February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 322 days remaining until the end of the year (323 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
NATIONAL PLUM PUDDING DAY
1502 – Muslims remaining in Granada are forced to convert to Catholicism.
1700 – The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between Denmark–Norway, Saxony and Russia and the Swedish Empire.
1793 – On this day, Congress passes the first fugitive slave law, requiring all states, including those that forbid slavery, to forcibly return slaves who have escaped from other states to their original owners.
1850 – The original manuscript of President George Washington's Farewell Address sells for $2,300 ($1,100,000 today).
1908 – NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel.
1914 – Dedication ceremony for the about to be constructed Lincoln Memorial is held in Washington, DC.
1973 – The first US POWs are released by North Vietnam; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine.
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TODAY'S BIRTHS
1606 – John Winthrop the Younger, English-American lawyer and politician, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1676)
1663 – Cotton Mather, English-American minister and author (d. 1728)
1775 – Louisa Adams, English-American wife of John Quincy Adams, 6th First Lady of the United States (d. 1852)
1791 – Peter Cooper, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Cooper Union (d. 1883)
1809 – Charles Darwin, English geologist and theorist (d. 1882)
1926 – Charles Van Doren, American academic, played the rigged TV game show "21"
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
NATIONAL PLUM PUDDING DAY
1502 – Muslims remaining in Granada are forced to convert to Catholicism.
1700 – The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between Denmark–Norway, Saxony and Russia and the Swedish Empire.
1793 – On this day, Congress passes the first fugitive slave law, requiring all states, including those that forbid slavery, to forcibly return slaves who have escaped from other states to their original owners.
1850 – The original manuscript of President George Washington's Farewell Address sells for $2,300 ($1,100,000 today).
1865 – The Rev. Dr. Henry Highland Garnet, the first African American to address the U.S. House of Representatives, delivers a sermon to a crowded House chamber. His sermon commemorated the victories of the Union army and the deliverance of the country from slavery.
1908 – Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore for it 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.
1912 – On February 12, 1912, Hsian-T'ung, the last emperor of China, is forced to abdicate following Sun Yat-sen's republican revolution.
1914 – Dedication ceremony for the about to be constructed Lincoln Memorial is held in Washington, DC.
1941 – On this day, German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, Libya, with the newly formed Afrika Korps, to reinforce the beleaguered Italians' position.
1973 – The first US POWs are released by North Vietnam; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine.
1999 – President Bill Clinton is acquitted of impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate.
2001 – The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002 – On this day in 2002, former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial at The Hague, Netherlands, on charges of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo.
2014 – Intel entrepreneur and co-founder of the X-PRIZE Foundation, Peter Diamandis, claims that 50% of U.S. jobs are under threat of being mechanized within 10 years.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1606 – John Winthrop the Younger, English-American lawyer and politician, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1676)
1663 – Cotton Mather, English-American minister and author (d. 1728)
1775 – Louisa Adams, English-American wife of John Quincy Adams, 6th First Lady of the United States (d. 1852)
1791 – Peter Cooper, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Cooper Union (d. 1883)
1809 – Charles Darwin, English geologist and theorist (d. 1882)
1926 – Charles Van Doren, American academic, played the rigged TV game show "21"
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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