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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Private Life Of Don Juan 1934 Douglas Fairbanks DVD, Download, USB
Today, February 12, 2026

February 12: Hug Day: -- Celebrated on the sixth day of Valentine's Week, the day is a testament to how hard it is to deny the power a simple hug can have over our moods and general well-being. It's amazing how such a simple gesture can just melt your troubles away. You hug someone to celebrate their highest of highs and to soothe them during their lowest of lows. Hugs help lower stress, increase mutual trust, and lower blood pressure, among so many other benefits. Hug a person you love today - it's free! Approximately 450 years ago, the term 'hug' was first recorded in Old Norse. It's believed to have sprung from the verb 'hugga,' which meant 'to comfort.' It's, on the other hand, unclear how the actual practice of hugging started. As far as we know, it has only been for the past 50 years or so that public hugging has been seen as socially appropriate, differentiated from other shows of affection such as kissing. When greeting friends and relatives, saying farewell or congratulating someone, we usually give an embrace. To console someone or to express sympathy, we hug. We hug to wish someone good luck, and we hug as a general expression of affection between intimate partners. According to historical records, hugging and handshaking were first used in warfare to communicate to your adversary that you didn't intend to harm them, showing that you had no visible weapons in your hands or on your body. To demonstrate that they came only equipped with words, presidential candidates partly hug and hold each other's arms during a debate. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-private-life-of-don-juan-dvd-douglas-fairbanks-merle-oberon.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1809: Darwin Day: -- #BOTD: #HBD! Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist, biologist and author (d. April 19, 1882) is #born Charles Robert Darwin in Shrewsbury, England. Charles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZS was best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s, the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life. Darwin's early interest in nature led him to neglect his medical education at the University of Edinburgh; instead, he helped to investigate marine invertebrates. Studies at the University of Cambridge (Christ's College) encouraged his passion for natural science. His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author. Puzzled by the geographical distribution of wildlife and fossils he collected on the voyage, Darwin began detailed investigations, and in 1838 conceived his theory of natural selection. Although he discussed his ideas with several naturalists, he needed time for extensive research and his geological work had priority. He was writing up his theory in 1858 when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay that described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication of both of their theories. Darwin's work established evolutionary descent with modification as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. In 1871 he examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872). His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Actions of Worms (1881), he examined earthworms and their effect on soil. Darwin has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history, and he was honoured by burial in Westminster Abbey. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/charles-darwin-the-devil39s-chaplain-theory-of-evolution-sa39.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1909: NAACP Day: -- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded by African Americans W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimke and Mary Church Terrell, and American whites Henry Moskowitz, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling, Florence Kelley, Oswald Garrison Villard and Charles Edward Russell,. It was formed in the aftermath of the The Race Riot Of 1908 in Springfield, Illinois, the state capital and Abraham Lincoln's hometown, a catalytic event that demonstrated the urgent need for an effective civil rights organization in the U.S. In the decades around the turn of the century, the rate of lynchings of blacks, particularly men, was at an all-time high. Mary White Ovington, journalist William English Walling and Henry Moskowitz met in New York City in January 1909 to work on organizing for black civil rights. They sent out solicitations for support to more than 60 prominent Americans, and set a meeting date for February 12, 1909. This was intended to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the birth of President Abraham Lincoln, who emancipated enslaved African Americans. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells. Leaders of the organization included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins. Its mission in the 21st century is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination". National NAACP initiatives include political lobbying, publicity efforts and litigation strategies developed by its legal team. The group enlarged its mission in the late 20th century by considering issues such as police misconduct, the status of black foreign refugees and questions of economic development. Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people, referring to those with some African ancestry. The NAACP bestows annual awards on African Americans in three categories: Image Awards are for achievement in the arts and media, Theatre Awards are for achievements in theatre and stage, and Spingarn Medals are for outstanding achievement of any kind. Its headquarters is in Baltimore, Maryland. