Historical Events In February - 12

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

1945  On February - 12 san Francisco selected for site of UN Conference   

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  On February - 12 world War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.   

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  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 this day in history.   

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 February - 12.   

1949  Ottawa announces creation of a far northern radar chain later called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line on February - 12.   

1949  On February - 12 panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio   

1949  Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem on this day in history.   

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

1950  On February - 12 albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb   

1950  On February - 12 albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb.   

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

1955  Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan on February - 12.   

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 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 February - 12.   

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 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  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  Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring) was born on February - 12.   

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  On February - 12 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  Death of Jane Grey, queen of England for 9 days, beheaded at 17 on this day in history.   

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

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  On this day in history john Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65