Page 7: Historical Events In February - 12

1944  On February - 12 wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race   

1945  On February - 12 san Francisco selected for site of UN Conference   

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

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

1946  On this day in history world War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.   

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

1947  Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands on February - 12.   

1947  Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia on this day in history.   

1947  Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1948  On this day in history 1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps   

1949  On February - 12 "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  Ottawa announces creation of a far northern radar chain later called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line on this day in history.   

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

1949  On February - 12 unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem   

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

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

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

1950  On this day in history senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees   

1953  On this day in history uSSR breaks relations with Israel   

1954  Dziga Vertov, [Kaufman], Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58 on this day in history.   

1955  McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 &stays #1 for 10 weeks on February - 12.   

1955  On this day in history president Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam   

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

1955  Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71 on February - 12.   

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  On this day in history marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88   

1960  Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers on this day in history.   

1960  Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown), dies at 71 on February - 12.   

1961  On February - 12 first spacecraft to the planet Venus launched   

1961  On this day in history uSSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus   

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

1963  On February - 12 argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron   

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1074  On this day in history birth of conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101)   

1211  On this day in history birth of henry VII, Roman catholic German king (1220-35)   

1218  Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256) was born on this day in history.   

1438  Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen was born on this day in history.   

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  Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring) was born on this day in history.   

1585  Caspar Bartholin, Malmö , physician, theologian, writer on anatomy was born on February - 12.   

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  Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57 on February - 12.   

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

1571  On this day in history death of nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)   

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

1595  On this day in history death of archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553)   

1616  On February - 12 john Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65