Page 7: Historical Events In February - 12

1944  Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race on February - 12.   

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

1945  On February - 12 sF selected for site of UN Conference   

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 February - 12.   

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

1947  On February - 12 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  "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances on this day in history.   

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  On February - 12 panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio   

1949  On this day in history unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem   

1949  On February - 12 "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  Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees on this day in history.   

1953  On this day in history uSSR breaks relations with Israel   

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

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  On February - 12 researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed   

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  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 February - 12.   

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 February - 12 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  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 February - 12.   

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

1584  On February - 12 birth of casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring)   

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

1128  Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies on February - 12.   

1242  Death of Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide on this day in history.   

1538  Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57 on February - 12.   

1554  On February - 12 death of jane Grey, queen of England for 9 days, beheaded at 17   

1571  On this day in history death of nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)   

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

1595  Death of Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553) on this day in history.   

1616  John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65 on February - 12.