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/black-civil-rights-films-africanamerican-history-dvd.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1809: #BOTD: #HBD! Abraham Lincoln, American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th U.S. President (d. April 15, 1865) is #born in Hodgenville, Hardin County, Kentucky. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War, its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, paved the way for the abolition of slavery, strengthened the federal government, modernized the economy and established the Thanksgiving holiday. Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, in which he served for eight years. Elected to the United States House Of Representatives in 1846, Lincoln promoted rapid modernization of the economy and opposed the Mexican-American War. After a single term, he returned to Illinois and resumed his successful law practice. Reentering politics in 1854, he became a leader in building the new Republican Party, which had a statewide majority in Illinois. As part of the 1858 campaign for US Senator from Illinois, Lincoln took part in a series of highly publicized debates with his opponent and rival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas; Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of slavery, but lost the race to Douglas. In 1860, Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a swing state, though most delegates originally favored other candidates. Though he gained very little support in the slaveholding states of the South, he swept the North and was elected president in 1860. Though there were attempts to bridge the differences between North and South, ultimately Lincoln's victory prompted seven southern slave states to secede from the United States and form the Confederate States of America before he moved into the White House. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter inspired the North to rally behind the Union. His Gettysburg Address became an iconic endorsement of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy. He suspended habeas corpus, leading to the controversial ex parte Merryman decision, and he averted potential British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair. Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of generals, including his most successful general, Ulysses S. Grant. He made major decisions on Union war strategy, including a naval blockade that shut down the South's trade. As the war progressed, his complex moves toward ending slavery included the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863; Lincoln used the U.S. Army to protect escaped slaves, encouraged the border states to outlaw slavery, and pushed through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which permanently outlawed slavery. An astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, Lincoln reached out to the War Democrats and managed his own re-election campaign in the 1864 presidential election. Anticipating the war's conclusion, Lincoln pushed a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness. On April 14, 1865, five days after the surrender of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, Lincoln was shot in the evening by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. and died at 7:22 a.m the following morning. Vice President Andrew Johnson, becomes President upon Lincoln' death. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died in the Petersen House opposite the theater. He was the first American president to be assassinated; his funeral and burial marked an extended period of national mourning. Occurring near the end of the American Civil War, the assassination was part of a larger conspiracy which included Lewis Powell, David E. Herold, Michael O'Laughlen, Mary E. Surratt, John Surratt, Edman Spangler, Samuel Arnold and George A. Atzerodt, and was intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the United States government. Conspirators Lewis Powell and David Herold were assigned to kill Secretary Of State William H. Seward, and George Atzerodt was tasked with killing Vice President Andrew Johnson. Beyond Lincoln's death the plot failed: Seward was only wounded and Johnson's would-be attacker lost his nerve. After a dramatic initial escape, Booth was killed at the climax of a 12-day manhunt, and several other conspirators were later hanged. Lincoln 's death triggered a funeral extravaganza, one the country had never seen before. After a service and procession down Pennsylvania Avenue, Lincoln's embalmed body, along with that of his son Willie (disinterred from a Washington., D.C. cemetery) was placed aboard a Funeral Train for the trip home to Springfield, Illinois. Sixteen days later, with arrival in Springfield, the odyssey came to an end. At Oak Ridge Cemetery, the remains of Willie and the President were placed in a temporary vault. His son Eddie was disinterred later from nearby Hutchinson's Cemetery and also placed in the temporary chamber. The final resting place of Abraham Lincoln is The Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery; his wife Mary Todd Lincoln; and three of their four sons -- Edward, William, and Thomas -- are all interred there. There are numerous memorials, namesake places, portraits on money, and artifacts of President Lincoln. On February 12, 1914, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial was put into place. The family tree has gone extinct; the last heir, his great-grandson, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died on Christmas Eve in 1985. Any direct descendant could have inherited Beckwith's fortune, estimated at 3M USD. It has since been given to charity. Lincoln has been consistently ranked both by scholars and the public as among the greatest U.S. presidents. