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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.
1692 - The Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland were killed by the army which had accepted their hospitality, for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1719 - The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest still existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded
1733 - Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13th and final American colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah.
1737 - The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated.
1817 - Chilean patriotic army, after cross the Andes, defeat Spanish troops on the battle of Chacabuco
1818 - Bernardo O'Higgins signs the Indepence of Chile near Concepcion, Chile
1825 - The Creek 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 - Anschluss: German troops enter Austria.
1951 - Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari marries the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi at Golestan Palace in Teheran at age of 17.
1973 - Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in SI units on signs.
1973 - Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.
1994 - 1994 Winter Olympics 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 Federal Republic 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.
2002 - An Iran Air Tours (subsidiary of Iran Air) Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran, killing 119
Births
1567 - Thomas Campion, composer, poet (d. 1620)
1637 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (d. 1680)
1768 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1835)
1775 - Louisa Adams, First Lady, wife of President John Quincy Adams (d. 1852)
1777 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, poet (d. 1843)
1809 - Charles Darwin, naturalist (d. 1882)
1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)
1861 - Lou Andreas-Salome, author (d. 1937)
1865 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, full name Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish poet and writer (d. 1940)
1880 - John L. Lewis, labor union leader (d. 1969)
1881 - Anna Pavlova, ballerina (d. 1931)
1884 - Max Beckmann, painter and graphic artist (d. 1950)
1884 - Marie Vassilieff, artist (d. 1957)
1893 - Omar Bradley, general (d. 1981)
1912 - R. F. Delderfield, author (d. 1972)
1914 - Tex Beneke, musician, band leader (d. 2000)
1915 - Lorne Greene, actor (d. 1987)
1919 - Forrest Tucker, actor (d. 1986)
1920 - William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian and professor of Church history emeritus at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (d. 2000)
1923 - Franco Zeffirelli, film director
1925 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (d. 1984)
1926 - Paul Kurtz, philosopher, founder of numerous secular humanist groups
1931 - Janwillem van de Wetering, author
1932 - Julian Simon, economist, author (d. 1998)
1933 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer
1934 - Bill Russell, basketball star
1937 - Charles Dumas, American high jumper
1938 - Judy Blume, author
1939 - Ray Manzarek, keyboardist
1942 - Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
1943 - Samuel Karokikki, athlete
1950 - Michael Ironside, actor
1953 - Joanna Kerns, American television actress (Growing Pains) and director
1954 - Philip Zimmermann, cryptographer
1955 - Arsenio Hall, actor, talk show host
1955 - Petra Neeleman, chief executive officer DutchCare
1967 - Chris McKinstry, computer scientist, Artificial Intelligence, Mindpixel
1969 - Hong Myung-Bo, South Korean football player
1970 - Jim Creeggan, bass player for Barenaked Ladies
1976 - Sylvia Saint, Porn star
1980 - Christina Ricci, actress
1980 - Juan Carlos Ferrero, tennis player
1981 - Tobias Roberson, Middle Eastern percussionist
Deaths
1538 - Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter
1554 - Lady Jane Grey, briefly Queen of England (beheaded) (b. 1537)
1595 - Archduke Ernest of Austria, governor of the Spanish Netherlands
1612 - Christopher Clavius, astronomer
1771 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (b. 1710)
1799 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, biologist (b. 1729)
1804 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher
1916 - Richard Dedekind, mathematician (b. 1831)
1929 - Lily Langtry, singer, actress
1951 - Choudhary Rahmat Ali, founding father of Pakistan (b. 1895)
1954 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896)
1971 - James C. Penney, department store founder (b. 1875)
1976 - Sal Mineo, actor (b. 1939)
1979 - Jean Renoir, director (b. 1894)
1982 - Victor Jory, actor
1983 - Eubie Blake, musician, songwriter (b. 1883 or 1887)
1984 - Julio Cortázar, author, intellectual (b. 1914)
1993 - James Bulger, abduction/murder victim (b. 1990)
1995 - Robert Bolt, writer (b. 1924)
1996 - Bob Shaw, science fiction author (b. 1931)
2000 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, musician (b. 1929)
2000 - Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
2000 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip (b. 1922)
2001 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (b. 1912)
Holidays and observances
United States - Lincoln's Birthday (traditionally)
1991, 2002, 2013 Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
Georgia Day in the U.S. state of Georgia
National Freedom to Marry Day (unofficial)
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