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Birthday February 12, 1746 Thaddeus Kosciusko, Polish patriot |
Birthday February 12, 1775 Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams |
Birthday February 12, 1809 Abraham Lincoln ,(R), 16th U.S. president (1861-65) |
Birthday February 12, 1809 Charles Darwin, Evolutionist--Shrewsbury, England |
Birthday February 12, 1809 Abraham Lincoln is born |
Birthday February 12, 1828 Robert Ransom is born |
Birthday February 12, 1880 John L. Lewis, leader of United Mine Workers of America |
Birthday February 12, 1893 General of Army Omar Bradley, 'GI General' |
Birthday February 12, 1915 Lorne Greene is born |
Birthday February 12, 1915 Lorne Greene, Actor (Ben Cartwright on Bonanza) in Canada |
Birthday February 12, 1919 Forrest Tucker, Actor |
Birthday February 12, 1923 Franco Zefferelli, motion picture director |
Birthday February 12, 1926 Joe Garagiola, baseball player & announcer |
Birthday February 12, 1934 Bill Russell, basketball player & coach |
Birthday February 12, 1934 Basketball great Bill Russell born |
Birthday February 12, 1936 Joe Don Baker, Actor |
Birthday February 12, 1938 Judy Blume, author |
Birthday February 12, 1938 Judy Blume, popular young-adult author, is born |
Birthday February 12, 1945 Maud Adams, Actress in Sweden |
History February 12, 1541 Santiago - Chile founded |
History February 12, 1733 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe |
History February 12, 1789 Ethan Allen dies |
History February 12, 1793 Congress enacts first fugitive slave law |
History February 12, 1865 Garnet preaches to House on slavery and Civil War |
History February 12, 1908 Anna Jeanes bequests $1 -000 -000 to Swarthmore to become all girl |
History February 12, 1912 Last emperor of China abdicates |
History February 12, 1915 British planes raid Belgian coast |
History February 12, 1915 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington - DC |
History February 12, 1917 American schooner Lyman M. Law is sunk |
History February 12, 1924 Rhapsody In Blue, by George Gershwin, performed for first time |
History February 12, 1924 Rhapsody In Blue" premiers in Carnegie Hall |
History February 12, 1934 Export-Import Bank incorporated |
History February 12, 1941 Rommel in Africa |
History February 12, 1945 SF selected for site of UN Conference |
History February 12, 1947 A daytime fireball & meteorite fall is seen in eastern Siberia |
History February 12, 1955 Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam |
History February 12, 1961 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus |
History February 12, 1972 Cambodians launch attack to retake Angkor Wat |
History February 12, 1973 Release of U.S. POWs begins |
History February 12, 1976 Actor Sal Mineo is killed in Hollywood |
History February 12, 1980 2nd Islander scoreless tie - Jets at Nassau |
History February 12, 1986 Scharansky released |
History February 12, 1988 Russian ships bump U.S. destroyer and cruiser |
History February 12, 1999 President Clinton acquitted |
History February 12, 2002 Iranian jet slams into mountain |
History February 12, 2008 GM reports record loss, offers buyouts to 74,000 workers |
History February 12, 2008 Writers’ strike ends after 100 days |