Page 7: Historical Events In February - 12

1944  Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1947  On February - 12 record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands   

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

1947  Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72 on February - 12.   

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

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

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 this day in history panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio   

1949  On this day in history unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem   

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 this day in history.   

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

1950  Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees on February - 12.   

1953  USSR breaks relations with Israel on February - 12.   

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

1955  McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 &stays #1 for 10 weeks on this day in history.   

1955  President Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam on February - 12.   

1955  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1957  On this day in history johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82   

1958  Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88 on this day in history.   

1960  On February - 12 chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers   

1960  On this day in history bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown), dies at 71   

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

1961  On February - 12 uSSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus   

1962  Bus boycott starts in Macon GA on this day in history.   

1963  Argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron on February - 12.   

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1074  On February - 12 birth of conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101)   

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 this day in history birth of adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen   

1474  Lorenzo Campeggi(o), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1128  On this day in history toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies   

1242  Death of Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide on this day in history.   

1538  On February - 12 albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57   

1554  On February - 12 death of jane Grey, queen of England for 9 days, beheaded at 17   

1571  Death of Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515) on February - 12.   

1590  On February - 12 francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65   

1595  Death of Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553) on February - 12.   

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