February 12

On This Day In History
	1818: Chile's independence from Spain declared Although the decisive victory over the Spanish did not come until April at the Battle of Maipú, Chile formally declared independence from Spain on this day in 1818, the first anniversary of Chile's victory at Chacabuco
Chile
Biography Of The Day
	Abraham Lincoln Born this day in 1809, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president (1861–65), preserved the Union during the American Civil War, brought about the emancipation of slaves, and was an eloquent spokesman for democracy.
Abraham Lincoln, painting by John Wesley Jarvis, 1861
More Events On This Day In History
2002	2002 Slobodan Miloševic, president of Yugoslavia in 1997–2000, went on trial for war crimes in The Hague, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
	1994 Thieves broke into the National Gallery in Oslo and stole The Scream (later recovered), one of several versions Norwegian artist Edvard Munch made of his most famous painting.
1953	1953 The Egyptian government signed an agreement with Britain granting self-government for the Sudan and self-determination within three years for the Sudanese.
1912	1912 Puyi, the last emperor of China, abdicated at the end of the Chinese Revolution.
	1804 German philosopher Immanuel Kant died in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia).
	1554 At age 16, Lady Jane Grey, titular queen of England, was executed in London by order of Mary I.