Historical Events In February - 12

1944  On this day in history wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race  

1945  San Francisco selected for site of UN Conference on February - 12.  

1945  On February - 12 sF selected for site of UN Conference  

1945  On this day in history ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed  

1946  World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats on February - 12.  

1947  On this day in history daytime fireball &meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia  

1947  On this day in history record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands  

1947  Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia on February - 12.  

1947  On February - 12 sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72  

1948  On February - 12 1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps  

1949  On this day in history "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances  

1949  Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0 on this day in history.  

1949  On February - 12 ottawa announces creation of a far northern radar chain later called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line.  

1949  On February - 12 panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio  

1949  Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem on this day in history.  

1949  "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 perfs on this day in history.  

1950  Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb on February - 12.  

1950  On February - 12 albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb.  

1950  On February - 12 senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees  

1953  USSR breaks relations with Israel on this day in history.  

1954  Dziga Vertov, [Kaufman], Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58 on February - 12.  

1955  On this day in history mcGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 &stays #1 for 10 weeks  

1955  On February - 12 president Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam  

1955  On February - 12 soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan  

1955  On this day in history tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71  

1957  Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed on February - 12.  

1957  Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82 on this day in history.  

1958  Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88 on February - 12.  

1960  On February - 12 chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers  

1960  Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown), dies at 71 on this day in history.  

1961  First spacecraft to the planet Venus launched on February - 12.  

1961  USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus on February - 12.  

1962  Bus boycott starts in Macon GA on February - 12.  

1963  On this day in history argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron  

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1074  Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101) was born on February - 12.  

1211  Henry VII, Roman catholic German king (1220-35) was born on February - 12.  

1218  On this day in history birth of kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)  

1438  On February - 12 birth of adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen  

1474  On this day in history birth of lorenzo Campeggi(o), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat  

1567  On February - 12 birth of thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician  

1584  On February - 12 birth of casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring)  

1585  Caspar Bartholin, Malmö , physician, theologian, writer on anatomy was born on this day in history.  

1128  Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies on this day in history.  

1242  Death of Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide on February - 12.  

1538  On this day in history albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57  

1554  Death of Jane Grey, queen of England for 9 days, beheaded at 17 on February - 12.  

1571  On February - 12 death of nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)  

1590  Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65 on February - 12.  

1595  Death of Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553) on this day in history.  

1616  John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65 on February - 12.