February 12: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1733 - Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
2. 1825 - The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
3. 1851 - Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales,Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.
4. 1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
5. 1914 - In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
6. 1946 - African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' filmTouch of Evil.
7. 1994 - Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
8. 1999 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachmenttrial.
9. 2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
10. 2004 - The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
11. Famous Birthdays: Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (German botanist and physician), étienne-Louis Boullée (French architect), Carl Reichenbach (German chemist and philosopher), Charles Darwin (English scientist and theorist), Abraham Lincoln (American lawyer and politician, 16th President of the United States)

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