What Happened In February 2012 In History

Historical Events for February, 2012

• 6th » A 2012 Visayas earthquake or 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits near the central Philippines off the coast of Negros Island causing at least 51 deaths and injuring 112 others.
• 7th » President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives named Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
• 19th » 44 people are killed in a prison Apodaca prison riot known as brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León.
• 22nd » A 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster known as train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
• 23rd » A 23 February 2012 Iraq attacks named series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
• 26th » A 2012 Burlington VIA derailment named train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
• 27th » A section of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Russia, collapses in a 2012 Astrakhan gas explosion e.g natural gas explosion, killing 10 people and injuring at least 12 others.
• 29th » Tokyo Skytree construction completed. Now it is the List of tallest towers in the world tallest tower in the world, 634 meters high, and second tallest (man-made) structure on Earth, next to Burj Khalifa.

Famous Birthdays on February in 2012

• 23rd » Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland

Famous Deaths for February 2012

• 1st » Gerlando Alberti, Italian mobster (b. 1927)
• 1st » Robert B. Cohen, American businessman, founded Hudson News (b. 1925)
• 1st » Don Cornelius, American television host and producer (b. 1936)
• 1st » Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer (b. 1921)
• 1st » Ardath Mayhar, American author (b. 1930)
• 1st » Ladislao Nerio, Salvadoran footballer (b. 1976)
• 1st » David Peaston, American singer (b. 1957)
• 1st » Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
• 2nd » Joyce Barkhouse, Canadian author (b. 1913)
• 2nd » Frederick William Danker, American lexicographer and scholar (b. 1920)
• 2nd » George Esper, American journalist and academic (b. 1932)
• 2nd » Dorothy Gilman, American author (b. 1923)
• 2nd » James F. Lloyd, American pilot and politician (b. 1922)
• 4th » István Csurka, Hungarian journalist and politician (b. 1934)
• 4th » Robert Daniel, American farmer, soldier, and politician (b. 1936)
• 4th » Mike deGruy, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1951)
• 4th » Florence Green, English soldier (b. 1901)
• 4th » Nicolás Moreno (artist) or Nicolás Moreno, Mexican painter (b. 1923)
• 4th » Alan Reay, English general (b. 1925)
• 4th » János Sebestyén, Hungarian organist (b. 1931)
• 4th » Andrew Wight, Australian screenwriter and producer (b. 1959)
• 5th » Blaine (cartoonist) known as Blaine, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1937)
• 5th » Sam Coppola, American actor (b. 1932)
• 5th » Al De Lory, American keyboard player, producer, and conductor (b. 1930)
• 5th » Bill Hinzman, American actor and director (b. 1936)
• 5th » John Turner Sargent, Sr., American publisher (b. 1924)
• 5th » Jiang Ying (musician) known as Jiang Ying, Chinese opera singer (b. 1919)
• 5th » Jo Zwaan, Dutch sprinter (b. 1922)
• 6th » Peter Breck, American actor (b. 1929)
• 6th » Sharada Dwivedi, Indian historian and author (b. 1942)
• 6th » Nuri Otay, Turkish businessman (b. 1957)
• 6th » David Rosenhan, American psychologist and academic (b. 1929)
• 6th » Antoni Tàpies, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
• 6th » Janice E. Voss, American engineer and astronaut (b. 1956)
• 7th » Danny Clyburn, American baseball player (b. 1974)
• 7th » Patricia Stephens Due, American activist (b. 1939)
• 7th » Ann Dummett, English activist (b. 1930)
• 7th » Harry Keough, American soccer player and coach (b. 1927)
• 7th » Phil Shanahan, Irish hurler (b. 1928)
• 8th » Wando (singer) known as Wando, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 8th » Phil Bruns, American actor (b. 1931)
• 8th » Dennis Callahan, American politician (b. 1941)
• 8th » Laurie Main, Australian-American actor (b. 1922)
• 8th » Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi and author (b. 1912)
• 8th » Jimmy Sabater, Sr., American singer and timbales player (b. 1936)
• 8th » Luis Alberto Spinetta, Argentinean singer-songwriter (Almendra (band) known as Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, and Invisible (band) called Invisible) (b. 1950)
• 9th » Adam Adamowicz, American illustrator (b. 1968)
• 9th » O. P. Dutta, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 9th » John Hick, English philosopher and academic (b. 1922)
