WillDekkard
02-12-2010, 03:54 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- February 12th
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* 881 Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor
* 1429 English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stuart in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
* 1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
* 1541 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
* 1554 A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
* 1689 The Convention Parliament convenes and declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
* 1700 The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe.
* 1719 The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded.
* 1733 Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
* 1771 Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
* 1816 The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
* 1817 An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
* 1818 Bernardo O'Higgins formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepciσn, Chile.
* 1825 The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west.
* 1832 Ecuador annexes the Galαpagos Islands.
* 1855 Michigan State University is established.
* 1870 Women gain the right to vote in the Utah Territory.
* 1879 The first artificial ice rink in North America opens at Gilmore's Park in New York City.
* 1894 Anarchist Ιmile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
* 1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
* 1912 Xuantong Emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
* 1912 The Republic of China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
* 1914 In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
* 1924 Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
* 1934 The Austrian Civil War begins.
* 1934 The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
* 1934 In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista is inaugurated. The council decides to merge the movement with the Falange Espaρola.
* 1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
* 1961 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
* 1966 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, announced the Six Points in Karachi as the election manifesto of Awami League, that later led to formation of Bangladesh.
* 1973 Vietnam War: The first United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.
* 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
* 1990 Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes premier of Western Australia.
* 1997 Hwang Jang-yop, secretary in the Workers' Party of Korea and a prime architect of North Korea's Juche doctrine, defects at the South Korean embassy in Beijing along with his aide, Kim Dok-hong.
* 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.
* 2002 The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
* 2002 US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is a suitable site for a deep geological repository for the United States.
* 2002 An Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
* 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 D.C. to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumps a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.
* 2007 A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5 people wounding 4 others in the Trolley Square shooting.
* 2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house near Buffalo, New York killing 50 people.
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- February 12th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 881 Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor
* 1429 English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stuart in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
* 1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
* 1541 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
* 1554 A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
* 1689 The Convention Parliament convenes and declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
* 1700 The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe.
* 1719 The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded.
* 1733 Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
* 1771 Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
* 1816 The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
* 1817 An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
* 1818 Bernardo O'Higgins formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepciσn, Chile.
* 1825 The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west.
* 1832 Ecuador annexes the Galαpagos Islands.
* 1855 Michigan State University is established.
* 1870 Women gain the right to vote in the Utah Territory.
* 1879 The first artificial ice rink in North America opens at Gilmore's Park in New York City.
* 1894 Anarchist Ιmile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
* 1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
* 1912 Xuantong Emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
* 1912 The Republic of China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
* 1914 In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
* 1924 Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
* 1934 The Austrian Civil War begins.
* 1934 The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
* 1934 In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista is inaugurated. The council decides to merge the movement with the Falange Espaρola.
* 1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
* 1961 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
* 1966 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, announced the Six Points in Karachi as the election manifesto of Awami League, that later led to formation of Bangladesh.
* 1973 Vietnam War: The first United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.
* 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
* 1990 Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes premier of Western Australia.
* 1997 Hwang Jang-yop, secretary in the Workers' Party of Korea and a prime architect of North Korea's Juche doctrine, defects at the South Korean embassy in Beijing along with his aide, Kim Dok-hong.
* 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.
* 2002 The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
* 2002 US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is a suitable site for a deep geological repository for the United States.
* 2002 An Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
* 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 D.C. to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumps a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.
* 2007 A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5 people wounding 4 others in the Trolley Square shooting.
* 2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house near Buffalo, New York killing 50 people.
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