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February 12
1554 - Lady Jane Grey, queen of England for nine days in 1553, was executed for high treason.
1733 - Led by philanthropist James Edward Oglethorpe, the first English colonists arrived in Georgia, at the site of Savannah.
1795 - The University of North Carolina became the first U.S. state university to admit students with the arrival of Hinton James.
1809 - Naturalist Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England.
1809 - Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Hardin (now LaRue) County, Kentucky.
1818 - Chile proclaimed independence from Spain.
1870 - The Utah Territory granted women the right to vote (which was revoked in 1887).
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.
1912 - Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Manchu dynasty in China, renounced his throne following the establishment of a republic under Sun Yat-sen.
1915 - The cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C.
1959 - The redesigned Lincoln penny -- with an image of the Lincoln Memorial replacing two ears of wheat on the reverse side -- went into circulation.
1973 - The first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam War took place.
1980 - The FBI announced that about $5,800 of the $200,000 ransom paid to hijacker “D.B. Cooper” before he parachuted from a Northwest Orient jetliner in 1971 had been found by an 8-year-old boy on a riverbank of the Columbia River in Washington state.
1993 - In a crime that shocked and outraged Britons, two 10-year-old boys lured 2-year-old James Bulger from his mother at a shopping mall near Liverpool, England, and beat him to death.
1999 - In his impeachment trial the United States Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
2000 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip, died at age 77.
2002 - Yugoslavian ex-president Slobodan Milosevic went on trial for war crimes.
2003 - The U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation of international treaties, sending the dispute to the Security Council.
2004 - Defying a California law, San Francisco officials began performing weddings for same-sex couples.
2008 - General Motors reported losing $38.7 billion in 2007, a record annual loss in automotive history, and offered buyouts to 74,000 hourly workers.
2009 - A commuter plane crashed into a suburban Buffalo, New York, home, killing all 49 aboard and a person in the house.
2019 - Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was convicted in New York of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation; a jury whose members’ identities were kept secret as a security measure had deliberated for six days. (Guzman is serving a life sentence at the federal supermax prison facility in Florence, Colorado.)
Birthdays
27 - Jennifer Stone (actress)
28 - Abigail Ratchford (model)
30 - Park Bo-young (actress)
30 - Katherine Barrell (actress)
30 - Robert Griffin III (football player)
32 - DeMarco Murray (football player)
36 - Jennie McAlpine (actress)
36 - Aylar Lie (model)
40 - Christina Ricci (actress)
40 - Sarah Lancaster (actress)
41 - Jesse Spencer (actor)
49 - Keri Lewis (musician)
52 - Chynna Phillips (singer)
52 - Josh Brolin (actor)
55 - Christine Elise (actress)
56 - Raphael Sbarge (actor)
57 - John Michael Higgins (ator)
64 - Arsenio Hall (actor/talk show host)
66 - Zach Grenier (actor)
67 - Joanna Kerns (actress)
70 - Steve Hackett (musician)
70 - Michael Ironside (actor)
74 - Cliff DeYoung (actor)
75 - Maud Adams (actress)
82 - Judy Blume (author)
84 - Joe Don Baker (actor)
86 - Bill Russell (basketball player)
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Today in Sports History - February 12
1876 - Al Spalding opens his sporting goods shop.
1878 - Frederick W. Thayer patented the baseball catcher's mask.
1937 - The Cleveland Rams are granted an NFL franchise.
1961 - Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics records 40 rebounds in a 136-125 win over the Philadelphia Warriors.
1982 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers tied the NHL record for points in a season when he got his 153rd point.
1987 - Bill Fitch became the fifth coach in NBA history to get 700 career wins.
1989 - Wayne Gretzky got his 45th career hat trick and achieved a 40+ goal season for the 10th time in his career.
1993 - The San Jose Sharks lost their 17th straight game to tie an NHL record.
1994 - The Winter Olympic Games open in Lillehammer, Norway.
1997 - Kevin Johnson reached 1,000 career steals.
2002 - Baseball owners approved the sale of the Florida Marlins and Montreal Expos.
2010 - The Winter Olympic Games opened in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The games got off to a tragic start when a luger from the Republic of Georgia, Nodar Kumaritashvili, died in a crash during a training run.
