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What happened in history on this day: February 12?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On February 12 in ...
- 1934 - Walt Disney Productions files an application for a trademark of "Mickey Mouse" for use in books and newspaper comic strips.
- 1939 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film The Brave Little Tailor for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1939 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Mother Goose Goes Hollywood for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1939 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Ferdinand the Bull for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1939 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Good Scouts for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1940 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film The Pointer for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1940 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film The Ugly Duckling for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1945 - Disney delivers the film The Right Spark Plug in the Right Place to the Electric Auto-Lite Company.
- 1951 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Cinderella for an Oscar Award in the category Sound Recording.
- 1951 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Cinderella for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture.
- 1951 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the song "Bibbidy Bobbidy Boo" from the film Cinderella for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Song.
- 1951 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film In Beaver Valley for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Two Reels.
- 1955 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for an Oscar Award in the category Art Direction - Set Decoration, color.
- 1955 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for an Oscar Award in the category Film Editing.
- 1955 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for an Oscar Award in the category Special Effects.
- 1955 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Pigs is Pigs for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1955 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Siam for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Two Reels.
- 1955 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film The Vanishing Prairie for an Oscar Award in the category Documentary, Features.
- 1960 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, featuring the tenth "Tales of Texas John Slaughter" episode, Desperado from Tombstone.
- 1967 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, entitled Gallegher Goes West, part four.
- 1973 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Napoleon and Samantha for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Original Dramatic Score.
- 1975 - The film of The Walt Disney Story closes at Disneyland.
- 1988 - The NBC TV network airs the TV special Disney's Magic in the Magic Kingdom. Magicians Siegfried and Roy appear to make Sleeping Beauty Castle disappear.
- 1988 - Disney releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Shoot to Kill to theaters in the US.
- 1989 - The NBC TV network airs The Magical World of Disney show, entitled Mickey's Happy Valentine Special, with Ludwig Von Drake.
- 1993 - Buena Vista generally releases the film Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey to theaters.
- 1993 - Disney releases the Touchstone Pictures film The Cemetery Club to theaters in the US.
- 1996 - Disney launches a ten-day preview of its Internet Web site, Disney.com.
- 1997 - Grenada issues sixteen postage stamps depicting various Disney characters in Hong Kong.
- 1999 - Bob Iger issues a memo saying ABC headquarters would be moved from New York to Burbank, California.
- 1999 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the Walt Disney Pictures live-action feature film My Favorite Martian to theaters in the US.
- 1999 - Buena Vista releases the live-action feature film Life is Beautiful to theaters in Great Britain.
- 2001 - Disney releases the animated film Buzz Lightyear of Star Command - The Adventure Begins on videocassette and DVD in the United Kingdom.
- 2002 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Monsters, Inc. for an award for animated feature.
- 2002 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Monsters, Inc. for an award for sound effects editing.
- 2002 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Monsters, Inc. for an award for original score.
- 2002 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the song "If I Didn't Have You" from the film Monsters, Inc. for an award for best original song.
- 2009 - Grand opening of The American Idol Experience at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World.
- 2009 - Buena Vista releases the Touchstone Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer Films movie Confessions of a Shopaholic to theaters in Russia and Thailand.
- 2012 - The Barnstormer Featuring the Great Goofini roller coaster opens in Storybook Circus in Mickey's Toontown at Walt Disney World.
- 2014 - A large sinkhole opens inside the National Corvette Museum Skydome, swallowing eight Corvettes. Only three are considered repairable.
- 1936 - Adolf Hitler decides the time is right for Germany to re-occupy the Rhineland.
- 1940 - The Australian 2nd Imperial Force and the New Zealand Expeditionary Force arrive at Suez, Egypt.
- 1941 - Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, Libya, with an advance party of German troops.
- 1942 - (1109 hours) British Royal Air Force patrols spot the three German warships traveling through the Straits of Dover.
- 1942 - Soviet troops capture Krasnodor.
