February 12

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on February 12. From 1900 until now. February 12 is under the sign of Aquarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Silvia Saint (1976), Christina Ricci (1980) and Daphné Roulier (1968). Several movies were released around February 12 over the years, such as Pyaasa in 1957 directed by Guru Dutt and To Be or Not to Be in 1942 directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
But much more happened on February 12 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

United States - Lincoln's Birthday (traditionally).
Saint Alexis of Moscow
Saint Benedict of Aniane
Red Hand Day
Darwin Day.
National Freedom to Marry Day (unofficial).
Georgia Day in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Saint Damian of Alexandria
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Events

2019 Four Pakistani police officers are shot dead by a Jamaat-ul-Ahrar splinter group. Three additional officers are injured. (Reuters)
2018 Drone strikes in Pakistan: Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) confirms its deputy leader Khalid Mehsud has been killed in a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan, near the border with Afghanistan. (BBC)
2017 Yemeni Civil War (2015–present), Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen: A helicopter from the Saudi-led coalition bombs a vehicle outside Aden International Airport, wounding at least three Yemeni soldiers. (Reuters)
2016 Northern Mali conflict: An attack by suspected Islamist militants on a MINUSMA base in the town of Kidal, northern Mali, kills at least five United Nations peacekeepers and injures 30 others. (AFP via Al Arabiya) (Reuters)
2015 War in Donbass: The President of Russia Vladimir Putin announces the third peace agreement. (AP)(Euronews)
2014 Syrian Civil War:: The Syrian Army and their Lebanese ally Hezbollah begin an assault to retake the strategic border town Yabrud from the Syrian rebels. (AP via ABC) (Reuters)Russia says it will veto a U.N. resolution on humanitarian aid access in Syria, claiming that the draft is an effort to prepare for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. (Reuters)
2013 2013 North Korean nuclear test:: The South Korean officials report that an "artificial earthquake" has occurred in North Korea suggesting that a nuclear test has occurred. (The Australian) (CNN)North Korea confirms that it has successfully tested a nuclear device, claiming that it is small enough to be weaponized. (Reuters) (BBC) (AP via The Miami Herald)
2012 Syrian uprising:
2011 2010–2011 Algerian protests:
2010 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has repeatedly called on the DPRK to re-engage in the Six-Party Talks that also involve the Republic of Korea, Japan, China, Russia and the United States. (UN)
2009 Colgan Air's Continental Connection Flight 3407 Dash 8 Q400 turboprop commuter plane nosedives and slams into a home in western New York state, killing all 49 people aboard and one on the ground.
2008 In Los Angeles and New York, film and television writers vote to lift their 100-day-old strike against major studios and return to work. Writers Guild of America members voted 92.5 percent in favor of ending the strike, with a new three-year contract approved in principle.
2007 An armed gunman shoots and kills five people at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, before being killed by the police, bringing the evening's rampage death toll to six.
2006 Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi causes a political storm by comparing himself to Jesus Christ. (BBC)
2005 Protests against Faure Gnassingbé: In Lome, Togo, thousands protest the army-installed President Faure Gnassingbé. Clashes with soldiers and police forces cause the deaths of three demonstrators. (Guardian) (Yahoo France - AP)
2004 The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2003 The British government deploys troops around Heathrow airport after reports that al-Qaeda agents may have smuggled surface-to-air missiles into Britain.
2002 An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
2000 Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Tom Landry, Charles M. Schulz, and Oliver die, of unrelated causes.
1999 The US Senate votes on whether to remove President Bill Clinton from office. The president is acquitted on both articles of impeachment.
1998 Freak, opens at Cort Theater, New York City
1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement.
1995 PRI loses / PAN wins Mexican regional elections
1994 17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
1993 Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. Both are later charged. See Murder of James Bulger.
1992 The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
1991 North and South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition.
1990 Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
1989 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting Satanic Verses novel
1988 Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1987 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded US$7 million damages.
1985 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary.
1984 Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate Bolero at Olympics
1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1981 Cape Verde amends its constitution.
1980 Canterbury Tales opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 16 performances
1979 Kosmos 1076, first Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched.
1978 Jesus Christ Superstar closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 performances
1977 Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0.
1976 Sal Mineo, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at age 37.
1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
1973 Ohio becomes the first US state to post distances on signs in System International (Metric) units.
1970 Anthony Shaffers Sleuth, premieres in New York City
1968 Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.
1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for drugs
1966 Tay Vinh massacre: Vietnam War.
1965 KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1964 Beatles 1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall)
1963 Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron.
1962 Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia, USA.
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open.
1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers.
1959 The US Mint releases the 1959 Lincoln Memorial cent to circulation.
1957 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) has been developed.
1956 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open.
1955 WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 USSR breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.
1951 Muhammad Reza Shah marries Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari.
1950 US Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees.
1949 Annie Get Your Gun closes at Imperial Theater in New York City after 1147 performances.
1948 1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
1947 Daytime fireball and meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
1945 San Francisco, California, selected for site of United Nations Conference.
1944 Wendell Wilkie (Republican) enters US presidential race.
1943 General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa
1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher / Cohen
1938 Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden
1937 Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise
1935 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean.
1934 Export-Import Bank incorporates
1933 German vice-chancellor Franz von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis.
1932 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees.
1931 ''Radio Vaticana'' first broadcasts.
1929 Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30).
1928 Heavy hail kills 11 in England.
1927 British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai.
1926 Barendrecht soccer team forms
1925 E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo
1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech
1921 Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours).
1915 The cornerstone is laid for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
1914 In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1912 The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
1909 Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6).
1908 New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins in New York NY; George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel.
1905 In Christchurch, New Zealand, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is opened.
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