Page 7: Historical Events In February - 12
Friday, 11 July 2025
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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