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Today in History ~ February 12
Events1502 - Granada Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism
1528 - Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor & church
1541 - Santiago, Chile founded
1733 - English colonists led by James Oglethorpe founded Savannah, Ga.
1793 - 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves [H]
1797 - Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," (Popularized years later as "Deutchland Uber Alles," by Nazis), 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
1839 - Aroostock War: Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick
1850 - Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300
1861 - State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, AK
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
1870 - Women in the Utah Territory gained the right to vote.
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 as Alexander Graham Bell's new invention was publicly demonstrated with a hookup between Boston and Salem, Mass.
1877 - US railroad builders strike against wage reduction
1879 - 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Sq Garden, NYC)
1892 - President Lincoln's birthday was declared a national holiday.
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded.
1912 - China adopts Gregorian calendar
1912 - Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Hsuan T'ung, abdicates
1915 - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Wash DC
1921 - Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours)
1921 - Winston Churchill becomes British minister of Colonies
1924 - George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Carnegie Hall
1924 - President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech
1938 - German troops enter Austria ("We have entered!")
1940 - The radio play "The Adventures of Superman" debuted on the Mutual network with Bud Collyer as the Man of Steel.
1942 - 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest, N Germany
1944 - Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race
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 performances
1950 - Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
1950 - Sentor Joe McCarthy claims to have yet another list of 205 communist government employees
1953 - The Soviet Union broke off relations with Israel after terrorists bombed the Soviet legation in Tel Aviv.
1955 - McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 for 10 weeks
1955 - President Eisenhower sends 1st US "advisors" to South Vietnam
1957 - Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) has been developed
1962 - Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
1963 - Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron
1973 - 1st US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines
1980 - The International Olympic Committee rejected a U.S. proposal to postpone or cancel the 1980 Summer Games or move the site from Moscow as a protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1987 - Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
1988 - Russian ships bump U.S. destroyer and cruiser [H]
1989 - 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
1990 - Donald Trump confirmed plans to divorce his wife, Ivana, touching off the battle over his fortune, estimated at $1.7 billion.
1991 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein met with Soviet envoy Yevgeny Primakov, who brought with him a message from President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1991 - In China, two longtime democracy activists (Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming) were sentenced to 13 years in prison. (Both were later freed.)
1992 - A state of emergency was declared after the third winter storm to hit Southern California triggered mudslides and flooding. At least four people were killed.
1992 - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton released a letter he'd written as a student in 1969 in which he said he had decided to give up a draft deferment in order to "maintain my political viability."
1992 - President Bush formally announced his bid for re-election.
1993 - In a crime that shocked Britons, two ten-year-old boys lured two-year-old James Bulger from his mother at a shopping mall in Liverpool, England, then beat him to death. (Eight years later, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were seeking parole.)
1993 - About 5,000 demonstrators march on Atlanta's State Capitol to protest the Confederate symbol on the Georgia state flag.
1994 - As the 17th Olympic Winter Games opened in Norway, the U.S. Olympic Committee agreed to allow Tonya Harding to compete in the women's figure skating competition, despite claims she was involved in the assault on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan the month before.
1997 - The highest-ranking official to flee communist North Korea, Hwang Jang Yop, asked for political asylum at South Korea's consulate in Beijing.
1997 - The Clinton administration gave permission to 10 U.S. news organizations to open bureaus in Cuba.
1997 - The Democrats' fund-raising scandal continued to grow. The Washington Post reported the Chinese government might have channeled money to the Democratic National Committee in order to influence the Clinton administration.
1998 - Italy, 250-car pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt
1998 - Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740
1998 - US district judge T Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional
1999 - The five-week impeachment trial of Bill Clinton comes to an end, the Senate voted to acquit President Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice. [H]
2000 - Michelle Kwan won her third straight US Figure Skating Championships crown, while Michael Weiss successfully defended the men's title.
2001 - The NEAR spacecraft touched down on Eros, completing the first landing on an asteroid.
2001 - Scientists published their first examinations of nearly all the human genetic code.
2001 - A computer virus pretending to be a digital photo of tennis star Anna Kournikova overwhelmed e-mail servers in Europe and North America.
2002 - The war crimes trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic began at the Hague in the Netherlands.
Birthdays Today
1588 - John Winthrop, English attorney/puritan/1st gov of Mass
1663 - Cotton Mather, clergyman and witchcraft authority
1665 - Rudolph J Camerarius, German botanist/physician (sexuality plant)
1768 - Francis II, Florence Italy, last Holy Roman emperor (1792-1806)
1775 - Louisa Adams (Johnson) (wife of 6th U.S. President John Quincy Adams)
1791 - Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union)
1809 - Abraham Lincoln (16th U.S. President: Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, 1st U.S. President to be assassinated) born in present-day Larue County, Ky.
1809 - Charles Darwin (naturalist: theory of evolution: On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection)
1880 - John L. Lewis (U.S. labor leader: United Mine Workers of America)
1893 - Omar Bradley, General of Army WW II (GI General)
1898 - [Le]Roy Harris, Okla, composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
1904 - Ted Mack (William Maguiness) (TV host: The Original Amateur Hour, The Ted Mack Family Hour)
1914 - Tex (Gordon) Beneke (bandleader, singer, tenor sax: Glenn Miller Orchestra: Chattanooga Choo Choo, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree)
1915 - Andrew J Goodpaster, US, general/supreme commander (NATO-Europe)
1915 - Lorne Greene (newscaster: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation [CBC]; actor: Bonanza, The Silver Chalice, Earthquake, Battlestar Galactica; pseudo-singer: Ringo)
1918 - Dominic DiMaggio, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1919 - Forrest Tucker (actor: Sands of Iwo Jima, The Yearling, Thunder Run, F Troop)
1923 - Franco Zeffirelli (Corsi) (director: The Champ, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Endless Love, Jesus of Nazareth)
1923 - Mel Powell (pianist, composer: Mission to Moscow for Benny Goodman; music educator: Dean of Music at California Institute of Arts)
1926 - Joe Garagiola (baseball: St. Louis Cardinals; broadcaster: St. Louis Cardinals, NBC's Game of the Week, Today, Chrysler Corporation; author: Baseball is a Funny Game - It's Anybody's Ballgame)
1934 - Bill Russell (William Felton) (Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics: NBA MVP [1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965])
1935 - Gene McDaniels (singer: A Hundred Pounds of Clay, Tower of Strength, Chip Chip)
1935 - Ken Still (golfer)
1936 - Joe Don Baker (actor: Cool Hand Luke, The Natural, Fletch, Citizen Cohn, Guns of the Magnificent Seven, Ring of Steel)
1938 - Johnny Rutherford (auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner: 1974, '76, '80)
1942 - Pat Dobson (baseball)
1944 - Charles Pasarell (tennis)
1949 - Len Randle (baseball)
Famous deaths
1242 - Henry VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide
1554 - Lord Guildford Dudley, Jane Grey's husband, beheaded
1942 - Painter Grant Wood, creator of "American Gothic," died in Iowa City, Iowa, a day before his 50st birthday.
1960 - Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown), dies at 71
1971 - James Cash Penney, US founder (J C Penney), dies at 95
1991 - Former New York City Mayor Robert Wagner died at age 80.
2000 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip, died in Santa Rosa, California, at age 77.
2000 - Hall-of-Fame football coach Tom Landry, who led the Dallas Cowboys to five Super Bowls, died in Irving, Texas, at age 75.
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