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Information about February 12


February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are


322 days remaining, 323 in leap years.


Events


   * 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.


   * 1733 - English colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.


   * 1818 - Chile gains its independence from Spain


   * 1825 - Creek Indians 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.


   * 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 - World War II: German troops enter Austria


   * 1973 - Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in metric on


     signs.


   * 1973 - Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released by


     the Viet Cong.


   * 1994 - 1994 Winter Olympic Games 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


   * 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 Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic


     begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague


   * 2002 - Nuclear waste: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that


     Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear repository.


Births


   * 1567 - Thomas Campion, composer, poet


   * 1768 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (+ 1835)


   * 1775 - Louisa Adams, First Lady, wife of President John Quincy Adams


   * 1777 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, poet (+ 1843)


   * 1809 - Charles Darwin, naturalist


   * 1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (+ 1865)


   * 1861 - Lou Andreas-Salome, author (+ 1937)


   * 1880 - John L. Lewis, labor union leader (+ 1969)


   * 1881 - Anna Pavlova, ballerina (+ 1931)


   * 1884 - Max Beckmann, painter and graphic artist (+ 1950)


   * 1884 - Marie Vassilieff, artist (+ 1957)


   * 1893 - Omar Bradley, general (+ 1981)


   * 1914 - Tex Beneke, musician, band leader (+ 2000)


   * 1915 - Lorne Greene, actor (+ 1987)


   * 1919 - Forrest Tucker, actor (+ 1986)


   * 1923 - Franco Zeffirelli, film director


   * 1925 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (+ 1984)


   * 1933 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer


   * 1934 - Bill Russell, basketball star


   * 1938 - Judy Blume, author


   * 1939 - Ray Manzarek, keyboardist


   * 1942 - Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel


   * 1950 - Michael Ironside, actor


   * 1954 - Philip Zimmermann, cryptographer


   * 1955 - Arsenio Hall, actor, talk show host


   * 1980 - Christina Ricci, actress


Deaths


   * 1554 - Lady Jane Grey, briefly Queen of England


   * 1916 - Richard Dedekind, mathematician


   * 1929 - Lily Langtry, singer, actress


   * 1954 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker


   * 1976 - Sal Mineo, actor


   * 1979 - Jean Renoir, director


   * 1982 - Victor Jory, actor


   * 1983 - Eubie Blake, musician, songwriter


   * 1995 - Robert Bolt, writer (+ 1995)


   * 2000 - Charles Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip


   * 2000 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, musician


   * 2000 - Tom Landry, American football coach


Holidays and observances


   * United States - Lincoln's Birthday (traditionally)


   * 2002 Chinese new year


   * 1991, 2002, 2013 Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)

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