February 12

Today in History
• 1130 - Pope Innocent II elected
• 1528 - Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor and ecclesiastical power
• 1541 - Santiago, Chile founded
• 1554 - Lady Jane Grey was beheaded after being charged with treason
• 1624 - English parliament comes together
• 1733 - Savannah, GA, was founded by English colonist James Oglethorpe
• 1818 - Chile gains independence from Spain
• 1878 - Frederick W. Thayer patented the baseball catcher’s mask


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Darwin Day
• Georgia Day
• Mother's Day Norway
• NAACP Day
• Oglethorpe Day
• Red Hand Day
• Super Bowl Sunday
• Union Day

Birthdays
• 1211 - Henry VII, Roman catholic German king, 1220-35
• 1606 - John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut
• 1663 - Cotton Mather, witchcraft authority
• 1768 - Francis II, Florence Italy, last Holy Roman emperor
• 1791 - Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist
• 1809 - Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, R, 16th President, 1861 - 1865
• 1809 - Charles Darwin, England, discovered evolution, 'Origin of Species'
• 1941 - Naomi Uemura, mountain climber, 1st Japanese to scale Everest