February 12 Holidays

✡️ Religious Observances

• Buddhist: Magha Puja major

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2009 — Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport,... ↗
• 2004 — The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom. ↗
• 2002 — The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International... ↗
• 2002 — An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport,... ↗
• 2001 — NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1995 — Josh King, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 — Patrick Herrmann, German footballer
• 1990 — Robert Griffin III, American football player
• 1988 — DeMarco Murray, American football player
• 1988 — Mike Posner, American singer-songwriter and producer