February 12: Lincoln's Birthday in some parts of the United States; Red Hand Day
Depiction of the Café Terminus attack
- 1894 – Ère des attentats: In one of the first acts of modern terrorism, Émile Henry threw a bomb into Café Terminus (depicted) in Paris, France, killing one person and injuring 17 more.
- 1935 – USS Macon, one of the largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.
- 1993 – Two-year-old James Bulger was led away from New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, England, and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, who became the youngest convicted murderers in modern English history.
- 2001 – The NASA space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
- 2016 – In the first meeting between the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow signed the Havana Declaration at José Martí International Airport in Cuba.
- Wulfhelm (d. 941)
- Pari Khan Khanum (d. 1578)
- Mary Young Pickersgill (b. 1776)
- Jean Eyeghé Ndong (b. 1946)
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