- 1942 - (1218 hours) Coastal guns of Dover, England, open fire on the three German warships passing by, and motor torpedo boats launch torpedo attacks, but score no hits.
- 1942 - (1230 hours) Six British Swordfish and eleven Spitfires attack the three German warships in the English Channel, but all Swordfish are shot down.
- 1942 - (1335 hours) British bombers begin attacks on the three German warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen. By 1800 hours, 242 bombers have flown, but no ships have been hit.
- 1942 - (1431 hours) German battle cruiser Scharnhorst hits a mine, but is able to continue toward Kiel, at slower speed.
- 1942 - German battle cruiser Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen arrive safely in Kiel harbor, Germany. Germans lost one small escort vessel and 17 fighter planes. British lost 41 aircraft.
- 1943 - Winston Churchill writes to Josef Stalin, informing him of preparations for a cross-Channel invasion of Europe in August or September.
- 1944 - The first battle for Cassino ends in failure for the Allies. Since January 20, Allied casualties number 14,375, with German casualties at 6,444.
- 1945 - Poland issues ten postage stamps noting the dates of liberation of various Polish cities.
- 1946 - The US Government issues a 131-page memorandum to nineteen republics of the Western Hemisphere charging that the Argentine Government gave active support to the German war effort, and now gives refuge to powerful Nazi interests.
- 1953 - Poland issues two postage stamps marking the 10th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad.
- 1990 - Montserrat issues five postage stamps depicting World War II battleships.
- 1967 - Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison begin work on TV Game Unit 2, to continue developing ideas for a video game system.
- 2002 - Sega releases the Sonic Adventure 2 Battle video game for the GameCube and PlayStation 2 in the US.
- 2003 - Sony releases the EverQuest Online Adventures video game for the PlayStation 2.
- 2007 - Microsoft launches the Xbox Live Rewards program.
- 1658 - Swedish forces arrive at Vordingborg on Sjaelland, surprising the Danish defenders.
- 1771 - King Adolf Frederick dies. His son Prince Gustav becomes King Gustav III.
- 1994 - (to February 27) The 17th Olympic Winter Games are held in Lillehammer, Norway. Sweden wins 2 gold and 1 silver medals.
- 1870 - An official proclamation sets April 15 as the last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada.
- 1912 - A report from the stocktakers at the Mint lists 2,951.28 ounces of silver blanks for $1 coins on hand as of December 31, 1911.
- 2009 - The Royal Canadian Mint and the Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium of Canada launch the Top 10 Canadian Olympic Winter Moments contest, for the top three submissions to be featured on circulating 25-cent coins in late 2009.
- 2010 - The Royal Canadian Mint releases the 2010 Lucky Loonie dollar coin to circulation. The re3verse features the Inukshuk logo of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
- 1795 - Boston merchant Moses Brown makes first deposit of gold at Philadelphia Mint, $2275.22 in ingots, in payment for receipt of silver coins.
- 1838 - Dahlonega Branch Mint officially opens for business with acceptance of bullion and assaying operations.
- 1873 - The US Mint Act of 1873 is signed into law:
- the mint is established as a bureau within the Treasury Department;
- the silver dollar, 2-cent, silver 3-cent, and silver half dime are discontinued;
- half dollar weight increases from 192 grains to 192.904 (12.5 grams), with quarter dollar and dime set proportionately;
- a $3 gold coin is authorized;
- legal tender limit of 1-cent and 5-cent is set to 25 cents;
- the right of silver holders to have their silver stuck as legal tender dollar coins is abolished;
- a Trade dollar is established as 420 grains of 0.900 fine silver.
- 1959 - The US Mint releases the 1959 Lincoln, Memorial cent to circulation.
- 2009 - The US Mint releases to circulation the first of four 2009 Lincoln cents covering four phases of Abraham Lincoln's life. The first coin depicts the log cabin of his birth in Kentucky.
