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
- 1502 –Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
- 1541 –Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
- 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).
- 1817 –An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
- 1832 –Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
- 1855 –Michigan State University is established.
- 1894 –Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris’s Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
- 1909 –The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
- 1934 –The Austrian Civil War begins.
- 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.
- 1956 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- 1968 –Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.
- 1994 –Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch’s iconic painting The Scream.
- 1999 –President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
- 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.
- 2002 –The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
- 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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