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Events

• 1404 (622 years ago) The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sofia performs the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
• 1502 (524 years ago) Vasco da Gama sets sail with 15 ships and 800 men from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India.
• 1541 (485 years ago) Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
• 1817 (209 years ago) An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops at the Battle of Chacabuco.
• 1832 (194 years ago) Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
• 1946 (80 years ago) World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
• 2002 (24 years ago) The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the 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.
• 2019 (7 years ago) The country known as the Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia in accordance with the Prespa agreement, settling a long-standing naming dispute with Greece.

Births

• 1768 (258 years ago) Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1835)
• 1809 (217 years ago) Abraham Lincoln, American lawyer and statesman, 16th President of the United States (died 1865)
• 1809 (217 years ago) Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist, biologist and theorist (died 1882)
• 1861 (165 years ago) Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (died 1937)
• 1881 (145 years ago) Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina and actress (died 1931)
• 1918 (108 years ago) Julian Schwinger, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
• 1942 (84 years ago) Ehud Barak, Israeli general and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Israel
• 1980 (46 years ago) Christina Ricci, American actress and producer

Deaths

• 1554 (472 years ago) Lady Jane Grey, de facto monarch of England and Ireland for nine days (born 1537; executed)
• 1763 (263 years ago) Pierre de Marivaux, French author and playwright (born 1688)
• 1804 (222 years ago) Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (born 1724)
• 1834 (192 years ago) Friedrich Schleiermacher, German philosopher and scholar (born 1768)
• 1916 (110 years ago) Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, philosopher, and academic (born 1831)
• 1979 (47 years ago) Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1894)
• 1984 (42 years ago) Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and poet (born 1914)
• 2019 (7 years ago) Gordon Banks, English footballer (born 1937)

All 361 events, births and deaths of February 12