- 1878 - Frederick Thayer patents the baseball catcher's mask (patent number 200,358).
- 1880 - National Croquet League organizes (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
- 1899 - First two-man team six-day bicycle race in US begins, Madison Square Garden, New York City.
- 1908 - New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins in New York City, New York, USA.
- 1909 - Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6).
- 1920 - National League votes 6-2 for one commissioner American League votes 6-2 to keep group commission.
- 1929 - Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30).
- 1937 - Cleveland Rams granted an NFL franchise.
- 1949 - Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey.
- 1956 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open.
- 1958 - Boston Celtics' Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse Nationals 119-101.
- 1961 - Boston Celtics' player Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Philadelphia Warriors 136-125.
- 1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open.
- 1961 - Mushtaq Mohammad scores first Test Cricket century at age 17 years 82 days.
- 1964 - End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test cricket career.
- 1964 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming.
- 1964 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen.
- 1967 - Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater.
- 1971 - Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 and 0 Australia versus England.
- 1977 - Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0.
- 1978 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic.
- 1978 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne.
- 1978 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner.
- 1980 - New York Islanders second scoreless tie, versus Winnipeg Jets.
- 1980 - Richard Hadlee becomes New Zealand's top wicket-taker with 117.
- 1981 - Arbitrator Goetz declares Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent.
- 1982 - Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, tying NHL record.
- 1984 - Cale Yarborough becomes first Daytona 500 qualifier above 200 MPH.
- 1984 - West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup.
- 1984 - Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic.
- 1985 - 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary.
- 1985 - West Indies beats Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup.
- 1986 - First-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Island versus Guyana.
- 1989 - 39th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 143-134 at Houston, Texas.
- 1989 - 50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Larry Mowry.
- 1989 - Wayne Gretzky sets two records, his 45th hat trick and 10th 40+ goal season.
- 1989 - Thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-San Francisco, 80 days 20 hours.
- 1989 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman.
- 1991 - North and South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition.
- 1994 - (to February 27) XVII Olympic Winter Games are held in Lillehammer, Norway.
- 1995 - 45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix, Arizona.
- 1995 - Jeff Rouse swims world record 50 metre backstroke (24.37 seconds).
- 1995 - Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50 metre butterfly.
- 1995 - Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7 minutes 37.51 seconds).
- 1995 - Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (7 minutes 35.15 seconds).
- 1995 - Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.12 metres).
- 1995 - Susan Auch skates female world record 500 metre (38.94 seconds).
- 1995 - Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500 metre (38.69 seconds).
- 1998 - Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their fourth head coach.
- 2002 - For the first time in its history, Major League Baseball owns a team after acquiring the Expos from Jeffrey Loria for $120 million.
- 2010 - In Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the XXI Olympic Winter Games open. Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky lights the outdoor cauldron of the Olympic flame. 2600 athletes representing 82 nations are scheduled to participate in 86 events.
- 2022 - At Scotiabank Saddledrome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, NHL regular season game: Calgary Flames beats New York Islanders by score 5-2.
- 2022 - At Enterprise Center in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, NHL regular season game: Saint Louis Blues beats Chicago Blackhawks by score 5-1.
- 2022 - At Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, NHL regular season game: Minnesota Wild beats Carolina Hurricanes by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, NHL regular season game: Winnipeg Jets beats Nashville Predators by score 5-2.
- 2022 - At Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, NHL regular season game: Vancouver Canucks beats Toronto Maple Leafs by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, NHL regular season game: Columbus Blue Jackets beats Montreal Canadiens by score 2-1.
- 2022 - At Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, NHL regular season game: Boston Bruins beats Ottawa Senators by score 2-0.
- 2022 - At Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan, USA, NHL regular season game: Detroit Red Wings beats Philadelphia Flyers by score 4-2.
- 2023 - Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Kansas City Chiefs beat Philadelphia Eagles 38-35.
- 1955 - Soviets dedicate space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan.
- 1961 - USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus.
- 1979 - Kosmos 1076, first Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched.
