Today is Thursday, February 12, the 43rd day of 2009. There are 322 days left in the year.
1502 _ Granada Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism
1528 _ Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor and ecclesiastical power
1912 _ Last Ch'ing (Manchuria) emperor of China, Henry Pu-i, abdicates
1921 _ Winston Churchill becomes British Minister of Colonies
1924 _ George Gershwin's ``Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Carnegie Hall in New York City
1950 _ Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
1955 _ President Eisenhower sends first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam
1955 _ Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan
1991 _ North and South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition
1998 _ Intel unveils its first graphics chip i740