February 12<\/p>\n
1502 \u2013 Queen Isabella I of Spain issues an edict outlawing Islam, forcing virtually all her moslem subjects to convert to Christianity.<\/p>\n
1541 \u2013 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.<\/p>\n
1733 \u2013\u00a0 Englishman James Oglethorpe settling at Savannah, founds Georgia, the 13th American colony<\/p>\n
1825 \u2013 Under terms of the Treaty of Indian Springs, the Creek nation cedes the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States.<\/p>\n
1832 \u2013 Ecuador annexes the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands.<\/p>\n
1855 \u2013 Michigan State University is established at East Lansing.<\/p>\n
1901 \u2013 The state of Delaware finally ratifies the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments<\/p>\n
1915 \u2013 In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.<\/p>\n
1935 \u2013 USS Macon<\/em>, one of the two largest helium filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks, resulting in the death of 2 crewmembers, 1 jumping from the ship too high to survive the impact with the water and the 2nd drowning while attempting to salvage gear.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 Construction begins in St. Louis, on the Gateway Arch of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. 1974 \u2013 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is exiled from the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013 The U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown <\/em>is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy, <\/em>off Crimea, <\/em>claimed to be in Soviet territorial waters, while Yorktown<\/em> claimed innocent passage.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 The U.S. NEAR Shoemaker<\/em> spacecraft touches down in the “saddle” region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 Colgan Air Flight 3407, a Bombardier Dash-8 Q400, crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York, while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all 49 passengers and crew on board and 1 person on the ground.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since the ‘Great Schism’ in 1054.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 12 1502 \u2013 Queen Isabella I of Spain issues an edict outlawing Islam, forcing virtually all her moslem subjects to convert to Christianity. 1541 \u2013 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia. 1733 \u2013\u00a0 Englishman James Oglethorpe settling at Savannah, founds Georgia, the 13th American colony 1825 \u2013 Under terms of the Treaty … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64728"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90003,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64728\/revisions\/90003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNorthwest Orient Airlines Flight 705, a Boeing 720, crashes into the Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing all 45 passengers and crew on board.<\/p>\n