- 2001 - The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
- 2008 - At the International Space Station, the Columbus laboratory module built by the Europe Space Agency is installed and opened for the first time.
- 1793 - First US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves.
- 1795 - Boston merchant Moses Brown makes first deposit of gold at Philadelphia Mint, $2275.22.
- 1825 - Creek Indian treaty signed with USA; tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the US government and migrate west by September 1, 1826.
- 1838 - The Dahlonega Mint in Georgia state, USA opens for operations.
- 1839 - Boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick leads to Aroostook.
- 1861 - State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, Arkansas.
- 1862 - US President Abraham Lincoln signs legislation authorizing additional $10 million in demand notes.
- 1870 - Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada.
- 1873 - The US Mint Act of 1873 is signed into law:
- the mint is established as a bureau within the Treasury Department;
- the silver dollar, 2-cent, silver 3-cent, and silver half dime are discontinued;
- half dollar weight increases from 192 grains to 192.904 (12.5 grams), with quarter dollar and dime set proportionately;
- a $3 gold coin is authorized;
- the right of silver holders to have their silver stuck as legal tender dollar coins is abolished;
- a Trade dollar is established as 420 grains of 0.900 fine silver.
- 1874 - King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Island, Hawaii, is first king to visit US.
- 1877 - First news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Massachusetts.
- 1877 - US railroad builders strike against wage reduction.
- 1879 - At New York City's Madison Square Garden, the first artificial ice rink in North America opens.
- 1899 - -47 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record).
- 1909 - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded in USA.
- 1915 - The cornerstone is laid for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
- 1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
- 1925 - First federal arbitration law approved by US Congress.
- 1932 - US Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon steps down.
- 1935 - Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean off Point Sur, California.
- 1944 - Wendell Wilkie (Republican) enters US presidential race.
- 1945 - San Francisco, California, selected for site of United Nations Conference.
- 1949 - Annie Get Your Gun closes at Imperial Theater in New York City after 1147 performances.
- 1950 - Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb.
- 1950 - US Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees.
- 1955 - US President Dwight Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam.
- 1959 - The US Mint releases the 1959 Lincoln Memorial cent to circulation.
- 1962 - Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia, USA.
- 1973 - First US POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines.
- 1973 - Ohio becomes the first US state to post distances on signs in System International (Metric) units.
- 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1981 - Admiral Bobby R Inman, US Navy, becomes deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1981 - US President Ronald Reagan names Angela Marie Buchanan as Treasurer of the US.
- 1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1987 - Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded US$7 million damages.
- 1988 - Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1994 - 20th century premiere of six restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston.
- 1997 - Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement.
- 1998 - Intel unveils its first graphics chip, the i740.
- 1998 - US district judge T Hogan declares the presidential line-item veto law is unconstitutional.
- 1999 - The US Senate votes on whether to remove President Bill Clinton from office. The president is acquitted on both articles of impeachment.
- 2002 - The U.S. Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear waste repository.
- 2004 - San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as an act of civil disobedience.
- 2007 - An armed gunman shoots and kills five people at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, before being killed by the police, bringing the evening's rampage death toll to six.
- 2008 - In the USA, General Motors reports a fiscal 2007 year loss of US$39 billion.
- 2008 - In Los Angeles and New York, film and television writers vote to lift their 100-day-old strike against major studios and return to work. Writers Guild of America members voted 92.5 percent in favor of ending the strike, with a new three-year contract approved in principle.
- 2009 - Colgan Air's Continental Connection Flight 3407 Dash 8 Q400 turboprop commuter plane nosedives and slams into a home in western New York state, killing all 49 people aboard and one on the ground.
- 2023 - The U.S. Air Force shoots down an unknown object flying over Lake Huron in Michigan.
Other history:
- 1818 - Chile gains independence from Spain.
- 2008 - In the USA, General Motors reports a fiscal 2007 year loss of US$39 billion.
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