Historical Events In February - 12

1944  Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race on February - 12.   

1945  On this day in history san Francisco selected for site of UN Conference   

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

1945  On February - 12 ... 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  On February - 12 daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia   

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

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

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

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

1949  On February - 12 unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem   

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  On this day in history 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  USSR breaks relations with Israel on February - 12.   

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 February - 12 president Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam   

1955  On this day in history soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan   

1955  On February - 12 tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71   

1957  Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed on this day in history.   

1957  Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82 on February - 12.   

1958  On this day in history marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88   

1960  On February - 12 chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers   

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

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 this day in history bus boycott starts in Macon GA   

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

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1074  Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101) was born on February - 12.   

1211  Henry VII, Roman catholic German king (1220-35) was born on February - 12.   

1218  Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256) was born on February - 12.   

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 February - 12.   

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

1584  On February - 12 birth of casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring)   

1585  On this day in history birth of caspar Bartholin, Malmö , physician, theologian, writer on anatomy   

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 this day in history.   

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

1554  Death of Jane Grey, queen of England for 9 days, beheaded at 17 on this day in history.   

1571  On this day in history 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 February - 12 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