Historical Events In February - 12

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

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

1945  SF selected for site of UN Conference on this day in history.  

1945  ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed on this day in history.  

1946  World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72  

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

1949  On February - 12 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances  

1949  Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0 on February - 12.  

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

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

1949  Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem on February - 12.  

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

1950  On this day in history albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb  

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

1950  On February - 12 senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees  

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 this day in history.  

1955  On this day in history president Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam  

1955  On February - 12 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  Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed on this day in history.  

1957  On February - 12 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 this day in history chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers  

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 this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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  Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician was born on this day in history.  

1584  Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring) was born on February - 12.  

1585  Caspar Bartholin, Malmö , physician, theologian, writer on anatomy was born on this day in history.  

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  Death of Jane Grey, queen of England for 9 days, beheaded at 17 on February - 12.  

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 this day in history john Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65