• 9th » Joe Moretti, Scottish-South African guitarist (b. 1938)
• 9th » Don Panciera, American football player and coach (b. 1927)
• 10th » Ronald Fraser (historian) called Ronald Fraser, English historian and author (b. 1930)
• 10th » Joseph Gaggero, Gibraltarian businessman (b. 1927)
• 10th » Gloria Lloyd, American model and actress (b. 1924)
• 10th » Wilmot Perkins, Jamaican radio host (b. 1931)
• 10th » David Anthony Pizzuto, Canadian-American voice actor (b. 1951)
• 10th » James Riordan, English author (b. 1936)
• 10th » Jeffrey Zaslow, American journalist and author (b. 1958)
• 11th » Siri Bjerke, Norwegian politician, Minister of the Environment (Norway) called Norwegian Minister of the Environment (b. 1958)
• 11th » Gene Crumling, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 11th » Aharon Davidi, Israeli general (b. 1927)
• 11th » Whitney Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (b. 1963)
• 11th » Jeffrey Perry (British actor) known as Jeffrey Perry, English actor (b. 1949)
• 12th » Galal Amer, Egyptian journalist (b. 1952)
• 12th » Zina Bethune, American actress, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1945)
• 12th » Denis Flannery, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1928)
• 12th » Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley, English pianist and composer (b. 1923)
• 12th » David Kelly (actor) e.g David Kelly, Irish actor (b. 1929)
• 12th » John Severin, American illustrator (b. 1921)
• 12th » Howard Zimmerman, American chemist and academic (b. 1926)
• 13th » Russell Arms, American actor and singer (b. 1920)
• 13th » Frank Braña, Spanish actor (b. 1934)
• 13th » Louise Cochrane, American-English screenwriter and producer (b. 1918)
• 13th » Humayun Faridi, Bangladeshi actor (b. 1952)
• 13th » Daniel C. Gerould, American playwright and academic (b. 1928)
• 13th » Kushimaumi Keita, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (b. 1965)
• 13th » Freddie Solomon, American football player (b. 1953)
• 14th » V. S. Acharya, Indian politician (b. 1940)
• 14th » Mike Bernardo, South African boxer and martial artist (b. 1969)
• 14th » Tonmi Lillman, Finnish drummer and producer (Lordi, Sinergy, To/Die/For, and Ajattara (band) e.g Ajattara) (b. 1973)
• 14th » Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
• 14th » Péter Rusorán, Hungarian swimmer, water polo player, and coach (b. 1940)
• 15th » Charles Anthony (tenor) e.g Charles Anthony, American tenor (b. 1929)
• 15th » William H. Dabney, American colonel (b. 1934)
• 15th » Cyril Domb, English-Israel physicist and academic (b. 1920)
• 15th » Lina Romay, Spanish actress and director (b. 1954)
• 15th » Clive Shakespeare, English-Australian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Sherbet (band) called Sherbet) (b. 1949)
• 15th » James Whitaker (journalist) named James Whitaker, English journalist (b. 1940)
• 15th » John J. Yeosock, American general (b. 1937)
• 16th » Chikage Awashima, Japanese actress (b. 1924)
• 16th » Gary Carter, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
• 16th » Donald Henry Colless, Australian entomologist (b. 1922)
• 16th » Elyse Knox, American model, actress, and fashion designer (b. 1917)
• 16th » John Macionis, American swimmer (b. 1916)
• 16th » Kathryn McGee, American activist (b. 1920)
• 16th » Anthony Shadid, American journalist (b. 1968)
• 16th » Dick Anthony Williams, American actor (b. 1934)
• 17th » Robert Carr, English engineer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1916)
• 17th » Clarence Dart, American captain and pilot (b. 1920)
• 17th » Michael Davis (bassist) named Michael Davis, American singer-songwriter and bass player (MC5) (b. 1943)
• 17th » Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Dutch mathematician and theorist (b. 1918)
• 17th » Ulric Neisser, German-American psychologist and academic (b. 1928)
• 17th » Howie Nunn, American baseball player (b. 1935)
• 18th » Roald Aas, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (b. 1928)
• 18th » George Brizan, Grenadian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1942)
• 18th » Elizabeth Connell, South African-English soprano (b. 1946)
• 18th » Peter Halliday, Welsh-English actor (b. 1924)
• 18th » Matt Lamb, American painter (b. 1932)
• 18th » Roger Miner, American judge (b. 1934)
• 18th » Cal Murphy, Canadian football player, coach, and manager (b. 1932)
• 19th » Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale, Australian-English politician (b. 1933)
• 19th » Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher and logician (b. 1921)
