Editing February 12 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1909]] &ndash; The [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]] (NAACP) is founded.
*  1909   &ndash; New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the {{SS|Penguin}}, an inter-island [[ferry]], sinks and explodes at the entrance to [[Wellington Harbour]].
*[[1912]] &ndash; The [[Puyi|Xuantong Emperor]], the last [[Emperor of China]], [[abdication|abdicates]].
*[[1919]] &ndash; The [[Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents#Second Congress (February 1919)|Second Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents]] is held by the [[Makhnovshchina]] at [[Huliaipole]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Colin|last=Darch|title=Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917–21|year=2020|location=[[London]]|publisher=[[Pluto Press]]|isbn=978-0745338880|oclc=1225942343|page=43}}</ref>
*[[1921]] &ndash; [[Bolsheviks]] launch a revolt in [[Democratic Republic of Georgia|Georgia]] as a preliminary to the [[Red Army invasion of Georgia]]. 
*[[1935]] &ndash; {{USS|Macon|ZRS-5|6}}, one of the two largest [[helium]]-filled [[airship]]s ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of [[California]] and sinks.
*[[1945]] &ndash; A [[Tornado outbreak of February 12, 1945|devastating tornado outbreak]] in [[Mississippi]] and [[Alabama]] kills 45 people and injures 427 others.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Grazulis |first1=Thomas P. |title=Significant tornadoes, 1680–1991: A Chronology and Analysis of Events |date=1993 |publisher=Environmental Films |location=St. Johnsbury, Vermont |isbn=1-879362-03-1 |pages=922–925}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=F. C. Pate (United States Weather Bureau) |title=The Tornado at Montgomery, Alabama, February 12, 1945 |journal=Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |date=October 1946 |volume=27 |issue=8 |pages=462–464 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26257954 |access-date=27 May 2023 |publisher=American Meteorological Society|jstor=26257954 }}</ref>
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Operation Deadlight]] ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured [[U-boat]]s.
*  1946   &ndash; [[African Americans|African American]] [[United States Army]] veteran [[Isaac Woodard]] is severely beaten by a [[South Carolina]] police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the [[civil rights movement]] and partially inspires [[Orson Welles]]' film ''[[Touch of Evil]]''.
*[[1947]] &ndash; The [[Sikhote-Alin meteorite|largest observed iron meteorite]] until that time creates an [[impact crater]] in [[Sikhote-Alin]], in the [[Soviet Union]].
*  1947   &ndash; [[Christian Dior]] unveils a "[[Christian Dior SE#"New Look"|New Look]]", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
*[[1961]] &ndash; The Soviet Union launches ''[[Venera 1]]'' towards [[Venus]].
*[[1963]] &ndash; Construction begins on the [[Gateway Arch]] in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]].
*1963   &ndash; [[Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705]] crashes into the [[Everglades]] shortly after takeoff from [[Miami International Airport]], killing all 45 people on board.<ref name="ASN">{{cite web |title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 720-051B N724US Everglades, FL |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19630212-0 |access-date=24 March 2022 |website=aviation-safety.net |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
*1966 &ndash; [[Murder of Morris Adler|Rabbi Morris Adler]] is fatally shot by a disgruntled congregant at [[Congregation Shaarey Zedek]] in [[Southfield, Michigan]], United States.<ref>{{Cite book |last=LoCicero |first=T. V. |title=Murder in the synagogue |date=1970 |publisher=Prentice-Hall |isbn=978-0-13-606590-6 |location=Englewood Cliffs, N.J}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bolkosky |first=Sidney M. |title=Harmony & dissonance: voices of Jewish identity in Detroit, 1914-1967 |date=1991 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn=978-0-8143-1933-8 |location=Detroit}}</ref>
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Malcolm X]] visits [[Smethwick]] near Birmingham following the racially-charged [[1964 United Kingdom general election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-31417235|title=Malcolm X's visit to Smethwick remembered in pictures|date=12 February 2015|website=BBC News|access-date=11 February 2020}}</ref>
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre]].
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1970]], is exiled from the Soviet Union.
*[[1983]] &ndash; One hundred women protest in [[Lahore]], Pakistan against military dictator [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia-ul-Haq]]'s proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: The [[1988 Black Sea bumping incident]]: The U.S. missile cruiser {{USS|Yorktown|CG-48}} is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate ''[[Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk|Bezzavetnyy]]'' in the Soviet [[territorial waters]], while ''Yorktown'' claims [[innocent passage]].
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Carmen Lawrence]] becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes [[Premier of Western Australia]].
*[[1992]] &ndash; The current [[Constitution of Mongolia]] comes into effect.
*[[1993]] &ndash; Two-year-old [[Murder of James Bulger|James Bulger]] is abducted from [[New Strand Shopping Centre]] by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.
*[[1994]] &ndash; Four thieves break into the [[National Gallery of Norway]] and steal [[Edvard Munch]]'s iconic painting ''[[The Scream]]''.
*[[1999]] &ndash; United States President [[Bill Clinton]] is acquitted by the [[United States Senate]] in his [[Impeachment of Bill Clinton|impeachment]] trial.
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[NEAR Shoemaker]] spacecraft touches down in the "[[Col|saddle]]" region of [[433 Eros]], becoming the first spacecraft to land on an [[asteroid]].
*[[2002]] &ndash; The [[trial of Slobodan Milošević]], the former President of the [[Serbia and Montenegro|Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]], begins at the [[United Nations]] [[International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia]] in [[The Hague]], Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
*  2002   &ndash; An [[Iran Airtour]] [[Tupolev Tu-154]] [[Iran Air Tours Flight 956|crashes]] in the mountains outside [[Khorramabad]], Iran while descending for a landing at [[Khorramabad Airport]], killing 119.
*[[2004]] &ndash; The city of [[San Francisco]] begins issuing [[San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings|marriage licenses]] to same-sex couples in response to a directive from [[Mayor of San Francisco|Mayor]] [[Gavin Newsom]].
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[Colgan Air Flight 3407]] crashes into a house in [[Clarence Center, New York]] while on approach to [[Buffalo Niagara International Airport]], killing all on board and one on the ground.
*[[2016]] &ndash; [[Pope Francis]] and [[Patriarch Kirill]] sign an [[Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill|Ecumenical Declaration]] in the first such meeting between leaders of the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] and [[Russian Orthodox Church]]es since their [[East–West Schism|split in 1054]].
*[[2019]] &ndash; The country known as the Republic of Macedonia renames itself the [[Republic of North Macedonia]] in accordance with the [[Prespa agreement]], settling [[Macedonia naming dispute|a long-standing naming dispute]] with [[Greece]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vlada.mk/node/16763?ln=en-gb|title=Announcement of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia for entry into force of the Final Agreement, Constitutional Amendments and Constitutional Law for Implementation of Amendments|date=2019-02-12|website=Влада на Република Северна Македонија|language=mk|access-date=2019-02-14}}</ref>