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Notable anniversaries in history for today: February 12
- 400th: 1624 - English parliament comes together.
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati; Indian Hindu leader.
- 150th: 1874 - King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Island, Hawaii, is first king to visit US.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Hans Berghuis; Dutch author/poet (Three Women, Adam).
- 100th: 1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Annette Crosbie in Edinburgh, Scotland; actress (Six Wives of Henry VIII, One Foot in the Grave).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Bill Russell in Monroe, Louisiana, USA; NBA star (Boston Celtics, Olympics-gold-1956).
- 90th: 1934 - France hit by a general strike against fascists and royalists.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Desmond Nuttall; English educator.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Moe Bandy in Meridian, Mississippi, USA; country vocalist (Just Good Ol' Boys).
- 80th: 1944 - Wendell Wilkie (Republican) enters US presidential race.
- 70th: 1954 - Dziga Vertov [Kaufman], Russian director (Three Songs of Lenin), dies at age 58.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Maurice Douglass; NFL safety (New York Giants).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Michel Petit in Saint Malo, France; NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Milton Small; cricket pace bowler (West Indies versus Australia 1984).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Raphael Sbarge; actor (Glenn - Risky Business, Sherman - My Science Project, Brian - Better Days).
- 60th: 1964 - End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test cricket career.
- 60th: 1964 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming.
- 60th: 1964 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Ian Mcintyre in Montréal, Quebec, Canada; NHL left wing (Vancouver Canucks).
- 40th: 1984 - Cale Yarborough becomes first Daytona 500 qualifier above 200 MPH.
- 40th: 1984 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (Final del Juego), dies at age 69.
- 40th: 1984 - West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup.
- 40th: 1984 - Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic.
- 40th: 1984 - Anna Anderson Manahan [claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia] dies in Virginia.
- 30th: 1994 - (to February 27) XVII Olympic Winter Games are held in Lillehammer, Norway.
- 30th: 1994 - 20th century premiere of six restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston.
- 30th: 1994 - Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is stolen in a 50-second robbery of a museum in Oslo, Norway.
- 25th: 1999 - The US Senate votes on whether to remove President Bill Clinton from office. The president is acquitted on both articles of impeachment.
- 20th: 2004 - San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as an act of civil disobedience.
- 15th: 2009 - Colgan Air's Continental Connection Flight 3407 Dash 8 Q400 turboprop commuter plane nosedives and slams into a home in western New York state, killing all 49 people aboard and one on the ground.
- 5th: 2019 - The Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia, officially ending a decades-old dispute with Greece and paving the way for the former's integration into NATO and the European Union.
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