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On this day - February 12
1059 — Upon reaching Rome, Bruno of Toul is elected as pope Leo IX ...
1096 — Pope Urban II confirms the foundation of the abbey of La Roë ...
1404 — The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sofia performs the ...
1429 — English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy ...
1502 — Vasco da Gama sets sail with 15 ships and 800 men from Lisbon, ...
1502 — Isabella I issues an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of ...
1541 — Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1593 — Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon ...
1689 — The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France ...
1733 — Georgia Day: Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the ...
1771 — Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
1817 — An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, ...
1818 — Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean ...
1825 — The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the ...
1832 — Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
1889 — Antonín Dvořák's Jakobín is premiered at the National ...
1894 — Café Terminus bombing by Émile Henry during the Ère des ...
1909 — New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century ...
1909 — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ...
1912 — The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
1919 — The Second Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and ...
1921 — Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the ...
1935 — USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever ...
1945 — A devastating tornado outbreak in Mississippi and Alabama ...
1946 — African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is ...
1946 — World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of ...
1947 — Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris ...
1947 — The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an ...
1961 — The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
1963 — Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 crashes into the ...
1963 — Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
1965 — Malcolm X visits Smethwick near Birmingham following the ...
1966 — Rabbi Morris Adler is fatally shot by a disgruntled congregant ...
1968 — Vietnam War: The Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre occurs, ...
1974 — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in ...
1983 — One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military ...
1988 — Cold War: The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. ...
1990 — Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian ...
1992 — The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
1993 — Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping ...
1994 — Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and ...
1999 — United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the ...
2001 — NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the ...
2002 — An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains ...
2002 — The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the ...
2004 — The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to ...
2009 — Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence ...
2016 — Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical ...
2019 — The country known as the Republic of Macedonia renames itself ...
2026 — In the first general election since the July Revolution in ...