Historical Events for 12th February 2023

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1130 - Pope Innocent II elected
1577 - Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict"
1908 - Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
1912 - China adopts the Gregorian calendar
1941 - First injection of penicillin into a patient by British physician Charles Fletcher at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England
1947 - Daytime fireball and meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
1959 - The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design
1994 - Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose
2001 - "Ain't Nothing 'bout You" single released by Brooks and Dunn
2017 - North Korea conducts a solid fuel ballistic missile test from Banghyon air base

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