February 12th
The February 12th is the 43e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian calendar .
Events
9th century
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881 : Rome: Charles III the Large, wire of Louis Germanic the, is the first Germanic Carolingian emperor.
11th century
14th century
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1311 : The emperor Henri VII deals with Milan with a revolt fomented by the Della Torre, which will extend to other cities lombardes, while the Visconti played a turbid part.
15th century
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1420 : Attack of Champtoceau, the counts of Penthièvre remove the duke of Brittany
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1429 : “Day of the Herrings”, of many defenders of the town of Orleans dies in a forwarding to seize a convoy of supply - Hareng S - intended for the English.
16th century
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1541 : Foundation of Santiago of Chile.
17th century
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1610 : The king of France Henri IV sign an alliance with the German Protestant Union.
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1613 : Russia: The Zemski Sobor (General states) charged to elect the future tsar meets.
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1635 : Foundation of the Company of the islands of America which replaces the Compagnie of Saint-Christophe.
18th century
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1772 : Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec sees the islands which bear its name.
19th century
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1835 : First with the Comédie-Française of Adhesive tape , drama in three acts and prose of Alfred de Vigny.
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1851 : Australia: Whereas Australia counts hardly 500.000 inhabitants, a gold digger, Edward Hargreaves , share to try its chance in America. He notices that the Californian grounds resemble curiously the alluvial grounds of the News-Wales. Of return to the country, it gains the site of Bathurst, where it finds, this day, of gold.
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1866 : American ultimatum with Napoleon III for the withdrawal of the French troops of the Mexico.
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1879 : Opening of the first artificial Skating rink of North America to the Madison Square Garden with New York.
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1892 : Leon Bouly (1862 - 1932) deposits a patent (No 219.350) for a “Cinématographe”.
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1894 : anarchistic Attack with the coffee Terminus asserted by Emile Henry.
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1899 : The Germany buys the the Northern Marianna Islands, Carolines and Palau with the Spain.
20th century
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1905 : The stage of the Parc of the Princes accommodates for the first time the team of France of football vis-a-vis the Suisse (1-0 for the France).
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1909 : with New York, the National Association for the Advancement off Colored People (NAACP) is created, on the initiative of Mary White Ovington.
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1912 : in China, the last emperor Puyi abdicates and Sun Yat-SEN proclaims the republic.
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1914 :
- Paris. Election of the philosopher Henri Bergson with the French Academy.
- Mary Phelps Jacob deposits the patent of the Soutien-gorge.
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1915 : Lucien Jean Baptiste Bersot is condemned to died for to make an example of military discipline .
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1924 :
- First with New York of the Rhapsody in Blue of Georges Gershwin.
- Calvin Coolidge is the first US president to make a political discourse with the radio.
- the Sarcophage of the Pharaon Toutankhamon is opened, fifteen months after its discovery, in Egypt, by the team of Howard Carter.
- Fine of the Rhenish separatism: Forty Rhenish separatists are massacred with Pirmasens, a small town close to the French border.
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1927 :
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1931 : Beginning of Radio Vatican inaugurated by the pope Black and white XI with which the first transmitter is equipped by Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the radio.
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1934 : General strike in France after the manifestations of the February 6th.
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1938 : Germany. Hitler gives to the Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg a Ultimatum in particular envisaging the nomination inside the Nazi Seyss-Inquart.
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1941 : A man is neat for the first time with Pénicilline.
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1943 : The Germans create the Service of obligatory work, the STO.
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1949 : A radio program causes panic with Quito. Quito, the capital of the Ecuador lives in panic. Hostile Martians invaded the city! In fact, it is about the resumption of a radio broadcast carried out by Orson Welles, more than ten years before according to the War of the worlds .
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1951 :
- the Shah of Iran wife the Soraya princess.
- Sugar Ray Robinson beats by K.O Jake LaMotta and becomes world champion of boxing, category of the Average Weights.
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1954 :
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1961 :
- the France lance its first rocket: Veronique It will reach 140 km of altitude.
- Launching by the Soviet of an interplanetary station in direction of Venus.
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1967 : The Soviet Union gives up imposing restrictions on the circulation of the planes combined in the air lanes leading to Berlin.
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1968 :
- Jean-Claude Killy gains the second of its three gold medals of the OJ of winter of Grenoble (descent, giant slalom and special slalom).
