On This Day for February 12 - Chile's independence from Spain declared, Abraham Lincoln is featured, and more ~ Historian Fact

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On This Day for February 12 - Chile's independence from Spain declared, Abraham Lincoln is featured, and more

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February 12

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Abraham Lincoln

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1818

Chile's independence from Spain declared

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2002: Slobodan Milošević , president of Yugoslavia in 1997–2000, went on trial for war crimes in The Hague, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; he died four years later, before the trial had ended. [Watch a video about the International Criminal Court.]

1994: Thieves broke into the National Gallery in Oslo and stole The Scream (later recovered), one of several versions Norwegian artist Edvard Munch made of his most famous painting. [Read more about this and other notable art thefts.]

1934: American basketball player Bill Russell, one of the greatest defensive centres in NBA history and the first Black coach of a major professional American sports team (the Boston Celtics), was born. [ See if Bill Russell made our list of the 10 greatest basketball players of all time.]

An NAACP march in New York City during World War I.

1909: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.

1809: British naturalist Charles Darwin, who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection, was born. [ What Darwin got right (and wrong) about evolution.]

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