Notable Historical Events on February 12th
February 12th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1049 |
Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX |
1111 |
German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter, Rome |
1130 |
Pope Innocent II elected |
1502 |
Muslims in Granada forced to convert to Catholicism |
1502 |
Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India. |
1528 |
Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor & ecclesiastical power |
1541 |
Santiago, Chile founded (or Feb 24) |
1577 |
Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict" |
1624 |
English parliament comes together |
1700 |
The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between Denmark—Norway, Saxony and Russia and the Swedish Empire. |
1719 |
The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded. |
1733 |
Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah |
1762 |
British fleet occupies Martinique |
1763 |
John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs |
1771 |
Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden. |
1772 |
Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India |
1793 |
1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves |
1797 |
Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," premieres in Vienna |
1818 |
Chile gains independence from Spain |
1821 |
Mercantile Library of City of NY opens |
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 |
1832 |
Ecuador annexes Galapagos Islands |
1839 |
Aroostock War: Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick |
1840 |
Housatonic Railroad opens |
1848 |
Ballet "Faust" premieres, Milan |
1850 |
Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300 |
1855 |
Michigan State University was established. |
1861 |
State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, AK (US Civil War) |
1865 |
Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Reps |
1870 |
Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada |
1873 |
Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins |
1874 |
King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Is Hawaii, is 1st king to visit US |
1876 |
Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop |
1877 |
1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem, Mass |
1877 |
US railroad builders strike against wage reduction |
1878 |
Frederick Thayer patents catcher's mask (pat # 200,358) |
1879 |
1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Sq Garden, NYC) |
1879 |
News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London |
1880 |
US National Croquet League organizes (Phila) |
1882 |
Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam |
1885 |
Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society |
1886 |
2nd British government of Salisbury forms |
1889 |
Caesar Francks Symphony in D, premieres |
1889 |
Henrik Ibsens "Fruen fra Haven," premieres in Oslo |
1894 |
Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20. |
1899 |
-47°F (-44°C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record) |
1899 |
1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins, Madison Square Garden, NYC |
1901 |
Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed |
1906 |
George Cohans musical "George Washington," premieres in NYC |
1908 |
Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female |
1908 |
NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel |
1909 |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms |
1909 |
Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop) |
1909 |
Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6) |
1912 |
China adopts Gregorian calendar |
1912 |
Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Hsuan T'ung, abdicates |
1914 |
Dedication ceremony for the about to be constructed Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC |
1916 |
1st edition of Joseph Patterson/Sidney Smith strip "Gumps" |
1920 |
-Apr 26] 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike |
1920 |
NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission |
1921 |
Soviet troops invade Georgia |
1921 |
Winston Churchill becomes British Minister of Colonies |
1924 |
George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Aeolian Hall, NYC |
1924 |
George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback," premieres in NYC |
1925 |
1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress |
1925 |
E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo |
1925 |
Estonia bans communist Party |
1926 |
Barendrecht soccer team forms |
1927 |
British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai |
1929 |
Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30) |
1931 |
Vatican Radio begins broadcasting with the callsign HVJ |
1932 |
Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees |
1933 |
German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis |
1934 |
Export-Import Bank incorporates |
1934 |
France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists |
1934 |
The Austrian Civil War begins. |
1935 |
Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean |
1937 |
Cleveland (now St Louis) Rams granted an NFL franchise |
1938 |
Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden |
1938 |
German troops entered Austria |
1941 |
Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen |
1941 |
Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome" |
1942 |
3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany |
1943 |
General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa |
1944 |
Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race |
1945 |
SF selected for site of UN Conference |
1946 |
World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats. |
1947 |
Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia |
1947 |
Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands |
1948 |
1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps |
1949 |
"Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 perfs |
1949 |
Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio |
1949 |
Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey |
1949 |
Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem |
1950 |
Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb |
1950 |
Sen Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees |
1953 |
USSR breaks relations with Israel |
1955 |
McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks |
1955 |
Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam |
1955 |
Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan |
1955 |
WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open |
1957 |
Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed |
1958 |
Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101 |
1958 |
Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala |
1960 |
Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers |
1961 |
Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Warriors 136-125 |
1961 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open |
1961 |
Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 yrs 82 days |
1961 |
USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus |
1962 |
Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia |
1963 |
Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron |
1964 |
Beatles 1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall) |
1964 |
End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test Cricket career |
1964 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
1964 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen |
1965 |
KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1965 |
Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
1967 |
Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater |
1967 |
Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs |
1967 |
Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting |
1970 |
Anthony Shaffers "Sleuth," premieres in NYC |
1971 |
Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 & 0 Aust v England |
1973 |
1st US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine |
1974 |
Heads of state of Algeria, Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia discuss oil strategy in view of the progress in Arab-Israeli disengagement |
1976 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1977 |
Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0 |
1978 |
"Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 perfs |
1978 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic |
1978 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
1978 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
1979 |
Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched |
1979 |
Bakhtiar resigns as prime minister of Iran after losing support of the military |
1980 |
"Canterbury Tales" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 16 performances |
1980 |
NY Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs Winnipeg Jets |
1980 |
Richard Hadlee becomes NZ's top wicket-taker with 117 |
1981 |
Admiral Bobby R Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA |
1981 |
Arbitrator Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent |
1981 |
Cape Verde amends its constitution |
1981 |
Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Bldg, 10m |
1982 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1982 |
Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, breaking NHL record |
1984 |
Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
1984 |
Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH |
1984 |
Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at Olympics |
1984 |
West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup receiving all perfect scores for quality & gold medal |
1985 |
37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary |
1985 |
West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup |
1986 |
1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is v Guyana |
1987 |
Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages |
1989 |
39th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 143-134 at Houston |
1989 |
5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel |
1989 |
50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Larry Mowry |
1989 |
Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a US Episcopal church |
1989 |
Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick & 10th 40+ goal season |
1989 |
Thursday's Child sets sailing record, NY-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h |
1989 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman |
1991 |
Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence |
1991 |
North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition |
1994 |
17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway |
1994 |
20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston |
1994 |
Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" stolen (in Oslo) |
1994 |
Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m |
1994 |
Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose |
1995 |
45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix |
1995 |
Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50m butterfly |
1995 |
Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec) |
1995 |
Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7:37.51) |
1995 |
Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec) |
1995 |
Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (7:35.15) |
1995 |
PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections |
1995 |
Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m) |
1995 |
Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec) |
1996 |
4th ESPY Awards: Cal Ripken, Rebecca Lobo win |
1997 |
Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement |
1998 |
"Freak," opens at Cort Theater NYC |
1998 |
250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt |
1998 |
Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach |
1998 |
Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740 |
1998 |
US district judge T Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional |
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. |
2001 |
9th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Marion Jones win |
2002 |
US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear waste repository. |
2002 |
An Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran, killing 119. |
2002 |
The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He eventually dies four years later before its conclusion. |
2004 |
The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom. |
2006 |
A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington DC up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City. |
2006 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 23-17 |
2007 |
A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5 people in the Trolley Square shooting. |
2007 |
Marty Schottenheimer is abruptly fired as head coach of the San Diego Chargers due to lack of playoff success and a strained relationship with ownership |
2009 |
Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes near Buffalo in the state of New York killing 50 people. |
2012 |
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected president of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote |
2012 |
Zambia defeat Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of Nations |
2012 |
54th Grammy Awards: Rolling In The Deep, Bon Iver wins |
2013 |
North Korea confirms it has successfully tested a nuclear device that could be weaponized |
2013 |
At a ceremony in Philadelphia, the NFL pays tribute to the life of the late Steve Sabol and his many contributions to the league |
2014 |
Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov win the Olympic gold in pairs figure skating |
2016 |
US and Russia Announce Plan for Humanitarian Aid and a Cease-Fire in Syria |
2016 |
Pope Francis to have historic meeting with head of Russian Orthodox Church |
2016 |
Pope Francis nominates 1000 'super confessors' |
2017 |
North Korea Launches Missile in First Test Since Trump Took Office |
2017 |
Trump says US behind Japan '100 percent' after North Korea missile launch |
2017 |
Canada man who beheaded bus passenger granted freedom |
2018 |
Olympics: Organisers confirm 177 total norovirus cases at Pyeongchang |
2018 |
Pierce joins Celtics legends as team retires his No. 34 |
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