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 February - 12.   

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

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 this day in history record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands   

1947  On February - 12 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 this day in history.   

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  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  Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb on February - 12.   

1950  Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb on February - 12.   

1950  Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees on February - 12.   

1953  On this day in history uSSR breaks relations with Israel   

1954  On this day in history dziga Vertov, [Kaufman], Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58   

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 this day in history.   

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

1957  On February - 12 johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82   

1958  On February - 12 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 this day in history.   

1961  On February - 12 first spacecraft to the planet Venus launched   

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 this day in history argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron   

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1074  On February - 12 birth of conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101)   

1211  On February - 12 birth of henry VII, Roman catholic German king (1220-35)   

1218  On this day in history birth of kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)   

1438  On this day in history birth of adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen   

1474  On February - 12 birth of lorenzo Campeggi(o), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat   

1567  On February - 12 birth of thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician   

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 this day in history.   

1128  On February - 12 toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies   

1242  Death of Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide on February - 12.   

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 February - 12 death of nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)   

1590  Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65 on February - 12.   

1595  On this day in history 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