• 19th » Frits Staal, Dutch philosopher (b. 1930)
• 19th » Stasys Stonkus, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1931)
• 19th » Jaroslav Velinský, Czech author and songwriter (b. 1932)
• 21st » Ranil Abeynaike, Sri Lankan cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1955)
• 21st » H. M. Darmstandler, American general (b. 1922)
• 21st » Colin Ireland, English serial killer (b. 1954)
• 21st » Fay Kleinman, American painter (b. 1912)
• 21st » Benjamin Romualdez, Filipino politician (b. 1930)
• 21st » Leonard Rosoman, English firefighter and painter (b. 1913)
• 21st » Barney Rosset, American publisher (b. 1922)
• 22nd » Sukhbir (writer) called Sukhbir, Indian author and poet (b. 1925)
• 22nd » Frank Carson, Irish-English comedian and actor (b. 1926)
• 22nd » Marie Colvin, American journalist (b. 1956)
• 22nd » Lyudmila Kasatkina, Russian actress (b. 1925)
• 22nd » Thabang Lebese, South African footballer (b. 1973)
• 22nd » Mike Melvoin, American pianist and composer (The Wrecking Crew (music) e.g The Wrecking Crew) (b. 1937)
• 22nd » Rémi Ochlik, French photographer (b. 1983)
• 22nd » Billy Strange, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Wrecking Crew (music) named The Wrecking Crew) (b. 1930)
• 23rd » William Gay (author) named William Gay, American author (b. 1941)
• 23rd » Peter King (footballer born 1964) known as Peter King, English footballer (b. 1964)
• 23rd » William Raggio, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
• 23rd » David Sayre, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1924)
• 23rd » Bruce Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1937)
• 23rd » Kazimierz Żygulski, Polish sociologist and activist (b. 1919)
• 24th » Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal (b. 1912)
• 24th » Agnes Allen, American baseball player and therapist (b. 1930)
• 24th » István Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer and educator (b. 1919)
• 24th » Jan Berenstain, American author and illustrator (b. 1923)
• 24th » Theodore Mann, American director and producer (b. 1924)
• 24th » Kenneth Price, American sculptor and painter (b. 1935)
• 24th » Pery Ribeiro, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
• 24th » Jay Ward (baseball) called Jay Ward, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1938)
• 24th » Oliver Wrong, English nephrologist and academic (b. 1925)
• 25th » Maurice André, French trumpet player (b. 1933)
• 25th » Lynn Compton, American lieutenant, lawyer, and judge (b. 1921)
• 25th » Dick Davies, American basketball player (b. 1936)
• 25th » Red Holloway, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
• 25th » Erland Josephson, Swedish actor and director (b. 1923)
• 25th » Louisiana Red, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
• 25th » Martha Stewart (actress) named Martha Stewart, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 26th » Ed Brigadier, American actor (b. 1949)
• 26th » Richard Carpenter (screenwriter) e.g Richard Carpenter, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 26th » Don Joyce (American football) e.g Don Joyce, American football player and wrestler (b. 1929)
• 26th » Trayvon Martin, American homicide victim (b. 1995)
• 26th » George E. Terwilleger, American politician (b. 1941)
• 27th » Ely Bielutin, Russian painter (b. 1925)
• 27th » Vince Dantona, American ventriloquist (b. 1949)
• 27th » Ma Jiyuan, Chinese general (b. 1921)
• 27th » Tina Strobos, Dutch physician and psychiatrist (b. 1920)
• 27th » Helga Vlahović, Croatian journalist and producer (b. 1945)
• 28th » Frisner Augustin, Haitian drummer and composer (b. 1948)
• 28th » Jaime Graça, Portuguese footballer and coach (b. 1942)
• 28th » Jim Green (councilman) named Jim Green, American-Canadian educator and politician (b. 1943)
• 28th » Bai Jing, Chinese actress (b. 1983)
• 28th » Hal Roach (comedian) named Hal Roach, Irish comedian and author (b. 1927)
• 29th » Roland Bautista, American guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire) (b. 1951)
• 29th » Ertjies Bezuidenhout, South African cyclist (b. 1955)
• 29th » Dennis Chinnery, English actor (b. 1927)
• 29th » Fukuzo Iwasaki, Japanese businessman (b. 1925)
• 29th » Davy Jones (musician) named Davy Jones, English singer, guitarist, and actor (The Monkees) (b. 1945)
• 29th » Karl Kodat, Austrian footballer (b. 1943)
• 29th » Sheldon Moldoff, American illustrator (b. 1920)
• 29th » Horacio Morales, Filipino economist and politician (b. 1943)
• 29th » Violet Wood, English super-centenarian (b. 1899)

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