About February 12
February 12, 2021 is the 43rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 322 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
What Happened On February 12
- 881 –Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor
- 1541 –Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
- 1554 –A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
- 1593 –Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
- 1689 –The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
- 1733 –Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
- 1825 –The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
- 1851 –Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush.
- 1894 –Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris’s Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
- 1914 –In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
- 1934 –In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Española.
- 1935 –USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
- 1946 –World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
- 1961 –U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
- 1990 –Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
- 1992 –The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
- 1994 –Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch’s iconic painting The Scream.
- 2002 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 2004 –The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
- 2009 –Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
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