Historical Events In February - 12
Monday, 25 September 2023
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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