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/abraham-lincoln-documentaries-dvd.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1879: #BOTD: #HBD! Simon Rodia, Italian-American artist who appears on the iconic cover of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club album by The Beatles (top right corner, to the left of and behind Bob Dylan), creator of the Watts Towers, or, as he called them, Nuestro Pueblo (Our Town, in Spanish), a Los Angeles landmark (d. July 17, 1965) is #born Sabato Rodia in Serino, Italy, where he was raised. In 1895, aged fifteen, he emigrated to the United States with his brother. Rodia lived in Pennsylvania until his brother died in a mining incident. He then moved to Seattle, Washington, where he married Lucia Ucci in 1902. They soon moved to Oakland, where Rodia's three children were born. Following his divorce around 1909, he moved to Long Beach and worked at odd jobs before finally settling in Watts in 1920. Rodia began constructing the Watts Towers in 1921. There has been some question as to what Rodia was called during his lifetime; some sources have cited that his birth name was "Sabatino" and it is disputed as to if he was called "Simon" during his lifetime. It is widely known and accepted that he was referred to as "Sam" by close friends. He appears as Samuel Rodia (and still living in Oakland) in the 1910 U.S. Census, but by the time of the 1920 U.S. Census, he had already become Sam Rodia. His surname has also been misspelled as "Rodella" or "Rodilla". Simon Rodio died at the age of 90 in Martinez, California. The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or Nuestro Pueblo ("our town" in Spanish) are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the artist's original residential property at 1765 East 107th Street in Watts, Los Angeles. The entire site of towers, structures, sculptures, pavement and walls were designed and built solely by Sabato ("Simon" or "Sam") Rodia (1879 or 1886 to 1965), an Italian immigrant construction worker and tile mason, over a period of 33 years from 1921 to 1954. The tallest of the towers is 99.5 feet (30.3 m). The work is an example of outsider art (or Art Brut) and Italian-American naive art. The Watts Towers were designated a National Historic Landmark and a California Historical Landmark in 1990. They are also a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, and one of nine folk art sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles. The Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park encompasses the Watts Towers site. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/alternative-sgt-pepper39s-lonely-hearts-club-band-mp3-cd-download-393.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1877: #BOTD: #HBD! Louis Renault, French engineer, businessman, industrialist, automobile industry pioneer and inventor, armoured fighting vehicle (tank specifically) pioneer, co-founder of the automobile manufacturer Renault (d. October 24, 1944) is #born in Paris, France, the fourth of six children born into the bourgeois Parisian family of Alfred and Berthe Renault. Louis Renault attended Lycee Condorcet, (French: "Condorcet High School") a prestigous secondary school in Paris, France. He was fascinated by engineering and mechanics from an early age and spent hours in the Serpollet steam car workshop or tinkering with old Panhard engines in the tool shed of the family's second home in Billancourt, France. He built his first car in 1898, hiring a pair of workmen to modify a used 3/4 hp (560 W) De Dion-Bouton cycle which featured a revolutionary universally jointed driveshaft and a three-speed gearbox with reverse, with the third gear in direct drive (which he patented a year later). Renault called his car the Voiturette (French: "Golf Cart"). On Christmas Eve 1898, he won a bet with his friends that his invention with an innovative crankshaft could beat a car with a bicycle-like chain drive up the slope of Rue Lepic in Montmartre, Paris. As well as winning the bet, Renault received 13 definite orders for the vehicle. Seeing the commercial potential, he teamed up with his two older brothers, Marcel and Fernand, who had business experience from working in their father's button and textiles firm. They formed the Renault Freres company on February 25, 1899. Initially, business and administration was handled entirely by the elder brothers, with Louis dedicating himself to design and manufacturing. Marcel was killed in the 1903 Paris-Madrid motor race, and in 1908, Louis Renault took overall control of the company after Fernand retired for health reasons and subsequently died in 1909. Louis Renault then went on to build one of world's largest automobile manufacturing concerns, one which still bears his name. During World War I his factories contributed massively to the war effort, notably so by the creation and manufacture of the first tank of modern configuration, the legendary Renault FT tank, which he had personally designed with Rodolphe Ernst-Metzmaier.At the start of the First World War, in August 1914, in response to the then acute shortage of artillery ammunition, Renault suggested that car factories such as Renault could manufacture 75mm shells using hydraulic presses rather than with the usual longer and costlier lathe operations. Identical methods were also used by Andre Citroen in his own factory. The resulting shells helped overcome the shortages, but as they had to be manufactured in two pieces they were inherently weak at the base thus sometimes letting hot gases detonate the melinite inside the shell. Over 600 French 