Page 9: Historical Events In February - 12

1989  On February - 12 thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-San Francisco, 80 days 20 hours   

1989  US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman on February - 12.   

1989  Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at 83 on February - 12.   

1990  In Hagersville, Ontarioa tire dump fire set by teenage boys forces hundreds of families from their homes, causes massive air pollution on February - 12.   

1991  On February - 12 iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence   

1991  North &South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition on February - 12.   

1991  On this day in history edward A Blatt, director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88   

1992  Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1928), dies on February - 12.   

1993  A pair of 10-year-olds kidnap and beat to death a two-year-old child at a Liverpool, England shopping mall on February - 12.   

1993  On February - 12 james Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys   

1994  On February - 12 17th Olympics Winter games open in Lillehammer, Norway   

1994  20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston on February - 12.   

1994  Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo) on February - 12.   

1994  On this day in history edward Munch's painting "The Scream" is stolen from the Norwegian National Gallery. It is later returned and promptly stolen again.   

1994  On February - 12 model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose   

1994  On this day in history rev. Victoria Matthews consecrated the first female Bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada   

1994  Sue Rodriguez takes her own life at age 43 with the help of an anonymous doctor, after a long fight with Lou Gehrig's Disease on February - 12.   

1994  Donald Judd, US furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1995  On February - 12 pRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections   

1995  On this day in history susan Auch skates female world record 500 meter (38.94 seconds)   

1995  Earring George Mayweather, blues harmonica player, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1996  On February - 12 roger Omond, journalist, dies at 51   

1997  On this day in history fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement   

1998  On February - 12 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die &50 hurt   

1998  On this day in history intel unveils its first graphics chip i740   

1999  American Airlines pilots defy a federal court order and continue their sickout, causing the airline to cancel over a thousand flights on February - 12.   

1999  The U.S. Senate acquits President Bill Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice in his impeachment trial on this day in history.   

2000  Former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry dies at age 75 after battling leukemia for nine months on this day in history.   

2000  Peanuts creator Charles Schulz dies of colon cancer in his Santa Rosa, California, home at age 77 on February - 12.   

2005  Fire devastated the Windsor Building, a 32 story office block, in Madrid on February - 12.   

2007  On this day in history an armed gunman shoots and kills five people at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, before being killed by the police, bringing the evening's rampage death toll to six.   

2009  Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes near Buffalo in e ate of New York killing 50 people on February - 12.   

2010  The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada on this day in history.   

2012  On February - 12 gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected president of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote   

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1074  On this day in history 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 February - 12.   

1438  Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen was born on February - 12.   

1474  On February - 12 birth of lorenzo Campeggi(o), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat   

1567  On this day in history birth of thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician   

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  Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies on this day in history.   

1242  On February - 12 death of hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide   

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

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  Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65 on February - 12.   

1595  On this day in history 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