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12 Feb 1049
Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX
12 Feb 1111
German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter Rome
12 Feb 1502
Muslims in Granada forced to convert to Catholicism
12 Feb 1528
Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor & ecclesiastical power
12 Feb 1554
Queen of England for nine days Lady Jane Grey is executed for treason
12 Feb 1577
Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs Eternal Edict
12 Feb 1700
The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between DenmarkNorway Saxony and Russia and the Swedish Empire.
12 Feb 1719
The Onderlinge van u.a. the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded
12 Feb 1733
Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe at site of Savannah
12 Feb 1763
John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs
12 Feb 1772
Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago India
12 Feb 1793
1st US fugitive slave law passed requires return of escaped slaves
12 Feb 1797
Haydns song Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser premieres in Vienna
12 Feb 1825
Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government & migrate west by Sept 1 1826
12 Feb 1839
Aroostoock (or Pork & Beans) War Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick
12 Feb 1850
Original Washingtons Farewell Address manuscript sells for 2300
12 Feb 1861
State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon Arkansas during the US Civil War
12 Feb 1865
Henry Highland Garnet becomes the 1st African American minister to preach to the US House of Representatives he talks about the end of slavery
12 Feb 1870
Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada
12 Feb 1873
US Congress passes the Coinage Act of abolishing bimetallism and placing the country on the gold standard
12 Feb 1877
1st news dispatch by telephone between Boston & Salem Massachusetts
12 Feb 1877
US railroad builders strike against wage reduction
12 Feb 1878
Frederick Thayer patents catchers mask (pat 200358)
12 Feb 1879
1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Square Garden NYC)
12 Feb 1879
News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London
12 Feb 1880
US National Croquet League organizes (Philadelphia)
12 Feb 1889
Henrik Ibsens Fruen fra Haven premieres in Oslo
12 Feb 1894
Anarchist mile Henry hurls a bomb into Pariss Cafe Terminus killing one and wounding 20.
12 Feb 1899
-47F (-44C) Camp Clarke Nebraska (state record)
12 Feb 1899
1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins Madison Square Garden NYC
12 Feb 1906
George Cohans musical George Washington premieres in NYC
12 Feb 1908
Anna Jeanes bequeaths 1000000 to Swarthmore to become all female
12 Feb 1908
NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
12 Feb 1909
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms
12 Feb 1909
Netherlands SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
12 Feb 1909
Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (24652.6)
12 Feb 1912
The last Qing Emperor of China Puyi abdicates after losing the support of the Chinese people and thus the mandate of heaven
12 Feb 1914
Dedication ceremony for the about to be constructed Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
12 Feb 1917
1st edition of Joseph Patterson and Sidney Smiths strip The Gumps
12 Feb 1920
-Apr 26] 14000 RotterdamAmsterdam harbor workers strike
12 Feb 1920
NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission
12 Feb 1924
George Gershwins Rhapsody In Blue premieres at influential concert Experiment in Modern Music held by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra at the Aeolian Hall NYC
12 Feb 1924
George Kaufmans Beggar on Horseback premieres in NYC
12 Feb 1925
1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
12 Feb 1925
E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo
12 Feb 1929
Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (1130)
12 Feb 1931
Vatican Radio begins broadcasting with the callsign HVJ
12 Feb 1932
Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
12 Feb 1932
Sonja Henie of Norway wins her 2nd of 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals in womens figure skating at the Lake Placid Winter Games beats Austrias Fritzi Burger into 2nd place for 2nd straight Games
12 Feb 1932
World champion French husband and wife team Pierrre and Andre Brunet win their 2nd consecutive Olympic pairs figure skating gold medal at the Lake Placid Games
12 Feb 1932
Karl Schfer of Austria wins the first of 2 consecutive mens figure skating Olympic gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Games in the United States
12 Feb 1933
German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis
12 Feb 1934
France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists
12 Feb 1934
The four-day February Uprising sometimes called the Austrian Civil War begins.
