What happend on 12th February

11.02
13.02
2005

Former Vermont governor and presidential candidate Howard Dean becomes chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

2004

Mattel Inc. announces the split of Barbara Millicent Roberts and Ken Carson after 43 years of dating.

2004

Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, California, on National Freedom to Marry Day, ordered his county clerk to revise marriage licenses to allow gay and lesbian couples to legally wed.

2002

An Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran, killing 119

2002

Nuclear waste: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear repository.

2002

The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

2001

NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

2001

Google obtains Usenet, creating Google Groups ([http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease48.html press release)

1999

President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.

1998

The presidential line-item veto is declared unconstitutional by United States federal judge.