Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 12

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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