75mm guns were destroyed by premature explosions in 1915, and their crews killed or injured. Louis Renault was decorated with The Grand Cross Of The Legion D'Honneur after the war for the major contribution of his factories to the war effort. His factories' mass production in 1918 of the revolutionary and highly effective Renault FT tank was perhaps Renault's most significant contribution during that period. On September 26, 1918, with the First World War coming to a close, Renault, then aged 40, married the 21-year-old Christiane Boullaire (1897-1979), sister of French painter Jacques Boullaire. They had a son, Jean-Louis (January 24, 1920 - 1982). They kept homes at 90 Avenue Foch (formerly Avenue du Bois-de-Boulogne) in Paris and a country estate near Saint-Pierre-du-Vauvray, Rouen, in the department of Eure, called the Chateau De La Batellerie A Herqueville, or simply Chateau Herqueville. The Chateau fronted more than 3 km of the Seine, the entire grounds comprising 4,000 hectares. At Renault's request and expense, the small town hall of Herqueville was moved to accomdate him. Renault's personnel entered the residence via a tunnel. During the interwar period, his right-wing opinions became well known, leading to various cases of labour unrest with proletarian avant-garde workers at the Boulogne Billancourt plant. He pleaded for a necessary union between European nations. Louis Renault competed fiercely with Citroen, whom he insulted by nicknaming him "Le Petit Juif" (French: "The Little Jew"). Growing increasingly paranoid and reclusive at the same time, and deeply concerned about the rising power of Communism and labor unions, Renault eventually retreated to his country estate, a castle on the river Seine near Rouen. Renault remained in complete control of his company until 1942, dealing with its rapid expansion while designing several new inventions, most of which are still in use today, such as hydraulic shock absorbers, the modern drum brake and compressed gas ignition. In 1938, Renault visited Adolf Hitler and, by 1939, he had become an important supplier for the French army. When Hitler's Wehrmacht invaded France in 1940, Renault was in the U.S., having been sent by his government to ask for tanks. He returned to find the Franco-German armistice in place. Renault was faced with the choice of cooperating with the Germans and possibly forestalling them from moving his factory and equipment to Germany, which would lead to an accusation of collaboration with the enemy. He put his factories at the service of Vichy France, which meant that he was also assisting the Nazis. Over a period of four years, Renault manufactured 34,232 vehicles for the Germans. He argued that "by continuing operations he had saved thousands of workers from being transported to Germany", but, in 1942, Life described him as a "notorious Paris collaborationist". During the occupation of France the company was under the control of the Germans, with people from Daimler-Benz in key positions. Renault himself became unpopular among members of the French resistance. The Renault factories on Ile Seguin in Billancourt had become top priority targets for the bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and were ultimately severely damaged on March 3, 1942. Renault's health issues worsened, including his severely diminished renal function and, in late 1942, he suffered aphasia, and became unable to speak or write. Three weeks after France was liberated in 1944, Renault surrendered "on condition that he would not be jailed until indicted". He was arrested outside Paris on September 22, 1944, on charges of industrial collaboration with Nazi Germany. At the time of his arrest, Renault "denied that his firm had received 120M USD from the Germans for war materials, said that he had kept his huge, much-bombed plant going at the request of Vichy to keep its materials and equipment out of Nazi hands and to save workers from deportation." He was incarcerated in Paris's Fresnes Prison, being already seriously ill at the time. The records for the exact period of his incarceration at Fresnes would later turn out to be missing. Renault was moved on October 5 to a psychiatric hospital at Ville-Evrard in Neuilly-Sur-Marne. When Renault's health quickly declined on October 9, 1944 he was again moved to a private nursing home at the clinic Saint-Jean-de-Dieu in the Rue Oudinot, Paris at the request of his family and supporters, having gone into a coma. He died four weeks after his incarceration, still awaiting trial and having claimed to have been mistreated in Fresnes Prison, with his 1918 French Legion Of Honor, for exceptional contribution to the victory of the First World War, having been expunged by the Vichy regime. No autopsy was performed and the exact cause of Renault's death remains unclear. An official report at the time gave the cause of death as uremia. Later, in 1956, his wife claimed that Renault died from beatings and torture at the hands of prison guards. Louis Renault is buried at his country home Chateau Herqueville, in Herqueville Dans L'Eure. In October 1944, the provisional French government seized Louis Renault's company.The Minister of Information, Henri Teitgen, said at the time this was not a confiscation, rather "it was merely a step to get French industry back into production. Later a commission would examine the books, confiscate war profits, bring charges." On January 1, 1945, four months after Louis Renault's death, an order of General Charles de Gaulle's provisional government decreed the dissolution of Societe Anonyme des Usines Renault and its nationalization, giving it the new name Regie Nationale Des Usines Renault (RNUR). Thus, the company Louis Renault had created was nationalized on the