Portal:United States/Anniversaries/February/February 12

1809 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, is born three miles south of Hodgenville, Kentucky.
1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial (pictured) is put into place.
1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
1999 – President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2004 – The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.

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Events

1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
1855 – Michigan State University is established.
1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1976 – Actor Sal Mineo is stabbed to death in West Hollywood.
1999 – President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.