WHAT HAPPENED ON 12. FEBRUARY
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In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place. (12. February 1914)

George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music," in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano. (12. February 1924)

The Austrian Civil War begins. (12. February 1934)

In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Española. (12. February 1934)

USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks. (12. February 1935)

World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats. (12. February 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' film Touch of Evil. (12. February 1946)

A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union. (12. February 1947)

Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world. (12. February 1947)

Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus. (12. February 1961)

Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. (12. February 1963)

Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre. (12. February 1968)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union. (12. February 1974)

100 women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law. (12. February 1983)

Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia. (12. February 1990)

The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect. (12. February 1992)

Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream. (12. February 1994)

United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial. (12. February 1999)

NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. (12. February 2001)

The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion. (12. February 2002)