Page 7: Historical Events In February - 12

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

1945  On February - 12 san Francisco selected for site of UN Conference   

1945  On February - 12 sF selected for site of UN Conference   

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

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

1947  Daytime fireball &meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia on February - 12.   

1947  On this day in history record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands   

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

1947  On February - 12 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  On this day in history "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances   

1949  Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0 on February - 12.   

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

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

1950  Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb on this day in history.   

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 this day in history 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  On this day in history president Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam   

1955  Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan on February - 12.   

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

1957  On February - 12 researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed   

1957  On February - 12 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 February - 12 first spacecraft to the planet Venus launched   

1961  On February - 12 uSSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus   

1962  On February - 12 bus boycott starts in Macon GA   

1963  On this day in history argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron   

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1074  On February - 12 birth of conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101)   

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  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 February - 12 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  On this day in history toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies   

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 February - 12.   

1554  Death of Jane Grey, queen of England for 9 days, beheaded at 17 on February - 12.   

1571  On this day in history death of nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)   

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