12 Feb 1935
Great airship USS Macon crashes into Pacific Ocean
12 Feb 1937
Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise
12 Feb 1938
Austrian chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg visits Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden
12 Feb 1938
The first Kindertransport carrying Jewish refugee children from Nazi Germany arrives in Britain
12 Feb 1938
3rd British Empire Games close in Sydney Australia
12 Feb 1941
Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms under Ascher and Cohen
12 Feb 1942
German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen escape from Brest to Germany in a dash up the English Channel
12 Feb 1947
Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
12 Feb 1947
Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught C W Stewart Galapagos Islands
12 Feb 1948
1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st African American in army nursing corps
12 Feb 1949
Annie Get Your Gun closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances
12 Feb 1950
Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees
12 Feb 1954
The UK government establishes an organisation to control atomic energy in the country under The Atomic Energy Authority Bill
12 Feb 1955
McGuire Sisters Sincerely single goes 1 & stays 1 for 10 weeks
12 Feb 1955
President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam
12 Feb 1955
Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur Kazakhstan
12 Feb 1955
WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
12 Feb 1957
Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed
12 Feb 1958
Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected President of Guatemala
12 Feb 1959
The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the sheaves of wheat design
12 Feb 1961
Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Warriors 136-125
12 Feb 1961
Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 yrs 82 days
12 Feb 1963
Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron
12 Feb 1964
Fighting breaks out between Turks and Greeks over dispute islands in Cyprus and 16 are killed the UN responds the following month by sending a peacekeeping force
12 Feb 1965
KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
12 Feb 1967
Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater
12 Feb 1967
Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting
12 Feb 1968
Frenchman Jean Claude-Killy follows his win in the downhill with victory in the giant slalom at the Grenoble Winter Olympics clean sweeps 3 alpine skiing events with success in the slalom
12 Feb 1968
Dutch speed skater Ans Schut wins the womens 3000m event at the Grenoble Winter Olympics first 10 finishers beat previous Olympic record set in Squaw Valley (1960)
12 Feb 1971
Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood who scored 5 & 0 Aust v England
12 Feb 1973
1st US POWs in N Vietnam released 116 of 456 flown to Philippines
12 Feb 1974
Heads of state of Algeria Egypt Syria and Saudi Arabia discuss oil strategy in view of the progress in Arab-Israeli disengagement
12 Feb 1977
Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
12 Feb 1977
Festac 77 the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture finishes in Lagos Nigeria
12 Feb 1978
Jesus Christ Superstar closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 performances
12 Feb 1978
Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
12 Feb 1979
Kosmos 1076 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite launched
12 Feb 1979
Bakhtiar resigns as prime minister of Iran after losing support of the military
12 Feb 1980
Canterbury Tales opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 16 performances
12 Feb 1980
NY Islanders 2nd scoreless tie vs Winnipeg Jets
12 Feb 1981
Admiral Bobby R Inman USN becomes deputy director of CIA
12 Feb 1981
Arbitrator Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent
12 Feb 1981
Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building 10m
12 Feb 1982
32nd Berlin International Film Festival Veronika Voss wins the Golden Bear
12 Feb 1984
Cale Yarborough becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier above 200 MPH
12 Feb 1984
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate Bolero at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo
12 Feb 1984
West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win crickets World Series Cup after going undefeated in the qualifying rounds
12 Feb 1984
Finnish cross-country skier Marja-Liisa Hmlinen wins the 5k gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics 2nd of 3 individual medal sweep also winning 10k and 20k events
12 Feb 1985
West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win crickets World Series Cup (Australian Tri-Series)
12 Feb 1986
1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose Leeward Is v Guyana
12 Feb 1987
Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded 7 M damages
12 Feb 1988
38th Berlin International Film Festival Red Sorgum wins the Golden Bear
12 Feb 1989
39th NBA All-Star Game Astrodome Houston TX West beats East 143-134 MVP Karl Malone Utah Jazz F
12 Feb 1989
5 Pakistani Muslim rioters killed protesting Satanic Verses novel
12 Feb 1989
50th PGA Seniors Championship PGA National GC Larry Mowry wins only career major title beats Miller Barber & Al Geiberger by 1 stroke
