February 12th, 2021

Let us have a little bit of fun today and post about what happened on Feb.12th through history, who celebrates a birthday with you, and couple other categories. 

It's National:
Chinese New Year

Today in History:
1949- Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey
1970- Anthony Shaffer's "Sleuth" premieres in NYC
1994- "The Scream" by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1893 pastel version) is stolen in Oslo
2001- NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2006- A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington, D.C. up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.
2019- Nasa data shows the world has got greener - 5% more leafier since early 2000s, mostly due to tree planting in China, intensive farming in India
2019- Rare Black panthers spotted for the first time in nearly 100 years in Laikipia County, Kenya
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Celebrities Birthdays:
Lorne Greene [Lyon Chaim Green], Canadian actor
Michael Ironside, Canadian actor
Tara Strong, Canadian-American voice actress
Natasha St-Pier, Canadian pop singer
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
Charles Darwin, English naturalist
 
Movies Released on this day:
1914- The Squaw Man
 
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