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 this day in history 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  Daytime fireball &meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia on February - 12.   

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

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

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

1949  On this day in history canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0.   

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 this day in history.   

1949  On this day in history unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem   

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

1950  On February - 12 albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb   

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

1950  Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees on this day in history.   

1953  On February - 12 uSSR breaks relations with Israel   

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

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  Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan on this day in history.   

1955  On February - 12 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  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 February - 12.   

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

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

1961  First spacecraft to the planet Venus launched on this day in history.   

1961  On February - 12 uSSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus   

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 this day in history.   

1567  Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician was born on February - 12.   

1584  On this day in history 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 February - 12.   

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  Death of Jane Grey, queen of England for 9 days, beheaded at 17 on this day in history.   

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

1590  On this day in history francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65   

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

1616  John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65 on this day in history.