February 12
Saturday 12, 2005:
Former Vermont governor and presidential candidate Howard Dean becomes chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Thursday 12, 2004:
Mattel Inc. announces the split of Barbara Millicent Roberts and Ken Carson after 43 years of dating.
Tuesday 12, 2002:
An Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran, killing 119
Monday 12, 2001:
Google obtains Usenet, creating Google Groups ([http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease48.html press release)
Friday 12, 1999:
President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
Thursday 12, 1998:
The presidential line-item veto is declared unconstitutional by United States federal judge.
Saturday 12, 1994:
1994 Winter Olympics open in Lillehammer, Norway.
Monday 12, 1973:
Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.
Monday 12, 1951:
Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari marries the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi at Golestan Palace in Teheran at age of 17.
Tuesday 12, 1946:
Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
Saturday 12, 1938:
Anschluss: German troops enter Austria.
Monday 12, 1934:
1934 - The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
Tuesday 12, 1924:
Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
Friday 12, 1915:
In Washington, DC, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
Monday 12, 1912:
China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
Friday 12, 1909:
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
Monday 12, 1894:
22-year-old Anarchist Emile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
Friday 12, 1892:
Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States.
Wednesday 12, 1879:
At New York City's Madison Square Garden the first artificial ice rink in North America opens.
Saturday 12, 1870:
Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory.
Sunday 12, 1832:
Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
Saturday 12, 1825:
The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west.
Thursday 12, 1818:
Bernardo O'Higgins signs the Independence of Chile near Concepción.
Wednesday 12, 1817:
Chilean patriotic army, after cross the Andes, defeat Spanish troops on the battle of Chacabuco
Tuesday 12, 1771:
Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden when his father Adolf Frederick "<nowiki></nowiki> himself to death".
Tuesday 12, 1737:
The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated.
Thursday 12, 1733:
Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13<sup>th</sup> and final American colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah.
Sunday 12, 1719:
The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded
Saturday 12, 1689:
The Convention Parliament convenes and declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
Friday 12, 1554:
A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
Wednesday 12, 1541:
Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
Tuesday 12, 1354:
Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
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