Page 7: Historical Events In February - 12

1944  On this day in history wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race   

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

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

1945  ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed on February - 12.   

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

1947  On February - 12 daytime fireball &meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia   

1947  Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands on February - 12.   

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

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

1949  Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1953  On this day in history uSSR breaks relations with Israel   

1954  On February - 12 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 February - 12.   

1955  President Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam on February - 12.   

1955  On February - 12 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 this day in history.   

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

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

1961  USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus on this day in history.   

1962  Bus boycott starts in Macon GA on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1211  On this day in history 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  Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen was born on this day in history.   

1474  On this day in history birth of lorenzo Campeggi(o), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat   

1567  On this day in history birth of thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician   

1584  Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring) was born on this day in history.   

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

1128  On this day in history toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies   

1242  On this day in history death of hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide   

1538  On this day in history albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57   

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 February - 12.   

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