- a plane Vickers Viscount of Air Rhodesia crashe with Kariba and keep silent its 57 passengers and team members.
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1970 : A Raid of Israeli aviation on an Egyptian factory of metal recovery makes 70 dead among the civilians.
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1972 : Televised first of the emission the Large Chess-board of Jacques Chancel.
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1973 : The communist Vietnam releases the first American prisoners of war.
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1974 : The Soviet writer Alexandre Soljenitsyne, Nobel Prize of literature, is stopped in his apartment of Moscow.
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1979 : Proclamation of the Islamic Republic in Iran.
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1984 : Paul Hildgartner gains the gold medal of the OJ out of individual toboggan, twelve years after its title out of two-seater toboggan (with Plaikner).
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1986 :
- British the French Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and president François Mitterrand sign with Lille the document officializing the construction project of a Channel tunnel. The work, whose realization must last 7 years, will consist of a double drilled tunnel, where cars and trucks will be transported by railway shuttles.
- an American of quatre-vingt-six years, Andrija Artuković, is extradited towards the Yugoslavia for crimes committed during the war 1939-45.
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1987 : The arranges Tass reports that Doctor Jivago , has celebrated Romance of Boris Pasternak prohibited for 30 years in Soviet Union, will be published for the first time in the USSR the following year.
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1988 : Abou Nidal is condemned by Contumace following the made attack in December 1986 to the air terminal of Rome.
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1989 : Riots with Islamabad against satanic Verses of the writer Salman Rushdie.
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1990 : Launching of an international campaign for the rebuilding of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt.
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1993 :
- Immense shock in England: Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, two ten years old boys, remove in a shopping mall of Liverpool James Burger, little boy a two year old and beat it with death. They will be condemned to the life imprisonment.
- the Vandamme company it Pie Which Sings presents a " Carambar " of 212 kg, 4,05 m length, world records.
- Ouverture of the XVIIe Winter Olympics of 1994 with Lillehammer in Norway
- an explosion destroys oil tanks of smuggling to Port-au-Prince with Haiti.
- with Toronto, Victoria Matthews becomes bishop, first woman to be reached this row in the Église Anglican with the Canada.
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1995 : Iranian Agency IRNA brings back the death of a 140 year old Iranian, who leaves 121 descendants distributed out of 4 generations.
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1996 :
- a Pile-up due to the Fog and implying some three hundred vehicles makes eleven dead on the highway A4 Milan - Trieste, in the north of the Italy.
- in the West Bank, Yasser Arafat becomes president of the Palestinian Autorité.
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1997 :
- Lucy Winkett, 28 years, becomes the first woman priest named by the senior of the Cathédrale Saint-Paul of London, high place of the Église Anglican. She was judged the best candidate and was preferred with 15 other candidates, all the men; what did not fail to shock the members traditionalists of Saint-Paul.
- Hicham El Guerrouj carries the world records indoor of the mile to 3 mn 48 S 45.
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1998 : the the Vatican announces the release with Cuba of two hundred political prisoners.
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1999 : The American Senate innocent Bill Clinton in the business Lewinsky.
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2000 : Jenny Thompson carries the female world records of the 100 m butterfly to 56 S 80
21e century
- the probe NEAR launched by NASA five years rather is posed carefully on the rock surface of the asteroid Eros. She travelled on a distance of 3,2 billion kilometers.
- the government of the Quebec announces that $14 million will be invested to arrange the City of arts of the circus on the site of the old Miron career to Montreal.
- the teams of the Project of Human genome and of Will conceal publish the conclusions of the analysis of the sequencing of 95% of the human genome. They indicate that our Génome is not Homogène and especially that it contains few genes (between 30.000 and 40.000) compared to the preceding estimates.
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2002 :
- Chinese New year
- Opening of the lawsuit in front of the International penal court for ex-Yugoslavia (TPIY) of the former president of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević, shown war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- the Frenchwoman Carole Montillet gains the descent with the OJ of Salt Lake City.
- an Iranian airliner with a hundred and nineteen people on her board is crushed close to Khorramabad in the snow-covered mountains of the west of the country.
- the Comité Miss France (M {{me}} of Fontenay) supports financially the electoral campaign of Arlette Laguillier (Workers' struggle)!!!
- the French socialist former minister with the social Affairs Rene Teulade is challenged within the framework of an investigation into the mutual insurance company of retirement of the public office.