12 Feb 1989
Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a US Episcopal church
12 Feb 1989
Gretzky sets 2 records his 45th hat trick & 10th 40 goal season
12 Feb 1989
Thursdays Child sets sailing record NY-Cape Horn-SF 80 d 20 h
12 Feb 1989
Loyalist paramilitary group kill Pat Finucane a Belfast lawyer who represented republican hunger striker Bobby Sands while he is having dinner with family
12 Feb 1991
North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition
12 Feb 1994
XVII Winter Olympic Games opens in Lillehammer Norway
12 Feb 1994
20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston
12 Feb 1994
Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose
12 Feb 1995
45th NBA All-Star Game America West Arena Phoenix AZ West beats East 139-112 MVP Mitch Richmond Sacramento Kings SG
12 Feb 1995
Angela Kennedy swims womans world record 50m butterfly
12 Feb 1995
Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (737.51)
12 Feb 1995
Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec)
12 Feb 1995
Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (735.15)
12 Feb 1995
PRI loses and PAN wins Mexican regional elections
12 Feb 1995
Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m)
12 Feb 1995
Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec)
12 Feb 1998
250-car Italy pile-up due to fog 4 die & 50 hurt
12 Feb 1998
Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach
12 Feb 1998
US district judge T Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional
12 Feb 1999
Scientists warn about harmful impacts on health of genetically modified (GM) food
12 Feb 2000
31st NAACP Image Awards The Best Man wins Outstanding Motion Picture
12 Feb 1111
King Henry V King of Germany and Italy arrives in Rome for his coronation as Holy Roman Emperor but Pope Paschal II refuses to crown him until April owing to the Investiture Controversy
12 Feb 1870
Utah becomes the second territory in the United States to pass a law allowing women the vote after Wyoming in 1869
12 Feb 1889
Henrik Ibsens Fruen fra havet (The Lady from the Sea) premieres in Oslo
12 Feb 1909
American James Clark runs world record marathon (24652.6) in NYC
12 Feb 1915
World War I Kaiser Wilhelm approves the strategic bombing of Londons docks
12 Feb 1961
Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad scores his 1st test cricket century for Pakistan at 17 years of age
12 Feb 1973
1st US POWs in North Vietnam released 116 of 456 flown to Philippines
12 Feb 1984
12 years after winning the doubles in Sapporo (1972) Italian Paul Hildgarten wins the mens luge singles at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics
12 Feb 1984
East German luger Steffi Martin wins the first of 2 consecutive womens singles gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics also wins in Calgary (1988)
12 Feb 1989
50th Senior PGA Championship Mens Golf PGA National GC Larry Mowry wins only career major title beats Miller Barber & Al Geiberger by 1 stroke
12 Feb 1797
Joseph Haydns song Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser (God Save Emperor Francis) premieres in Vienna
12 Feb 1840
Housatonic Railroad opens running from Bridgeport Connecticut north to the Massachusetts state line
12 Feb 1878
Harvard player Frederick Thayer patents baseball catchers mask (pat 200358)
12 Feb 1879
News about British loss at Battle of Isandlwana to Zulu attack (Anglo-Zulu War) reaches London
12 Feb 1886
2nd British Conservative government of Marquess of Salisbury forms in alliance with Liberal Unionist Party
12 Feb 1932
49 year old Australian cricket spin bowler Bert Ironmonger captures 5-6 as South Africa dismissed for 36 in 5th Test in Melbourne Australia wins by an innings & 72 runs series 5-0
12 Feb 1944
Wendell Wilkie enters the race to be the Republican nominee for US President
12 Feb 1955
McGuire Sisters Sincerely single goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 10 weeks
12 Feb 1964
Beatles 1st NYC concerts two shows at Carnegie Hall
12 Feb 1989
50th PGA Seniors Championship Mens Golf PGA National GC Larry Mowry wins only career major title beats Miller Barber & Al Geiberger by 1 stroke
12 Feb 1989
Wayne Gretzky sets 2 records his 45th hat trick & 10th 40 goal season
12 Feb 1429
Battle of the Herrings fought during Hundred Years War when French and Scottish troops unsuccessfully attack English convoy (carrying barrels of herrings) near Rouvray
12 Feb 1851
Edward Hargraves and three other men discover gold at Ophir New South Wales beginning Australias first gold rush [1]
12 Feb 1912
The last Qing Emperor of China Puyi (age 6) abdicates after losing the support of the Chinese people and thus the mandate of heaven
12 Feb 1925
Estonia passes Law on Cultural Self-Government for National Minorities allowing a unique degree of autonomy to ethnic and religious groups of 3000 or more
12 Feb 1941
First injection of penicillin into a patient by British physician Charles Fletcher at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford England
12 Feb 1968
Frenchman Jean Claude-Killy follows his win in the downhill with victory in giant slalom at Grenoble Winter Olympics clean sweeps 3 alpine skiing events with success in the slalom
12 Feb 1968
Dutch speed skater Ans Schut wins womens 3000m event at Grenoble Winter Olympics first 10 finishers beat previous Olympic record set in Squaw Valley (1960)
