Page 7: Historical Events In February - 12

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

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

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

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 this day in history.   

1949  On February - 12 unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem   

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

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 this day in history.   

1954  Dziga Vertov, [Kaufman], Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58 on February - 12.   

1955  On February - 12 mcGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 &stays #1 for 10 weeks   

1955  President Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam on this day in history.   

1955  Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan on this day in history.   

1955  Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71 on February - 12.   

1957  Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed on February - 12.   

1957  On this day in history johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82   

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  On this day in history bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown), dies at 71   

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  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 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 February - 12.   

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 this day in history birth of casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring)   

1585  Caspar Bartholin, Malmö , physician, theologian, writer on anatomy was born on February - 12.   

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

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  On this day in history francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65   

1595  On this day in history death of archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553)   

1616  John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65 on this day in history.