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 - A year after after claiming the throne of England for nine days, 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 founded1733 - 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 Chacabuco1818 - Bernardo O'Higgins signs the Independence 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 director1925 - Sir Anthony Berry , British politician (d. 1984 )1926 - Paul Kurtz , philosopher, founder of numerous secular humanist groups1931 - Janwillem van de Wetering , author1932 - Julian Simon , economist, author (d. 1998 )1933 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer1934 - Bill Russell , basketball star1937 - Charles Dumas , American high jumper1938 - Judy Blume , author1939 - Ray Manzarek , keyboardist1942 - Ehud Barak , Prime Minister of Israel 1943 - Samuel Karokikki , athlete1950 - Michael Ironside , actor1953 - Joanna Kerns , American television actress (Growing Pains 1954 - Philip Zimmermann , cryptographer1955 - Arsenio Hall , actor, talk show host1955 - Petra Neeleman, chief executive officer DutchCare1967 - Chris McKinstry , computer scientist, Artificial Intelligence , Mindpixel 1969 - Hong Myung-Bo , South Korean football player1970 - Jim Creeggan, bass player for Barenaked Ladies 1976 - Sylvia Saint , Porn star 1980 - Christina Ricci , actress1980 - Juan Carlos Ferrero , tennis player 1981 - Tobias Roberson, Middle Eastern percussionist
Deaths 1538 - Albrecht Altdorfer , German painter1554 - 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 philosopher1916 - Richard Dedekind , mathematician (b. 1831 )1929 - Lily Langtry, singer, actress1951 - 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, actor1983 - 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 February 11 - February 13 - January 12 - March 12 -- listing of all days
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