What happend on 12th February

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13.02
1994

1994 Winter Olympics open in Lillehammer, Norway.

1987

John VIII becomes Pope

1973

Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.

1973

Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in SI units on signs.

1951

Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari marries the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi at Golestan Palace in Teheran at age of 17.

1946

Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.

1938

Anschluss: German troops enter Austria.

1934

The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.

1934

Austrian Civil War begins

1924

Premiere of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Paul Whiteman's Palais Royal Orchestra in Aeolian Hall in New York City