Today is Saturday, Nov. 12, the 317th day of 2016. There are 49 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Rhythm-and-blues singer Jimmy Hayes (Persuasions) is 73. Actor-playwright Wallace Shawn is 73. Rock musician Booker T. Jones (Booker T. the MGs) is 72. Sportscaster Al Michaels is 72. Singer-songwriter Neil Young is 71. Actress Megan Mullally is 58. Actor Vincent Irizarry is 57. Olympic gold medal gymnast Nadia Comaneci is 55. Figure skater Tonya Harding is 46. Actor Ryan Gosling is 36. Actress Anne Hathaway is 34. Pop singer Omarion is 32.

In 1866, Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen, the first provisional president of the Republic of China, was born.

In 1927, Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.

In 1936, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened.

In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.

In 1958, James Michael Curley, a political icon in Massachusetts, died at the age of 83.

In 1961, the Lieutenant William F. Callahan Tunnel connecting downtown to East Boston opened after two years of construction.

In 1969, news of the My Lai Massacre in South Vietnam was broken by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.

In 1977, the city of New Orleans elected its first black mayor, Ernest ‘‘Dutch’’ Morial.