On This Day:
Sunday February 12, 2012
This is the 43rd day of the year, with 323 days remaining
in 2012.
Fact of the Day: history
It has been explained as if you had 1 through 1 million
squares, the earth's history with humans represents 1
square.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Julian the Hospitaller, St. Ethelwald of
Lindisfarne, St. Antony Kauleas, St. Marina or Pelagia, St.
Meletius, and St. Ludan.
Myanmar:
Union Day.
Events
1709
- Alexander
Selkirk, the Scottish seaman whose adventures inspired
the story of "Robinson
Crusoe," was taken off Juan
Fernandez Island after four years of being marooned.
1793
- Congress
passed the first fugitive slave law, requiring all states,
including those that forbad slavery, to forcibly return
slaves who had escaped from other states to their original
owners.
1818
- Chile
gained independence from Spain.
1892
- President Abraham
Lincoln's birthday was declared a national holiday.
1909
- The National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
was founded.
1912
- Hsüan-T'ung
(Pu
Yi), the last emperor of China,
was forced to abdicate following Sun
Yat-sen's republican revolution; he was six years old.
China
became a republic following the overthrow of the Manchu
Dynasty.
1924
- George
Gershwin's "Rhapsody
in Blue" premiered in New
York.
1973
- The first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam
War took place.
1999
- The U.S. Senate
voted to acquit President Bill
Clinton, after the five-week impeachment trial, on
both articles of impeachment, perjury and obstruction of
justice.
2004
- Mattel
announced the split of Barbie
and Ken.
2006
- The second Sydney
Body Art Ride breaks a world record for the largest
group of painted people, and raised more than $10,000 for
Children's Cancer Institute of Australia.
Births
1567
- Thomas
Campion, English composer and poet.
1809
- Abraham
Lincoln, 16th President of the United
States of America.
1809
- Charles
Darwin, British naturalist,
theorist of evolution.
1880
- John
L. Lewis, U.S. labor leader, United
Mine Workers of America.
1904
- Ted
Mack (William
McGuiness), American TV host.
1923
- Franco
Zeffirelli, Italian film director.
1934
- Bill
Russell, American basketball Hall of Famer.
1952
- Michael
McDonald, American musician, known for his trademark
husky baritone
voice.
1970
- Jim
Creeggan, Canadian
bassist.
1974
- Toranosuke
Takagi, Japanese
race
car driver.
Deaths
1789
- Ethan
Allen, an early American
revolutionary and guerrilla
leader during the era of the Vermont
Republic and the New
Hampshire Grants.
1971
- James
C. Penney, American department store founder.
2000
- Charles
M. Schulz, creator of the "Peanuts"
comic strip.
2000
- Tom
Landry, Hall of Fame football coach who led the Dallas
Cowboys to five Super Bowls.
2005
- Sammi
Smith (born Jewel Fay Smith), a country
music singer and songwriter, born in Orange
County, California.
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