Page 7: Historical Events In February - 12

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

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

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

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

1946  On this day in history world War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.   

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 February - 12.   

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

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

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

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

1949  On February - 12 canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0.   

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

1949  On this day in history panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio   

1949  On February - 12 unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem   

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 February - 12 uSSR breaks relations with Israel   

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

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  Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed on this day in history.   

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

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

1960  On February - 12 chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers   

1960  On February - 12 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  Bus boycott starts in Macon GA on February - 12.   

1963  Argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron on this day in history.   

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1074  Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101) was born on February - 12.   

1211  Henry VII, Roman catholic German king (1220-35) was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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  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  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  Death of Jane Grey, queen of England for 9 days, beheaded at 17 on February - 12.   

1571  On February - 12 death of nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)   

1590  On February - 12 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  On this day in history john Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65