02-12-2005, 06:35 AM
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February 12th
1544 ~ Death of Lady Jane Grey, briefly Queen of England.
1733 ~ Englishman James Oglethorpe founded the 13th and final American colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah.
1804 ~ Death of Immanuel Kant, German philosopher.
1809 ~ Birthday of Charles Darwin, Naturalist
1870 ~ Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory.
1893 ~ Birthday of Omar Bradley, General.
1909 ~ The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.
1999 ~ President Bill Clinton was acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2000 ~ Death of Charles M. Schulz, creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip.
2002 ~ The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic began at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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