12 Feb 1925
E. Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo
12 Feb 1947
Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught by C. W. Stewart near the Galapagos Islands
12 Feb 1961
Boston Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Philadelphia Warriors 136-125
12 Feb 1528
Treaty of Dordrecht establishes alliance between Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and King Henry VII of England
12 Feb 1733
Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe at site of Savannah
12 Feb 1772
Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trmarec of France discovers the uninhabited Kerguelen Archipelago in the sub-Antarctic ocean
12 Feb 1879
1st artificial ice rink in North America at Madison Square Garden NYC
12 Feb 1880
US National Croquet League organizes in Philadelphia
12 Feb 1932
49-year-old Australian cricket spin bowler Bert Ironmonger captures 5-6 as South Africa dismissed for 36 in 5th Test in Melbourne Australia wins by an innings & 72 runs series 5-0
12 Feb 1934
Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss government bans Social Democrat party
12 Feb 1935
Great airship USS Macon lost in a storm off Point Sur California with the loss of two lives with 64 people saved
12 Feb 1955
Soviets decides space center to be built in Baikonur Kazakhstan
12 Feb 1958
General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected President of Guatemala
12 Feb 1967
Dutch speed skater Kees Verkerk becomes All-Around World Champion
12 Feb 1984
William Grant Stills Symphony No. 3 (The Sunday Symphony) composed in 1958 receives premiere performance by the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlton Woodsi
12 Feb 1989
Senior PGA Championship PGA National GC Larry Mowry wins only career major title beats Miller Barber & Al Geiberger by 1 stroke
12 Feb 1049
Bruno Count of Egisheim-Dagsburg is crowned Pope Leo IX
12 Feb 1577
Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs the Eternal Edict
12 Feb 1700
Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between DenmarkNorway Saxony Russia and the Swedish Empire
12 Feb 1793
First US Fugitive Slave Law passes requiring the return of escaped slaves
12 Feb 1848
Choreographer Jules Perrots ballet Faust to music by Giacomo Panizza and Michael Andrew Costa premieres at La Scala Teatro in Milan Kingdom of Lombardy
12 Feb 1865
Henry Highland Garnet becomes the first African American minister to preach to the US House of Representatives he talks about the end of slavery
12 Feb 1912
The last Qing Emperor of China Puyi (age 6) abdicates after losing the support of the Chinese people and thus the mandate of heaven
12 Feb 1920
NL votes 6-2 for a single baseball commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission
12 Feb 1945
Tornado strikes Montgomery Alabama with estimated Fujita scale of F3 intensity kills 26 destroys about 100 houses two warehouses and a freight train
12 Feb 1945
Tornado strikes near York and Livingston Alabama with estimated Fujita scale of F4 intensity kills 11 people
12 Feb 1964
The Beatles first NYC concerts two shows at Carnegie Hall
12 Feb 1981
Arbitrator Goetz declares Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent
12 Feb 1981
Pete Squires of Yonkers New York sets record for running 1575 steps up to 86th floor of Empire State Building in 10 minutes 59 seconds
12 Feb 1989
Five Pakistani Muslim rioters are killed while protesting Salman Rushdies novel The Satanic Verses
12 Feb 1991
North and South Korea form a joint team for a table tennis competition
12 Feb 1994
20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn sonatas takes place in Boston
12 Feb 1998
US District Judge Thomas F. Hogan declares the line-item veto law unconstitutional
12 Feb 2001
Aint Nothing bout You single released by Brooks & Dunn
12 Feb 2001
NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lands in the saddle region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid
12 Feb 2002
An Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad Iran killing 119
12 Feb 2002
US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States nuclear waste repository
12 Feb 2006
A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington D.C. up to Boston Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.
12 Feb 2007
A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City killing five people in the Trolley Square shooting
12 Feb 2009
Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes near Buffalo New York killing 50 people
12 Feb 2010
XXI Winter Olympic Games open in Vancouver Canada
12 Feb 2012
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected President of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote
12 Feb 2012
Zambia defeat Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of Nations
12 Feb 1795
First US state university opens the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill
12 Feb 1825
Creek Indian treaty is signed as tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate west by September 1 1826
12 Feb 1877
First news dispatch by telephone between Boston and Salem Massachusetts
12 Feb 1879
First artificial ice rink in North America at Madison Square Garden NYC
12 Feb 1947
Daytime fireball and meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
12 Feb 1979
Kosmos 1076 the first Soviet oceanographic satellite launches