On This Day:
Thursday February 12, 2015 This is the 43rd day of the year, with 322 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: history It has been explained as if you had 1 through 1 million squares, the earth's history with humans represents 1 square.
Holidays Feast day of St. Julian the Hospitaller, St. Ethelwald of Lindisfarne, St. Antony Kauleas, St. Marina or Pelagia, St. Meletius, and St. Ludan.
Myanmar: Union Day.
Events 1709 - Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish seaman whose adventures inspired the story of "Robinson Crusoe," was taken off Juan Fernandez Island after four years of being marooned.
1793 - Congress passed the first fugitive slave law, requiring all states, including those that forbad slavery, to forcibly return slaves who had escaped from other states to their original owners.
1818 - Chile gained independence from Spain.
1892 - President Abraham Lincoln's birthday was declared a national holiday.
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.
1912 - Hsüan-T'ung (Pu Yi), the last emperor of China, was forced to abdicate following Sun Yat-sen's republican revolution; he was six years old. China became a republic following the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty.
1924 - George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" premiered in New York.
1973 - The first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam War took place.
1999 - The U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton, after the five-week impeachment trial, on both articles of impeachment, perjury and obstruction of justice.
2004 - Mattel announced the split of Barbie and Ken.
2006 - The second Sydney Body Art Ride breaks a world record for the largest group of painted people, and raised more than $10,000 for Children's Cancer Institute of Australia.
Births 1567 - Thomas Campion, English composer and poet.
1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America.
1809 - Charles Darwin, British naturalist, theorist of evolution.
1880 - John L. Lewis, U.S. labor leader, United Mine Workers of America.
1904 - Ted Mack (William McGuiness), American TV host.
1923 - Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director.
1934 - Bill Russell, American basketball Hall of Famer.
1952 - Michael McDonald, American musician, known for his trademark husky baritone voice.
1970 - Jim Creeggan, Canadian bassist.
1974 - Toranosuke Takagi, Japanese race car driver.
Deaths 1789 - Ethan Allen, an early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader during the era of the Vermont Republic and the New Hampshire Grants.
1971 - James C. Penney, American department store founder.
2000 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip.
2000 - Tom Landry, Hall of Fame football coach who led the Dallas Cowboys to five Super Bowls.
2005 - Sammi Smith (born Jewel Fay Smith), a country music singer and songwriter, born in Orange County, California.
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