Page 7: Historical Events In February - 12

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

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

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

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

1947  Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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 February - 12.   

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

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

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  On February - 12 albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb   

1950  Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb on this day in history.   

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

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  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 this day in history.   

1955  On this day in history 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  On this day in history researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed   

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

1958  On February - 12 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 this day in history.   

1961  On this day in history first spacecraft to the planet Venus launched   

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

1962  On February - 12 bus boycott starts in Macon GA   

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

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

1211  On February - 12 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  On February - 12 birth of adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen   

1474  Lorenzo Campeggi(o), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat was born on February - 12.   

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  On February - 12 birth of caspar Bartholin, Malmö , physician, theologian, writer on anatomy   

1128  On February - 12 toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies   

1242  On February - 12 death of hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide   

1538  Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1590  Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.