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On This Day In History for February 12, 2025
This is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 322 days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1404, that The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen-Geist Spital in Vienna..
523 years ago today, Vasco da Gama set sail with 15 ships and 800 men from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded on this date in 1909.
Also today in 1947, The largest observed iron meteorite until that time created an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
It was 64 years ago today that The Soviet Union launched Venera 1 towards Venus.
Construction on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri began on this date in 1963.
It was also this date in 2001 that NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touched down in the “saddle” region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
French chemist and academic, Bernard Courtois, born on this date in 1777.
Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist was born on that same date in 1785.
Carl Reichenbach, the German chemist and philosopher was born 237 years ago today.
Born February 12, 1804, German-Italian physicist and academic Heinrich Lenz.
English geologist and theorist, Charles Darwin, born on this date in 1809.
Louis Renault, the French engineer and businessman, co-founded Renault was born 148 years ago today.
Lincoln LaPaz, American astronomer and academic was born on that same date in 1897.
French mathematician and philosopher, Jacques Herbrand was born 117 years ago today.
Born February 12, 1914, German-Canadian mathematician Hanna Neumann.
Lorne Greene, the Canadian-American actor was born 110 years ago today.
Ivan Anikeyev, Soviet cosmonaut was born on that same date in 1933.
Also turning 77 today is American computer scientist and engineer Ray Kurzweil.
American cryptographer and programmer, Phil Zimmermann is 71 today.
Also turning 57 today is American actor Josh Brolin.
Listener Birthdays
14 – Douglas E. Welch of Career Opportunities Podcast
14 – Andrew from Illinois
15 – Philip from Australia
17 – Bob Trate of MegaPodTastic and Action Figure Junkies
18 – Hot John Miller of MegaPodTastic
18 – Ray Insalaco – Central Village, CT
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 12, 2025
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News
Mysterious square structure spotted on Mars branded ‘wild’ has space fanatics completely baffled – Science – LADbible
Bonobos recognize when humans are ignorant, try to help – Ars Technica
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This is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 322 days remaining in 2025.
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And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 12, 2025
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