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Events on the 12th of February in history

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12 Feb 0881 Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Holy Roman Emperor
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12 Feb 1049 Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX
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12 Feb 1111 German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter, Rome
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12 Feb 1130 Pope Innocent II elected
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12 Feb 1429 English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orléans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
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12 Feb 1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
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12 Feb 1502 Granada Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism
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12 Feb 1528 Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor & ecclesiastical power
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12 Feb 1541 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
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12 Feb 1554 A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
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12 Feb 1577 Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict"
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12 Feb 1593 Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
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12 Feb 1624 English parliament comes together
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12 Feb 1689 The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
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12 Feb 1733 Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
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12 Feb 1733 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah
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12 Feb 1736 Maria Theresa Habsburg marries French Stefanus (Emperor Francois I)
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12 Feb 1762 English fleet occupies Martinique
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12 Feb 1763 John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs
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12 Feb 1771 Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
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12 Feb 1772 Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
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12 Feb 1793 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
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12 Feb 1797 Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" premieres in Vienna
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12 Feb 1814 Battle of La Victoria (1814)
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12 Feb 1814 Battle of Château-Thierry (1814)
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12 Feb 1816 The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
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12 Feb 1817 An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
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12 Feb 1818 Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
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12 Feb 1818 Chile gains independence from Spain
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12 Feb 1821 Mercantile Library of the City of New York opens
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12 Feb 1825 Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate west by September 1, 1826
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12 Feb 1825 The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
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12 Feb 1832 Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
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12 Feb 1832 Ecuador annexes Gal
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12 Feb 1839 Aroostock War: Boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick
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12 Feb 1839 Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick leads to Aroostook
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12 Feb 1840 Housatonic Railroad opens
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12 Feb 1848 Ballet "Faust" premieres, Milan
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12 Feb 1848 Ballet "Faust" premieres, Milan
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12 Feb 1850 Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300
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12 Feb 1851 Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.
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12 Feb 1855 Michigan State University is established.
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12 Feb 1861 State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, Arkansas
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12 Feb 1865 Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Representatives
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12 Feb 1870 Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada
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12 Feb 1873 Congress abolishes bimetallism and authorizes $1 and $3 gold coins
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12 Feb 1874 King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Island HI, is 1st king to visit US
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12 Feb 1876 Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop
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12 Feb 1877 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
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12 Feb 1877 US railroad builders strike against wage reduction
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12 Feb 1878 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)
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12 Feb 1879 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Square Garden, NYC)
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12 Feb 1879 News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London
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12 Feb 1880 National Croquet League organizes (Philadelphia)
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12 Feb 1882 Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam
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12 Feb 1885 Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society
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12 Feb 1886 2nd British government of Salisbury forms
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12 Feb 1889 Henrik Ibsens "Fruen fra Haven, " premieres in Oslo
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12 Feb 1889 C
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12 Feb 1894 Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, France, killing one and wounding 20.
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12 Feb 1899 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins, Madison Square Garden, New York City
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12 Feb 1899 -47
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12 Feb 1901 Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed
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12 Feb 1906 George Cohans musical "George Washington, " premieres in New York City
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12 Feb 1908 Anna Jeanes bequeathes $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
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12 Feb 1908 New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in New York NY; George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
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12 Feb 1909 New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
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12 Feb 1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
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12 Feb 1909 Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
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12 Feb 1909 Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6)
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12 Feb 1912 The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
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12 Feb 1912 China adopts the Gregorian calendar
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12 Feb 1912 Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Henry P'u-i, abdicates
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12 Feb 1914 In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
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12 Feb 1915 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC
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12 Feb 1916 1st edition of Joseph Patterson / Sidney Smith strip "Gumps"
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12 Feb 1920 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike
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12 Feb 1920 NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission
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12 Feb 1921 Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Soviet invasion of Georgia.
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12 Feb 1921 Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours)
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12 Feb 1921 Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies
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12 Feb 1924 George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music," in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
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12 Feb 1924 George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Carnegie Hall (New York NY)
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12 Feb 1924 George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback" premieres in New York NY
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12 Feb 1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech
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12 Feb 1925 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
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12 Feb 1925 E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo
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12 Feb 1925 Estonia forbids Communist Party
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12 Feb 1926 Barendrecht soccer team forms
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12 Feb 1927 British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai
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12 Feb 1929 Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30)
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12 Feb 1932 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
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12 Feb 1933 German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis
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12 Feb 1934 In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Española.
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12 Feb 1934 The Austrian Civil War begins.