- Three or four morons of about fifteen years of the college Jean Mermoz throws a teargas bomb in the room of the professors of the establishment. A teaching enclosure, inconvenienced, is placed in observation.
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2003 :
- the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has recourse to article 49-3 with the Parliament on the reform of the ways of voting.
- Recognized guilty of the steering of an exchange office to the Spring-Haussmann which had made ten wounded in November 1998, Jean-Claude Bonnal , said “the Chinese”, is condemned to eighteen years of imprisonment by the Court of Assizes of Paris.
- the American Bode Miller gains the giant slalom of the championships of the world of disputed Alpine skiing with Saint-Moritz.
- La Paz (Bolivia): Brutal rise of the taxes riots: sixteen killed people.
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2004 : South Korean researchers announce to have succeeded in producing by cloning an human embryo and drawing some from the original cells, which could in the long term make it possible to obtain treatments to measure against diseases like the Diabète or the Parkinson's disease.
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2005 :
- Jacques Chirac gives the Legion of honor to Nicolas Sarkozy.
- First successful launch for ARIANE 5 ECA (flight 164) since the Guianese Space center with Kourou. Launching of satellites XTAR-EUR, Sloshsat and Maqsat-B2.
- Présentation of The Spoil , a work of Christo. They are a course 37 kilometers through Central Park with punctuated New York of 7.500 gantries.
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2007 : Beginning of the lawsuit of the catastrophe of Erika.
Births
- 1665 : Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist († 1721)
- 1704: Charles Pinot Duclos, writer and historian French. († March 26th 1772).
- 1712 : Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, general French († 1759)
- 1800: John Edward Gray, British zoologist († 1875)
- 1809
- Charles Darwin, British Biologist († April 19th 1882)
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States († April 15th 1865)
- 1813: James Dwight Dana, geologist, mineralogist and American zoologist († 1895)
- 1870: Horatio Scott Carslaw, British mathematician
- 1874: Auguste Perret, French architect († 1954)
- 1881: Anna Pavlova, Russian principal dancer
- 1884
- max Beckmann, painter German expressionnist.
- , French painter of Russian origin. († May 14th 1957)
- 1900: Fernand Board, working cutler, writer and libertarian militant French
- 1905: Federica Montseny, feminist and anarchistic Spanish
- 1908: Jacques Herbrand, French mathematician
- 1914: , German mathematician. († November 14th 1971)
- 1916: Michel of Saint-Pierre, French writer
- 1917: Joseph Wresinski, founder of DTA Fourth World († 1988)
- 1918: Julian Schwinger, American physicist, prize winner of the Nobel Prize of Physics in 1965, († July 16th 1994)
- 1921: , Irish mathematician. († April 20th 2006)
- 1923:
- Free Zeffirelli, realizer, scenario writer, producer and Italian actor.
- Charles Elwood Yeager, American aviator, first pilot to cross the Wall of the sound
- 1933: Costa-Gavras (Konstantinos Gavras, known as), French director of Greek origin.
- 1937 : Victor-Emmanuel of Savoy, titrated “prince de Naples”
- 1942:
- Ehud Barak, tenth Prime Minister of Israel
- Terry Bison, American writer of Science fiction
- 1945: Maud Adams, Swedish actress
- 1950: Steve Hackett, British guitarist of the group Genesis
- 1951: Rosy Bindi (born Sinalunga, province of His, Italy, are an Italian political woman.
- 1956 : Arsenio Hall, actor and American humorist
- 1958: Mel Wesson type-setter of film musics born with London.
- 1968 : Josh Brolin, American actor
- 1969: Darren Aronofsky, Realizer
- 1973: Kath Troubles, actress am%C3%A9ricane
- 1973: Tared Strong, actress Canadian
- 1976: Holy Sylvia, actress of charm
- 1980
- Christina Ricci, American actress
- Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player
Death
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1429 : Jean II of Rochechouart, Viscount of Rochechouart, lord of Tonnay-Charente, chamberlain of Charles VI, Seneshal of the Poitou, killed at the “day of Herrings”, battles lost in front of the English during the Siège of Orleans.
