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Historical events & facts — February 12
What happened on February 12?
On February 12, 1809, naturalist Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England — author of "On the Origin of Species" (1859), the work that established the theory of evolution by natural selection and transformed biology and humanity's understanding of life forever. Curiously, that same day and year Abraham Lincoln was born in a Kentucky log cabin.
On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky — the sixteenth US President who abolished slavery and preserved the Union during the American Civil War. Self-educated, a lawyer and extraordinary orator, Lincoln is considered the greatest president in American history. He was assassinated in 1865 at age 56.
On February 12, 2001, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker probe became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid, touching down gently on Eros after orbiting the asteroid for a year. The mission provided unique data on the composition and geology of asteroids and paved the way for future exploration and planetary defence missions.
Notable birthdays — February 12
Famous people born on February 12
AD 41
The 40s decade ran from January 1, AD 40, to December 31, AD 49. Claudius became Roman Emperor in 41, following the assassination of Caligula. In 43, he sent Aulus Plautius with four legions to Britain (Britannia), initiating the decades-long Roman conquest of Britain.
Johan Laidoner
Johan Laidoner was an Estonian general and statesman. He served as Commander‑in‑Chief of the Estonian Armed Forces during the Estonian War of Independence and was among the most influential people in the Estonian politics between the world wars.
Chick Hafey
Charles James "Chick" Hafey was an American player in Major League Baseball (MLB). Playing for the St. Louis Cardinals (1924–1931) and Cincinnati Reds, Hafey was a strong line-drive hitter who batted for a high average on a consistent basis.
Julian Schwinger
Julian Seymour Schwinger was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles". He developed a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and renormalized QED to one loop order.
Julian Simon
Julian Lincoln Simon was an American economist. He was a professor of economics and business administration at the University of Illinois from 1963 to 1983 before later moving to the University of Maryland, where he taught for the remainder of his academic career.
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