Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn emerged as one of the most…
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12 February 1963
Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is an iconic 630-foot (192-meter) stainless steel monument…
12 February 1909
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is one of…
12 February 1988
The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown (CG-48) is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial…
12 February 1993
Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.
12 February 2004
The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom. The recognition of same-sex…
12 February 1961
The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_1′]
12 February 1961
The USSR launches Venera 1 towards Venus. On November 16, 1965, Soviet spacecraft Venera 3 was launched. The Venera program space probe was built and…
12 February 1961
The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 to fly to the planet, Venus. Venera 1, the first spacecraft to fly past Venus, was launched by the…
12 February 1963
Construction starts on the Gateway Arch in St Louis, Missouri. The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot monument in St. Louis in the U.S. state of…