Page 7: Historical Events In February - 12

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

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

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

1945  On this day in history ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed   

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

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

1947  Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands on February - 12.   

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

1947  Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1948  On this day in history 1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps   

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

1949  Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem   

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

1950  On February - 12 albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb   

1950  On this day in history albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb.   

1950  Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees on this day in history.   

1953  On February - 12 uSSR breaks relations with Israel   

1954  Dziga Vertov, [Kaufman], Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58 on February - 12.   

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

1955  President Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam on February - 12.   

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

1955  On February - 12 tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71   

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  On February - 12 marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88   

1960  Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers on this day in history.   

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 February - 12.   

1961  On February - 12 uSSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus   

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  On this day in history birth of conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101)   

1211  On this day in history 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  Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen was born on February - 12.   

1474  Lorenzo Campeggi(o), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat was born on this day in history.   

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  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  Death of Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide on this day in history.   

1538  On this day in history albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57   

1554  On this day in history death of jane Grey, queen of England for 9 days, beheaded at 17   

1571  On this day in history 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 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