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12 Feb 1934 Export-Import Bank incorporates
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12 Feb 1934 France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists
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12 Feb 1935 USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
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12 Feb 1935 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean
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12 Feb 1937 Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise
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12 Feb 1938 Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden
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12 Feb 1938 German troops entered Austria
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12 Feb 1941 Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
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12 Feb 1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen
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12 Feb 1942 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
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12 Feb 1943 General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa
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12 Feb 1944 Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race
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12 Feb 1945 San Francisco selected for site of the UN Conference
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12 Feb 1946 African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
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12 Feb 1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
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12 Feb 1947 Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
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12 Feb 1947 The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
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12 Feb 1947 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
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12 Feb 1947 Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands
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12 Feb 1948 1st Lieutenant Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
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12 Feb 1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances
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12 Feb 1949 Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio
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12 Feb 1949 Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey
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12 Feb 1949 Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem
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12 Feb 1950 Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees
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12 Feb 1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
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12 Feb 1953 USSR breaks relations with Israel
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12 Feb 1955 McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
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12 Feb 1955 President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam
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12 Feb 1955 Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan
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12 Feb 1955 WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
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12 Feb 1956 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open
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12 Feb 1957 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed
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12 Feb 1958 Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101
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12 Feb 1958 General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected President of Guatemala
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12 Feb 1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers
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12 Feb 1961 Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
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12 Feb 1961 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
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12 Feb 1961 Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Warriors 136-125
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12 Feb 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
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12 Feb 1961 Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 years 82 days
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12 Feb 1962 Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
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12 Feb 1963 Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
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12 Feb 1963 Argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron
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12 Feb 1964 Beatles 1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall)
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12 Feb 1964 End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test Cricket career
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12 Feb 1964 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
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12 Feb 1965 KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
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12 Feb 1965 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
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12 Feb 1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs
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12 Feb 1967 Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting
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12 Feb 1967 Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all round skater
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12 Feb 1968 Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
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12 Feb 1970 Anthony Shaffers "Sleuth, " premieres in New York City
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12 Feb 1970 Anthony Shaffers "Sleuth" premieres in New York NY
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12 Feb 1971 Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 & 0 Australia vs England
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12 Feb 1973 1st US POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines
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12 Feb 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
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12 Feb 1977 Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
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12 Feb 1978 "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 performances
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12 Feb 1978 Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
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12 Feb 1978 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
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12 Feb 1978 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
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12 Feb 1979 Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
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12 Feb 1980 "Canterbury Tales" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 16 performances
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12 Feb 1980 New York Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs Winnipeg Jets
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12 Feb 1980 Richard Hadlee becomes New Zealand's top wicket-taker with 117
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12 Feb 1981 Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building, 10m
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12 Feb 1981 Admiral Bobby R Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA
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12 Feb 1981 Arbitrator Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent
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12 Feb 1981 Cape Verde amends its constitution
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12 Feb 1982 Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, tying NHL record
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12 Feb 1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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12 Feb 1983 One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
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12 Feb 1984 Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at Olympics
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12 Feb 1984 Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH
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12 Feb 1984 Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at the Olympics receiving all perfect scores for quality & the gold medal
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12 Feb 1984 Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
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12 Feb 1984 West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup
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12 Feb 1985 37th NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary
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12 Feb 1986 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is vs Guyana
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12 Feb 1987 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 million damages
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12 Feb 1989 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
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12 Feb 1989 Barbara Harris becomes 1st female Bishop of a US Episcopal church
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12 Feb 1989 Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick & 10th 40+ goal season
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12 Feb 1989 Thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-San Francisco, 80 days 20 hours
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12 Feb 1989 39th NBA All-Star Game West beats East 143-134 at Houston
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12 Feb 1989 50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Larry Mowry
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12 Feb 1989 US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman
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12 Feb 1990 Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
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12 Feb 1991 North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition
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12 Feb 1991 Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence
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12 Feb 1992 The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
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12 Feb 1994 17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
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12 Feb 1994 Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
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12 Feb 1994 17th Olympics Winter games open in Lillehammer, Norway
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12 Feb 1994 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston
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12 Feb 1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo)
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12 Feb 1994 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m
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12 Feb 1994 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose
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12 Feb 1995 45th NBA All-Star Game West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix
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12 Feb 1995 Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50 meter butterfly
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12 Feb 1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500 meter (38.69 seconds)
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12 Feb 1995 Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7 minutes 37.51 seconds)
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12 Feb 1995 Jeff Rouse swims world record 50 meter backstroke (24.37 seconds)
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12 Feb 1995 Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (7 minutes 35.15 seconds)
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12 Feb 1995 PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections
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12 Feb 1995 Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13 meters)
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12 Feb 1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement
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12 Feb 1998 "Freak, " opens at Cort Theater, New York City
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12 Feb 1998 "Freak" opens at Cort Theater NYC
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12 Feb 1998 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt
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12 Feb 1998 Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach
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12 Feb 1998 Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740
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12 Feb 1998 US district judge T Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional
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12 Feb 1999 United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
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12 Feb 2001 NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
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12 Feb 2002 An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
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12 Feb 2002 The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
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12 Feb 2004 The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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12 Feb 2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
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12 Feb 2014 A massive winter storm across states in the southern United States causes widespread power outages, travel disruptions and dangerous road conditions.
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