official case of collaboration. Renault was charged posthumously with "guilty enrichment obtained by those who worked for the enemy". In 1944, after the expropriation of his company and his subsequent death, Renault's last will and testament was opened to reveal that he had left his company to his 40,000 employees. At the time the company was nationalized, Renault's wife Christiane and her son Jean-Louis owned 95% of the company stock and had received nothing, while the other stockholders were in fact compensated. The director of the plant during the war obtained a judgment in 1949 stating that he and the plant had not collaborated. In 1956, Time magazine described Renault as "rich, powerful and famous, cantankerous, brilliant, often brutal, the little Napoleon of an automaking empire -- vulgar, loud, domineering, impatient, he was a terror to associates, a friend to practically none", adding that to the French working man, Renault became known as "the ogre of Billancourt." By this time, Renault was France's largest nationalized company, employing 51,000 Frenchmen, making 200,000 automobiles and a profit of 11M USD a year. That same year, Renault's widow, Christiane Renault, claimed that Louis Renault was murdered and sought "to establish that Louis Renault was another of the more than 9,000 Frenchmen listed by the government as having been killed by "irregular executions" in the post-Liberation vengeance, and Louis Renault's body was subsequently exhumed for autopsy. Madam Renault cited as evidence "a report showing Renault's urea content to be normal a week before his death, and an X-ray showing a fractured vertebra." In 2005, the London Daily Telegraph reported that "according to eyewitness and family accounts, the previously wiry little 67-year-old had been tortured and beaten," and that "a nun at Fresnes testified that she saw Renault collapse after being hit over the head by a jailer wielding a helmet. An X-ray organised by his family indicated a broken neck vertebra." In 2005, The Daily Telegraph said Renault had "felt that his duty was to preserve France's manufacturing base. Military and Daimler-Benz officials arrived at the gates of his Billancourt factory to assess it for removal into Germany, together with its workforce. Renault fended them off by agreeing to make vehicles for the Wehrmacht." According to Anthony Rhodes's Louis Renault: A Biography, Renault once said of the Germans "It is better to give them the butter, or they'll take the cows." The 2005 Daily Telegraph report said Renault attempted to save his company from displacement and absorption by Daimler-Benz: "But for his efforts, Renault factories and employees would have been shipped to Germany." Subsequent studies have shown that while Renault had collaborated, "he also hived off strategic materials and sabotaged trucks. Dipsticks were marked low, for example, and engines dried and seized in action, an outcome much in evidence on the Russian Front." Suggestions that Renault management had slowed production for German occupiers was countered with the argument that workers rather than management had organized the production slow-downs. A 2005 article in The Daily Telegraph said it could legally be argued that the Renault company, the "jewel in the country's industrial crown" was procured by theft, and that "admission that Louis Renault and his company had received rough justice would raise the question of compensation -- huge compensation." In 2011, Patrick Fridenson, a business history professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the author of a book on Renault said "It's extremely difficult to say to what extent Louis Renault should be considered a collaborator, he ran the risk of complete dispossession if he resisted the Germans." Scholar Monika Ostler Riess, who had studied French and German sources found no evidence that Mr. Renault collaborated any more than his peers. "He just tried to save what he had, what he had built. The alternative to cooperating with the occupiers was to see the Germans take over his company". Robert Paxton suggested in his 1972 book, Vichy France: old guard and new order: 1940-1944, that the Renault factory might have been returned to Louis Renault and his family, had he lived longer. The Berliet truck factory in Lyon remained in Marius Berliet's family possession, despite his having manufactured 2,330 trucks for the Germans. Marius Berliet, who died in 1949, had, however, "stubbornly refused to recognize legal actions against him after the war." On July 29, 1967, Louis-Jean Renault, the only heir, received minor compensation, specifically for non-industrial, personal losses. In 1982, representatives of the Organisation Civile Et Militaire and their counterparts at the company Robert De Longcamps, worked in vain for the rehabilitation of Louis Renault, saying he had been "wrongfully accused of collaboration with the enemy", their requests to Robert Badinter, French Minister Of Justice, unheeded. Renault's were the only factories permanently expropriated by the French government. As of 2005, Renault officials avoid mention of Louis Renault. For the centennial in 1999 of the original Renault Freres company, celebrated by Regie Renault, the company ignored the grandchildren of Louis Renault. Despite the French Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And Of The Citizen Of 1789, which mandates just and preliminary compensation before expropriation, Louis Renault and his heirs were otherwise never officially compensated for their company. Renault returned to the private sector as a Societe Anonyme (S.A) in 1996 when the French government sold 80% of the company. In 2011, his heirs again sought to restore Renault's reputation and receive compensation for what they see, and evidence confirms, as the illegal confiscation of his company by the state. 