- 1479 : Éléonore Anger of Navarre, queen of Navarre (° February 2nd 1425)
- 1538: Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter
- 1554: Jeanne Grey, Queen of England during nine days (° October 1537)
- 1590: François Hotman, French lawyer (° August 23rd 1524)
- 1595: Archduke Ernest of Austria, governor of the Spanish Netherlands (° July 15th 1553)
- 1612: Christopher Clavius, German astronomer (° March 25th 1538)
- 1728: Agostino Steffani, type-setter and Italian diplomat (° July 25th 1653)
- 1763: Marivaux, playwright and novelist French (° February 4th 1688)
- 1770: Christopher Middleton, Exploring British
- 1771: Adolphe Frederic of Sweden, king de Suède (° May 14th 1710)
- 1798: Stanislas II, king of Poland (° January 17th 1732)
- 1799: Lazzaro Spallanzani, biologist Italy N (° January 10th 1729)
- 1804: Emmanuel Kant, German philosopher (° April 22nd 1724)
- 1894: Hans von Bülow, pianist, leader and German type-setter. (° January 8th 1830)
- 1916: Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (° October 6th 1831)
- 1929: Lillie Langtry, actress and British singer (° October 13rd 1853)
- 1933: Henri Duparc, French type-setter (° January 21st 1848)
- 1935: Auguste Escoffier, French, known as the “king” of the Cook S (° October 28th 1846)
- 1940: Vsevolod Emilievitch Meyerhold, Russian director of Theater (° January 28th 1874)
- 1949: Hassan El-Banna, islamist Egyptian, founder of the Muslim brothers (° October 14th 1906)
- 1951: Choudhary Rahmat Ali, Pakistani political personality (° 1895)
- 1954: Dziga Vertov, Russian realizer (° January 2nd 1896)
- 1958: Douglas Hartree, British physicist (° March 27th 1897)
- 1959: George Antheil, American Type-setter. (° July 8th 1900).
- 1976 : Sal Mineo, actor states-unien (° January 10th 1939)
- 1979: Jean Renoir, realizer of cinema, producer, scenario writer and actor French. (° September 15th 1894)
- 1981: Lev Atamanov, Russian cartoon film realizer “° February 21st 1905)
- 1984: Julio Cortázar, Argentinian writer (° August 26th 1914)
- 1985: Conrad Detrez, French writer of Belgian origin (° 1985)
- 1992: María Elena Moyano, activist Peruvian (° November 29th 1960)
- 1996: Bob Shaw, writer north-Irish of science fiction (° December 31st 1931)
- 2000: Screamin” Jay Hawkins, musician states-unien (° July 18th 1929)
- 2000: Charles Schulz, author of cartoon states-unien, father of Snoopy (° November 26th 1922)
- 2004: Pierre Kalck, Historian French (° December 19th 1924)
- 2005: Alfred Sirven, French protagonist of the Business Elf (° January 6th 1927)
- 2005: Rafael Vidal, swimmer Venezuelan (° January 6th 1964)
Celebrations
- the Americans celebrate Abraham Lincoln
- international Journée of the children soldiers (protocol)
Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day
- Antoine II Cauléas († 901), patriarch of Constantinople
- Holy Benoit d' Aniane (750 - 821), French, Benedictine
- Happy Christine, virgin
- Ethelwold de Lindisfarne († 740) bishop of Lindisfarne
- Holy Eulalie of Barcelona († 304), Virgin and martyrdom with Barcelona
- Felix IV († 530, pope (54e) of 526 with 530
- Hilarion d' Abitène († 304), and fifty other Christians, martyrs with Abitène (close to Carthage)
- Julien Hospital the, legendary character
- Mélèce d' Antioche († 382), bishop of Antioche of Syria
- Rioc de Camaret (7e S.), hermit in Brittany
- Marie Blessed Virgin, Notre-Dame icon of Iviron (Portaïtissa)
Catholic saints of the day
- Antoine of Saxony († 1369), brother franciscain
- Holy Humbeline or Hombeline († 1135), moniale cistercian
- Luca Belludi († 1288), minor brother
- Holy Ludan († 1202)
- Happy Nicolas Longobardi († 1709)
- Happy Thomas Hemerford († 1584)
Orthodoxe saints of the day
- Alexis of Moscow († 1378), métropolite.
- Christos the Gardener († 1748), néo-martyr with Constantinople.
- Luc of Jerusalem († 1277), martyr.
See too
- February 12th in sport
- February 12th in the railroads
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