The February 12th is the 43e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian calendar .
Events
9th century
11th century
14th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
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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.
20th century
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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 :
- Shanghai. Arrival of the task force sent by London to protect the British “concessions”.
- with the Portugal, the dictator Carmona represses a popular rising.
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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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1954 :
- with the Theater Bolchoï of Moscow, first of the Legend of the flower of stone ( Skaz O kamenom cvetke ) of Serge Prokofiev.
- an American study highlights the bond between some Cancer S and the consumption of Tabac.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
21e century
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2001
- 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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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.
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
- 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
- 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:
- 1933: Costa-Gavras (Konstantinos Gavras, known as), French director of Greek origin.
- 1937 : Victor-Emmanuel of Savoy, titrated “prince de Naples”
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- 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
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
Beats-smg: Vasarė 12
Be-X-old: 12 лютага
Fiu-vro: 12. radokuu päiv
Nds-nl: 12 febrewaori
Simple: February 12
Zh-yue: 2 月 12 號