Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 12
This is a list of selected February 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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General Bernardo O'Higgins of Chile -
Xuantong, the last Emperor of China -
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Michigan State University's Beaumont Tower -
Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Lincoln's Birthday in parts of the United States | refimprove |
| 881 – Pope John VIII crowned Charles the Fat as Holy Roman Emperor. | refimprove section |
| 1429 – Hundred Years' War: At the Battle of the Herrings, English forces under John Fastolf successfully defended a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the French. | needs more footnotes |
| 1502 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama set sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India with the object of enforcing Portuguese interests in the Far East. | Gama: unreferenced section; 4th Portuguese India Armada: refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1554 – Lady Jane Grey, "The Nine Days Queen of England" in 1553, was executed for high treason at the Tower of London. | Save article for July 10 |
| 1733 – James Oglethorpe founded the city of Savannah along with the Province of Georgia, the last of the Thirteen Colonies established by Great Britain in what later became the United States. | undue weight, refimprove section, primary sources |
| 1816 – The original building of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy, today the oldest continuously active opera house in Europe, was destroyed by fire. Its reconstructed building was inaugurated exactly one year later. | tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1825 – Under the Treaty of Indian Springs, the Creeks, a Native American group, ceded the last of their lands in Georgia to the US government and migrated west. | refimprove |
| 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States, was founded to work on behalf of the rights of African Americans. | unreferenced section, section needs to be rewritten |
| 1934 – Austrian Civil War | Save for February 16 |
| 1935 – The USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sank. | needs more footnotes |
| 1988 – While exercising the "right of innocent passage" through Soviet waters, the USS Yorktown was intentionally rammed by a Soviet Burevestnik class frigate in what was described as "the last incident of the Cold War". | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1818 – On the first anniversary of its victory in the Battle of Chacabuco, Chile formally declared its independence from Spain.
- 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.
- 1994 – Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway.
- 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.
February 12: Mardi Gras and Shrove Tuesday in Western Christianity (2013); Darwin Day; Red Hand Day
- 1541 – Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia founded Santiago, today the capital of Chile, as Santiago del Nuevo Extremo.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001 – NASA's robotic space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros (pictured), becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.