On this day …
February 12, 2015
- In 1554, Lady Jane Grey was beheaded a year after claiming the throne of England for nine days.
- In 1733, Englishman James Oglethorpe founded Georgia, the last of the 13 Colonies.
- In 1771, Gustav III became King of Sweden.
- In 1855, Michigan State University was established.
- In 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded.
- In 1914, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial was put into place.
- In 1924, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue premiered in New York City, with Gershwin playing the piano.
- In 1963, construction began on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
- In 1994, four men broke into the National Gallery of Norway and stole Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream.
- In 1999, President Bill Clinton was acquitted by the U.S. Senate in his impeachment trial.
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