February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 322 days remaining, 323 in leap years.

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Contents

1 Events 1.1 up to 19th century 1.2 20th century 1.3 21st century 2 Births 2.1 up to 19th century 2.2 20th century 2.2.1 1900-1949 2.2.2 1950-1999 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

up to 19th century

• 1541 - Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
• 1554 - Nine days after claiming the throne of England, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
• 1719 - The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest still existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded
• 1733 - Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13^th and final American colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah.
• 1737 - The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated.
• 1817 - Chilean patriotic army, after cross the Andes, defeat Spanish troops on the battle of Chacabuco
• 1818 - Bernardo O'Higgins signs the Indepence of Chile near Concepcion, Chile
• 1825 - The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west.
• 1832 - Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands.
• 1870 - Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory.
• 1879 - At New York City's Madison Square Garden the first artificial ice rink in North America opens.
• 1892 - Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States.

20th century

• 1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
• 1912 - China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
• 1915 - In Washington, DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
• 1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
• 1934 - The Export-Import Bank is incorporated.
• 1938 - Anschluss: German troops enter Austria.
• 1951 - Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari marries the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi at Golestan Palace in Teheran at age of 17.
• 1973 - Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in SI units on signs.
• 1973 - Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.
• 1994 - 1994 Winter Olympics open in Lillehammer, Norway.
• 1998 - The presidential line-item veto is declared unconstitutional by United States federal judge.
• 1999 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.

21st century

• 2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
• 2002
  • The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
  • Nuclear waste: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear repository.
  • An Iran Air Tours (subsidiary of Iran Air) Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran, killing 119

Births

up to 19th century

• 1567 - Thomas Campion, composer, poet (d. 1620)
• 1637 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (d. 1680)
• 1768 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1835)
• 1775 - Louisa Adams, First Lady, wife of President John Quincy Adams (d. 1852)
• 1777 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, poet (d. 1843)
• 1809
  • Charles Darwin, naturalist (d. 1882)
  • Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)
• 1861 - Lou Andreas-Salome, author (d. 1937)
• 1865 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, full name Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish poet and writer (d. 1940)
• 1880 - John L. Lewis, labor union leader (d. 1969)
• 1881 - Anna Pavlova, ballerina (d. 1931)
• 1884
  • Max Beckmann, painter and graphic artist (d. 1950)
  • Marie Vassilieff, artist (d. 1957)
• 1893 - Omar Bradley, general (d. 1981)

20th century

1900-1949

• 1912 - R. F. Delderfield, author (d. 1972)
• 1914 - Tex Beneke , musician, band leader (d. 2000)
• 1915 - Lorne Greene, actor (d. 1987)
• 1919 - Forrest Tucker, actor (d. 1986)
• 1920 - William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian and professor of Church history emeritus at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (d. 2000)
• 1923 - Franco Zeffirelli, film director
• 1925 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (d. 1984)
• 1926 - Paul Kurtz, philosopher, founder of numerous secular humanist groups
• 1931 - Janwillem van de Wetering, author
• 1932 - Julian Simon, economist, author (d. 1998)
• 1933 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer
• 1934 - Bill Russell, basketball star
• 1937 - Charles Dumas, American high jumper
• 1938 - Judy Blume, author
• 1939 - Ray Manzarek, keyboardist
• 1942 - Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
• 1943 - Samuel Karokikki, athlete
• 1975 - Fausto Pasqualetti

1950-1999

• 1950 - Michael Ironside, actor
• 1953 - Joanna Kerns, American television actress (Growing Pains) and director
• 1954 - Philip Zimmermann, cryptographer
• 1955 - Arsenio Hall, actor, talk show host
• 1967 - Chris McKinstry, computer scientist, Artificial Intelligence, Mindpixel
• 1969 - Hong Myung-Bo, South Korean football player
• 1970 - Jim Creeggan , bass player for Barenaked Ladies
• 1976 - Sylvia Saint, Porn star
• 1980
  • Christina Ricci, actress
  • Juan Carlos Ferrero, tennis player
• 1981 - Tobias Roberson , Middle Eastern percussionist

Deaths

• 1538 - Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter
• 1554 - Lady Jane Grey, briefly Queen of England (beheaded) (b. 1537)
• 1595 - Archduke Ernest of Austria, governor of the Spanish Netherlands
• 1612 - Christopher Clavius, astronomer
• 1771 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (b. 1710)
• 1799 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, biologist (b. 1729)
• 1804 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher
• 1916 - Richard Dedekind, mathematician (b. 1831)
• 1929 - Lily Langtry , singer, actress
• 1951 - Choudhary Rahmat Ali, founding father of Pakistan (b. 1895)
• 1954 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896)
• 1971 - James C. Penney, department store founder (b. 1875)
• 1976 - Sal Mineo, actor (b. 1939)
• 1979 - Jean Renoir, director (b. 1894)
• 1982 - Victor Jory , actor
• 1983 - Eubie Blake, musician, songwriter (b. 1883 or 1887)
• 1984 - Julio Cortázar, author, intellectual (b. 1914)
• 1993 - James Bulger, abduction/murder victim (b. 1990)
• 1995 - Robert Bolt, writer (b. 1924)
• 1996 - Bob Shaw, science fiction author (b. 1931)
• 2000
  • Screamin' Jay Hawkins, musician (b. 1929)
  • Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
  • Charles M. Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip (b. 1922)
• 2001 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (b. 1912)

Holidays and observances

• United States - Lincoln's Birthday (traditionally)
• 1991, 2002, 2013 Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
• Georgia Day in the U.S. state of Georgia
• National Freedom to Marry Day (unofficial)

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