Page 7: Historical Events In February - 12

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

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

1945  SF selected for site of UN Conference on February - 12.   

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

1946  World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats on February - 12.   

1947  Daytime fireball &meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia on this day in history.   

1947  Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands on this day in history.   

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

1947  Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72 on February - 12.   

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

1949  On this day in history "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 February - 12.   

1949  Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem on this day in history.   

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

1950  On February - 12 albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb   

1950  Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb on this day in history.   

1950  On this day in history senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees   

1953  On February - 12 uSSR breaks relations with Israel   

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

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

1955  On February - 12 president Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam   

1955  On February - 12 soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan   

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  Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82 on February - 12.   

1958  Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88 on February - 12.   

1960  Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers on February - 12.   

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  USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus on February - 12.   

1962  On this day in history bus boycott starts in Macon GA   

1963  Argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron on February - 12.   

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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  On February - 12 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  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  Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring) was born on this day in history.   

1585  Caspar Bartholin, Malmö , physician, theologian, writer on anatomy was born on this day in history.   

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  On February - 12 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  On this day in history francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65   

1595  On February - 12 death of archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553)   

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