1554 - Lady Jane Grey, queen of England for nine days in 1553, was executed for high treason.
1733 - Led by philanthropist James Edward Oglethorpe, the first English colonists arrived in Georgia, at the site of Savannah.
1795 - The University of North Carolina became the first U.S. state university to admit students with the arrival of Hinton James.
1809 - Naturalist Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England.
1809 - Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Hardin (now LaRue) County, Kentucky.
1818 - Chile proclaimed independence from Spain.
1870 - The Utah Territory granted women the right to vote (which was revoked in 1887).
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.
1912 - Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Manchu dynasty in China, renounced his throne following the establishment of a republic under Sun Yat-sen.
1915 - The cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C.
1959 - The redesigned Lincoln penny -- with an image of the Lincoln Memorial replacing two ears of wheat on the reverse side -- went into circulation.
1973 - The first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam War took place.
1980 - The FBI announced that about $5,800 of the $200,000 ransom paid to hijacker “D.B. Cooper” before he parachuted from a Northwest Orient jetliner in 1971 had been found by an 8-year-old boy on a riverbank of the Columbia River in Washington state.
1993 - In a crime that shocked and outraged Britons, two 10-year-old boys lured 2-year-old James Bulger from his mother at a shopping mall near Liverpool, England, and beat him to death.
1999 - In his impeachment trial the United States Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
2000 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip, died at age 77.
2002 - Yugoslavian ex-president Slobodan Milosevic went on trial for war crimes.
2003 - The U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation of international treaties, sending the dispute to the Security Council.
2004 - Defying a California law, San Francisco officials began performing weddings for same-sex couples.
2008 - General Motors reported losing $38.7 billion in 2007, a record annual loss in automotive history, and offered buyouts to 74,000 hourly workers.
2009 - A commuter plane crashed into a suburban Buffalo, New York, home, killing all 49 aboard and a person in the house.
2019 - Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was convicted in New York of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation; a jury whose members’ identities were kept secret as a security measure had deliberated for six days. (Guzman is serving a life sentence at the federal supermax prison facility in Florence, Colorado.)
Birthdays
27 - Jennifer Stone (actress)
28 - Abigail Ratchford (model)
30 - Park Bo-young (actress)
30 - Katherine Barrell (actress)
30 - Robert Griffin III (football player)
32 - DeMarco Murray (football player)
36 - Jennie McAlpine (actress)
36 - Aylar Lie (model)
40 - Christina Ricci (actress)
40 - Sarah Lancaster (actress)
41 - Jesse Spencer (actor)
49 - Keri Lewis (musician)
52 - Chynna Phillips (singer)
52 - Josh Brolin (actor)
55 - Christine Elise (actress)
56 - Raphael Sbarge (actor)
57 - John Michael Higgins (ator)
64 - Arsenio Hall (actor/talk show host)
66 - Zach Grenier (actor)
67 - Joanna Kerns (actress)
70 - Steve Hackett (musician)
70 - Michael Ironside (actor)
74 - Cliff DeYoung (actor)
75 - Maud Adams (actress)
82 - Judy Blume (author)
84 - Joe Don Baker (actor)
86 - Bill Russell (basketball player)
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Today in Sports History - February 12
1876 - Al Spalding opens his sporting goods shop.
1878 - Frederick W. Thayer patented the baseball catcher's mask.
1937 - The Cleveland Rams are granted an NFL franchise.
1961 - Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics records 40 rebounds in a 136-125 win over the Philadelphia Warriors.
1982 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers tied the NHL record for points in a season when he got his 153rd point.
1987 - Bill Fitch became the fifth coach in NBA history to get 700 career wins.
1989 - Wayne Gretzky got his 45th career hat trick and achieved a 40+ goal season for the 10th time in his career.
1993 - The San Jose Sharks lost their 17th straight game to tie an NHL record.
1994 - The Winter Olympic Games open in Lillehammer, Norway.
1997 - Kevin Johnson reached 1,000 career steals.
2002 - Baseball owners approved the sale of the Florida Marlins and Montreal Expos.
2010 - The Winter Olympic Games opened in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The games got off to a tragic start when a luger from the Republic of Georgia, Nodar Kumaritashvili, died in a crash during a training run.
