February 12

Definition: February 12

February 12

Noun

1. (US) the day on which President Abraham Lincoln is remembered.

Specialty Definition: February 12

February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 322 days remaining, 323 in leap years.

Events

1541 - Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1554 - Nine days after claiming the throne of England, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
1733 - English colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.
1818 - Chile gains its independence from Spain.
1825 - The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west.
1832 - Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands.
1870 - Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory.
1879 - At New York City's Madison Square Garden the first artificial ice rink in North America opens.
1892 - Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States.
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1912 - China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1915 - In Washington, DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
1934 - The Export-Import Bank is incorporated.
1938 - World War II: German troops enter Austria.
1973 - Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in metric on signs.
1973 - Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.
1994 - 1994 Winter Olympic Games open in Lillehammer, Norway.
1998 - The presidential line-item veto is declared unconstitutional by United States federal judge.
1999 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002 - The trial of former President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
2002 - Nuclear waste: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear repository.
2002 - An Iran Air Tours, a subsidiary of Iran Air, Tupolev TU-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran killing 119

Births

1567 - Thomas Campion, composer, poet
1768 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor († 1835)
1775 - Louisa Adams, First Lady, wife of President John Quincy Adams
1777 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, poet († 1843)
1809 - Charles Darwin, naturalist
1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States († 1865)
1861 - Lou Andreas-Salome, author († 1937)
1880 - John L. Lewis, labor union leader († 1969)
1881 - Anna Pavlova, ballerina († 1931)
1884 - Max Beckmann, painter and graphic artist († 1950)
1884 - Marie Vassilieff, artist († 1957)
1893 - Omar Bradley, general († 1981)
1914 - Tex Beneke, musician, band leader († 2000)
1915 - Lorne Greene, actor († 1987)
1919 - Forrest Tucker, actor († 1986)
1923 - Franco Zeffirelli, film director
1925 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician († 1984)
1926 - Paul Kurtz, philosopher, founder of numerous secular humanist groups
1932 - Julian Simon, economist, author († 1998)
1933 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer
1934 - Bill Russell, basketball star
1938 - Judy Blume, author
1939 - Ray Manzarek, keyboardist
1942 - Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
1950 - Michael Ironside, actor
1954 - Philip Zimmermann, cryptographer
1955 - Arsenio Hall, actor, talk show host
1980 - Christina Ricci, actress

Deaths

1554 - Lady Jane Grey, briefly Queen of England
1916 - Richard Dedekind, mathematician
1929 - Lily Langtry, singer, actress
1954 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker
1971 - James C. Penney, department store founder
1976 - Sal Mineo, actor
1979 - Jean Renoir, director
1982 - Victor Jory, actor
1983 - Eubie Blake, musician, songwriter
1995 - Robert Bolt, writer
2000 - Charles Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
2000 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, musician
2000 - Tom Landry, American football coach

Holidays and observances

United States - Lincoln's Birthday (traditionally)
2002 Chinese new year
1991, 2002, 2013 Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)

See Also:

February 11 - February 13 - January 12 - March 12 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Photo Album: February 12

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	February 12 -- Lincoln's Birthday.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: February 12

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Mongolia	Constitutions: 1960 and February 12, 1992. (references)
	Mongolia	February 12, 1992: New constitution goes into effect. (references)
	Chile	On February 12, 1818, Chile was proclaimed an independent republic under O'Higgins' leadership. (references)
Travel	Trinidad	In 2002 they will fall on Monday, February 11 and Tuesday, February 12, respectively. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Anagrams: February 12

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "1-2-a-b-e-f-r-r-u-y"
	-4 letters: brayer, rarefy, rebury.
	-5 letters: barer, barre, barye, berry, burry, buyer, faery, farer, ferry, feuar, fryer, furry, rebar, rebuy, refry, urare, yarer, yerba.
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