February 12
February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 322 days remaining, 323 in
leap years.
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Events
\n* 1541 - Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.\n* 1554 - Nine days after claiming the throne of England, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason. \n* 1733 - Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13th and final American colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah. \n* 1737 - The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated.\n*1817 - Chilean patriotic army, after cross the Andes, defeat Spanish troops on the battle of Chacabuco\n* 1818 - Bernardo O'Higgins signs the Indepence the Chile near Concepcion, Chile\n* 1825 - The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west.\n* 1832 - Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands.\n* 1870 - Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory. \n* 1879 - At New York City's Madison Square Garden the first artificial ice rink in North America opens. \n* 1892 - Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States. \n* 1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.\n* 1912 - China adopts the Gregorian calendar.\n* 1915 - In Washington, DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place. \n* 1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio. \n* 1934 - The Export-Import Bank is incorporated. \n* 1938 - World War II: German troops enter Austria.\n* 1951 - Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari marries the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi at Golestan Palace in Teheran at age of 17.\n* 1973 - Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in metric on signs. \n* 1973 - Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong. \n* 1994 - 1994 Winter Olympics open in Lillehammer, Norway.\n* 1998 - The presidential line-item veto is declared unconstitutional by United States federal judge. \n* 1999 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.\n* 2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. \n* 2002 - The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.\n* 2002 - Nuclear waste: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear repository.\n* 2002 - An Iran Air Tours (subsidiary of Iran Air) Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran, killing 119
Births
\n* 1567 - Thomas Campion, composer, poet (d. 1620)\n* 1637 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (d. 1680)\n* 1768 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1835)\n* 1775 - Louisa Adams, First Lady, wife of President John Quincy Adams (d. 1852)\n* 1777 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, poet (d. 1843)\n* 1809 - Charles Darwin, naturalist (d. 1882)\n* 1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)\n* 1861 - Lou Andreas-Salome, author (d. 1937)\n* 1880 - John L. Lewis, labor union leader (d. 1969)\n* 1881 - Anna Pavlova, ballerina (d. 1931)\n* 1884 - Max Beckmann, painter and graphic artist (d. 1950)\n* 1884 - Marie Vassilieff, artist (d. 1957)\n* 1893 - Omar Bradley, general (d. 1981)\n* 1912 - R. F. Delderfield, author (d. 1972)\n* 1914 - Tex Beneke, musician, band leader (d. 2000)\n* 1915 - Lorne Greene, actor (d. 1987)\n* 1919 - Forrest Tucker, actor (d. 1986)\n* 1923 - Franco Zeffirelli, film director\n* 1925 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (d. 1984)\n* 1926 - Paul Kurtz, philosopher, founder of numerous secular humanist groups\n* 1932 - Julian Simon, economist, author (d. 1998)\n* 1933 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer\n* 1934 - Bill Russell, basketball star\n* 1937 - Charles Dumas, American high jumper\n* 1938 - Judy Blume, author\n* 1939 - Ray Manzarek, keyboardist\n* 1942 - Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel\n* 1943 - Samuel Karokikki, athlet\n* 1950 - Michael Ironside, actor\n* 1954 - Philip Zimmermann, cryptographer\n* 1955 - Arsenio Hall, actor, talk show host\n* 1969 - Hong Myung-Bo, South Korean football player\n* 1976 - Sylvia Saint, Porn star\n* 1980 - Christina Ricci, actress\n* 1980 - Juan Carlos Ferrero, tennis player
Deaths
\n* 1554 - Lady Jane Grey, briefly Queen of England (beheaded) (b. 1537)\n* 1612 - Christopher Clavius, astronomer\n* 1771 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (b. 1710)\n* 1799 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, biologist(b. 1729)\n* 1804 - Immanuel Kant, philosopher\n* 1916 - Richard Dedekind, mathematician (b. 1831)\n* 1929 - Lily Langtry, singer, actress\n* 1954 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896)\n* 1971 - James C. Penney, department store founder (b. 1875)\n* 1976 - Sal Mineo, actor (b. 1939)\n* 1979 - Jean Renoir, director (b. 1894)\n* 1982 - Victor Jory, actor\n* 1983 - Eubie Blake, musician, songwriter (b. 1883 or 1887)\n* 1984 - Julio Cortázar, author, intellectual (b. 1914)\n* 1993 - James Bulger, abduction/murder victim (b. 1990)\n* 1995 - Robert Bolt, writer (b. 1924)\n* 1996 - Bob Shaw, science fiction author (b. 1931)\n* 2000 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, musician (b. 1929)\n* 2000 - Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)\n* 2000 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip (b. 1922)
Holidays and observances
\n* United States - Lincoln's Birthday (traditionally)\n* 2002 Chinese New Year\n* 1991, 2002, 2013 Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)\n* Georgia Day in the U.S. state of Georgia\n* National Freedom to Marry Day (unofficial)
February 11 -
February 13 -
January 12 -
March 12 --
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