NOVEMBER 12
1977:Ernest Morial is elected as the first African American mayor of New Orleans. Exactly eight years later, another U.S. city marks a historic milestone, when Xavier Suarez is elected as the first Cuban American mayor of Miami.
2003:Shanghai Transrapid sets new commercial railway world speed record (311 mph)
1892: William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional football player, when the Yale All-American is paid more than $500 in cash to play for the Allegheny Athletic Association against the rival Pittsburgh Athletic Club at Recreation Park in Pittsburgh. Allegheny wins, 4-0.
1912: A search party led by British Navy Lt. Edward Atkinson discovers the frozen bodies of British explorer Capt. Robert Falcon Scott and two of his companions at the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, where they had perished eight months earlier after unsuccessfully racing their Norwegian rivals, led by Roald Amundsen, to become the first men to reach the South Pole. The bodies of two other men who had accompanied Scott would never be found.
1954:Ellis Island shuts its doors.
1927:Holland Tunnel which connects New York & New Jersey, first opens
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