This Day In History

February 12

St. Saturninus & Companions -- Martyrs

1733  English colonists lead by James Ogelthorpe land in Savannah, Georgia.
1892  President Lincoln birthday is decalred a national holiday.
1909  NAACP forms.
1923  Director Franco Zefferelli born.
1924  Rapsody in Blue by George Gershwin premieres in New York.
1973  The first of the American POWs from North Vietnam are released.

1775   First Lady Louisa Adams Johnson, wife of 6th US President John Quincy Adams
1809   Naturalist Charles Darwin known for the theory of evolution which he later claimed was wrong .
1809  16th US President Abraham Lincoln born in a log cabin in Kentucky, also the 1st President to be assasinated.
1915  Actor Lorne Greene.
1919  Actor Forrest Tucker.
1923  Director Franco Zeffirelli.
1926  Baseball player Joe Garagiola.

1954

• Secret Love by Doris Day

• Stranger in Paradise by Tony Bennett

• That's Amore by Dean Martin

• Ricochet by Teresa Brewer

1963  

• Hey Paula by Paul & Paula

• Walk like a Man by The Four Seasons

• The Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Bobby Vee

• From a Jack to a King by Ned Miller

1972

• Let's Stay Together - Al Green

• Precious & Few by Climax

• Down by the Lazy River by The Osmonds

• One's on the Way by Loretta Lynn

1981  

• Celebration by Kool & The Gang

• The Tide is High by Blondie

• Starting Over by John Lennon

• I Keep Coming Back by Razzy Bailey

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