Page 7: Historical Events In February - 12

1944  On February - 12 wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race   

1945  On this day in history 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  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  Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia on February - 12.   

1947  On this day in history sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72   

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 February - 12.   

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

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 February - 12.   

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

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

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

1950  On February - 12 senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees   

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

1955  On February - 12 president Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam   

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 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  Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers on February - 12.   

1960  Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1961  First spacecraft to the planet Venus launched on this day in history.   

1961  On this day in history uSSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus   

1962  Bus boycott starts in Macon GA on February - 12.   

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  Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256) was born on this day in history.   

1438  On February - 12 birth of adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen   

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

1567  Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician was born on February - 12.   

1584  Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring) was born on February - 12.   

1585  Caspar Bartholin, Malmö , physician, theologian, writer on anatomy was born on February - 12.   

1128  On February - 12 toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies   

1242  Death of Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide on February - 12.   

1538  Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57 on February - 12.   

1554  On February - 12 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  Death of Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553) on February - 12.   

1616  John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65 on February - 12.