What events happened on February 12?

What events happened on February 12?

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🇺🇳 International Day for the Prevention of Violent Extremism.
🌏 Red Hand Day.
🌏 Darwin Day.
🌏 Clean Your Computer Day.
🌏 International Epilepsy Day.
🌏 World Cholangiocarcinoma Day

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇨🇴 Venezuela – Youth Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Georgia Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Marriage Freedom Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Abraham Lincoln’s birthday (national hero who abolished slavery).
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – 1990 Dushanbe riots commemoration day.
🇲🇲 Myanmar – Union Day.

👉 EVENTS:

– 881 – Charles III the Fat received the crown of Western Emperor from Pope John VIII.
– 1429 – The English defeated the French army near the village of Rouvre.
– 1429 – Joan of Arc announced her mission in the city of Vaucouleurs.
– 1593 – Battle of Imindje: Kwon Yula with 3,000 soldiers defeated 30,000 Japanese troops.
– 1797 – “God Save the Kaiser”, which became the anthem of the Austrian Empire, was first performed.
– 1810 – Napoleon Bonaparte approved a new penal code, which was in force until 1994.
– 1818 – Chile declared independence.
– 1832 – Ecuador annexed the Galapagos Islands.
– 1864 – Moscow Zoo opened.
– 1908 – The first world auto race began in New York.
– 1912 – Xinhai Revolution: Emperor Pu I abdicates.
– 1925 – The Karakalpakstan Autonomous Region is established.
– 1938 – Germany annexes Austria.
– 1941 – Penicillin is first successfully used to treat a patient.
– 1945 – Peru declares war on Germany.
– 1947 – The Sikhote-Alin meteorite falls in Primorsky Krai.
– 1955 – The Soviet government decides to create the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
– 1961 – The first automatic interplanetary station, Venera-1, is launched.
– 1990 – The clash between government forces and the opposition in Dushanbe, which begins a civil war.
– 1991 – The Autonomous Republic of Crimea was established.
– 1994 – The Republic of Uzbekistan joined the Universal Postal Union.
– 1994 – The XVII Winter Olympic Games opened in Lillehammer (Norway).
– 2010 – The monument “Oath to the Motherland” was unveiled in Tashkent.
– 2010 – The XXI Winter Olympic Games opened in Vancouver (Canada).