12 February In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, February 12 is the day number 43 in a given year. February 12 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1541	Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia founded Santiago, today the capital of Chile, as Santiago del Nuevo Extremo.
1719	Oderlinge van 1719 UA, the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands.
1742	The great Maratha diplomat Nana Phadnavis was born.
1771	Gustav III became king of Sweden.
1771	Gustav III became king of Sweden.
1804	Emanuel Kant, eminent philosopher and thinker of Germany, died at the age of 80.
1809	The 16th President of America, Abraham Lincoln, was born.
1817	The Argentine / Chilean Patriotic Army defeated the Spanish Army at the Battle of Chacabuco.
1818	Chile declared its independence from Spain.
1818	The South American country Chile gained independence from Spain.
1818	On the first anniversary of its victory in the Battle of Chacabuco, Chile formally declared its independence from Spain.
1855	Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, was founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the United States' first agricultural college.
1877	American railway builders strike against wage reduction.
1912	China adopted the Gregorian calendar.
1912	Xinhai Revolution: Puyi, the last Emperor of China, abdicated under a deal brokered by military official and politician Yuan Shikai, formally replacing the Qing Dynasty with a new republic in China.
1912	Xinhai Revolution: Puyi, the last Emperor of China, abdicated under a deal brokered by military official and politician Yuan Shikai, formally replacing the Qing Dynasty with a new republic in China.
1914	Washington DC. In, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial was laid.
1928	Gandhiji declared Satyagraha in Bardoli.
1946	Black United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard was severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point that he lost his vision in both eyes, an incident that galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.
1947	French designer Christian Dior unveiled a 'New Look' that revolutionized women's dress and reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world after World War II.
1947	The Sikhote-Alin meteorite, one of the largest iron meteorite impacts ever observed, fell in the Sikhote-Alin Range in Siberia.
1948	Hasan al-Banna, the famous Egyptian militant and founder of the Ikhwanul Muslimeen organization, was conspired and martyred by the then Egyptian King Malik Farooq.
1951	Mohammad Raza Shah married Soraya Aspendi Bakhtiar.
1974	Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested and subsequently deported from the Soviet Union for writing The Gulag Archipelago, an exposé of the Soviet forced labour camp system.
1988	Anthony Kennedy was appointed to the Supreme Court of United States.
1993	Two-year-old James Bulger was led away from New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, England, and brutally murdered by two ten-year-old boys, who became the youngest convicted murderers in modern English history.
1994	Edward Munk's famous petting 'The Scream' was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway.
1994	Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway.
1995	Mark Foster makes a new world record by swimming 50m butterfly in about 23.55 seconds.
1999	Senate acquits the President Clinton who was lying under an oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewinsky case.
2001	NASA's robotic space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002	119 people were killed when an Iranian plane crashed while landing at Khurramabad Airport.
2002	Iran air tours flight about 950 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119.
2006	Dick Cheney accidentally shoots friend in a hunting accident.
2009	Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe
2009	Just before it was scheduled to land at Buffalo NiagaraInternational Airport, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a house inClarence Center, New York, killing the house's occupant and all 49people on board the aircraft.
2010	The 21st Winter Olympic Games began in Vancouver, Canada.
2010	A ceasefire was been declared in Northern Yemen by the Houthi fighters and the Yemen government.
2011	Nearly about 5,000 of Algerians protested for their regime called for the president. Abdelazia boutefloka to be removed inspired by the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.
2012	A British Singer, Adele, was awarded for the song of the year. Record of the year and albino of the year the Germany Awards.
2013	North Korea conducted a third underground nuclear test.
2013	The international Olympic Committee announces that the sports of wrestling have been dropped out from 2020 summer Olympics in 2013.
2014	After twenty eight years Philippine dictator Ferdinand Macos was ousted because the Philippine government recons $29 million from Swiss accounts by bringing the secret accounts of Macros that were recovered then handed $712 million to the government.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1871	Charles Freer Andrews, a Christian missionary, educationist and social reformer in India, was born in Newcastle, England.
1901	Viceroy of India Lord Curzon built the new North-West Frontier Province in Punjab near the border of Afghanistan.
1975	India declared itself to be smallpox.

Day/Observance	Level
Rose Day	National Day
Darwin Day	International Day
National Productivity Day	National Day
International Day Against Child Soldiers	National Day
National Productivity Week (12 to 18 Feb)	National Day

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1824	Dayananda Saraswati / Philosopher / India
1824	Dayananda Saraswati / Philosopher / India
1920	Pran / Actor / India
1928	Lalit Mohan Sharma / Lawyer / India

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