Historical events on February 12
FEBRUARY 12, 1935
The USS Macon, one of the largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sank<--!(contemporary artist's rendering of the crash).-->
USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting and served as a "flying
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FEBRUARY 12, 1968
Following the deaths of two employees on the job, black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, began a strike that lasted more than two months.
Echol Cole and Robert Walker were sanitation workers who died accidentally in Memphis, Tennessee at the corner of Colonial Rd. and Verne
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FEBRUARY 12, 1942
The Imperial Japanese Army initiated the Battle of Pasir Panjang in Kent Ridge Park in Singapore.
The Imperial Japanese Army was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan from 1871 to 1945. It played a central
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FEBRUARY 12, 1502
Queen Isabella I issued an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of Castile, forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity.
Isabella I, also called Isabella the Catholic, was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504. She was
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FEBRUARY 12, 2016
In the first meeting between the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow signed the Havana Declaration at José Martí International Airport in Cuba.
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide
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FEBRUARY 12, 1909
The ferry SS Penguin struck a rock in Wellington Harbour and sank, killing 75 people in New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century.
SS Penguin was a New Zealand inter-island ferry steamer that sank off the southwest coast of Wellington after striking a rock near
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FEBRUARY 12, 1988
While claiming the right of innocent passage through Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea, the American cruiser USS Yorktown and destroyer USS Caron were bumped by Soviet warships.
Innocent passage is a concept in the law of the sea that allows for a vessel to pass through the territorial sea
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FEBRUARY 12, 1691
A papal conclave convened to select a new pope after the death of Pope Alexander VIII.
The 1691 papal conclave was convened on the death of Pope Alexander VIII and ended with the election of Cardinal Antonio Pignatelli
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FEBRUARY 12, 1946
African-American U.S. Army veteran Isaac Woodard was severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer and lost sight in both eyes, an incident that galvanized the civil rights movement.
The United States Army (USA) is the primary land service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is designated as
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FEBRUARY 12, 1994
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream (pictured) was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway.
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images.
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FEBRUARY 12, 2009
Just before it was scheduled to land at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a house in Clarence Center, New York, killing the house's occupant and all 49 people on board the aircraft.
Buffalo Niagara International Airport is in Cheektowaga, New York, United States. The airport serves Buffalo, New York and Niagara Falls, New York
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FEBRUARY 12, 2003
Protesters in La Paz and the Bolivian government brokered a deal to end two days of rioting against a proposed salary tax.
La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz, is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. With 755,732 residents
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FEBRUARY 12, 2001
The NASA space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United States's civil space
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FEBRUARY 12, 1924
George Gershwin's composition Rhapsody in Blue premiered at Aeolian Hall in New York.
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the
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FEBRUARY 12, 1947
The French fashion company Dior unveiled its New Look collection (suit pictured), which revolutionized women's dress and re-established Paris as the centre of the fashion world after World War II.
Christian Dior SE, commonly known as Dior, is a French multinational luxury goods company that is controlled and chaired by French businessman
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FEBRUARY 12, 1945
A devistating tornado outbreak across Mississippi and Alabama kills 45 people and injures 427 others.
On February 12, 1945, a devastating tornado outbreak occurred across the Southeastern United States. The storms killed 45 people and injured 427 others.
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