.

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