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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1880: #BOTD: #HBD! John L. Lewis, American miner and organized labor union leader (d. June 11, 1969) is #born John Llewellyn Lewis in or near Cleveland, Lucas County, Iowa (distinct from the present township of Cleveland in Davis County) to Thomas H. Lewis and Ann (Watkins) Lewis, immigrants from Llangurig, Wales. He served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960. A major player in the history of coal mining, he was the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), which established the United Steel Workers of America and helped organize millions of other industrial workers in the 1930s. After resigning as head of the CIO in 1941, he took the Mine Workers out of the CIO in 1942 and in 1944 took the union into the American Federation Of Labor (AFL). A leading liberal, he played a major role in helping Franklin D. Roosevelt win a landslide in 1936, but as an isolationist, broke with Roosevelt in 1940 on FDR's anti-Nazi foreign policy. Lewis was a brutally effective and aggressive fighter and strike leader who gained high wages for his membership while steamrolling over his opponents, including the United States government. Lewis was one of the most controversial and innovative leaders in the history of labor, gaining credit for building the industrial unions of the CIO into a political and economic powerhouse to rival the AFL, yet was widely hated by calling for nationwide coal strikes which critics believed damaging to the American economy and war effort. His massive leonine head, forest-like eyebrows, firmly set jaw, powerful voice and ever-present scowl thrilled his supporters, angered his enemies, and delighted cartoonists. Coal miners for 40 years hailed him as their leader, whom they credited with bringing high wages, pensions and medical benefits. On September 14, 1964, four years after his retirement from the UMWA, Lewis was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson, his citation reading: "[An] eloquent spokesman of labor, [Lewis] has given voice to the aspirations of the industrial workers of the country and led the cause of free trade unions within a healthy system of free enterprise." Lewis retired to his family home, the Lee-Fendall House in Alexandria, Virginia, where he had lived since 1937 until his death aged 89. His passing elicited many kind words and fond remembrances, even from former rivals. "He was my personal friend," wrote Reuben Soderstrom, the President of the Illinois AFL-CIO, who had once lambasted Lewis as an "imaginative windbag," upon news of his death. Lewis, he said, would forever be remembered for "making almost a half million poorly paid and poorly protected coal miners the best paid and best protected miners in all the world." He is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, the same cemetery Abraham Lincoln and his family are buried in. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/john-l-lewis-dvd-united-mine-workers-afl-cio.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1881: #BOTD: #HBD! Anna Pavlova, Russian-English prima ballerina and actress, a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and The Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev, most recognized for creating the role of The Dying Swan and, with her own company, being the first ballerina to tour the world, including South America, India, Mexico and Australia (d. January 23, 1931) is #born Anna Matveyevna Pavlova in the Preobrazhensky Regiment hospital, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire where her father, Matvey Pavlovich Pavlov, served. Anna Pavlovna Pavlova died a half hour past midnight on a Friday of pleurisy in the bedroom next to the Japanese Salon of the Hotel Des Indes in The Hague twenty days short of her 50th birthday, with her ballet impresario husband Victor Dandre, her maid Marguerite Letienne, and her personal physician, Zalewski (Zalewski) at her bedside. While travelling from Paris to The Hague, Pavlova became very ill and more ill upon arrival. Her physician told that she had pneumonia and required an operation -- and that she would never be able to dance again if she went ahead with the operation. She refused to have the surgery, saying, "If I can't dance, then I'd rather be dead."Her last words were, "Get my 'Swan' costume ready." Dandre and Letienne dressed her body in her favorite beige lace dress and placed her in a coffin with a sprig of lilac. At 7 am, a Russian Orthodox priest arrived to say prayers over her body. At 7:30 am, her coffin was taken to the mortuary chapel attaching the Catholic hospital in The Hague. In accordance with old ballet tradition, on the day she was to have next performed, the show went on, as scheduled, with a single spotlight circling an empty stage where Pavlova would have been. Memorial services were held in the Russian Orthodox Church in London. She was cremated and her ashes placed in a columbarium at Golders Green Crematorium And Mausoleum, the first crematorium to be opened in London and one of the oldest crematoria in Britain, where her urn was adorned with her ballet shoes (which have since been stolen). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-ballet-russe-a-la-the-paris-opera-ballet-dvd-serge-diaghilev.html

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February 12, 1893: #BOTD: #HBD! Omar Bradley, American General Of The Army, first chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff, senior officer of the United States Army who oversaw the U.S. military's policy-making in the Korean War, serving on active duty continuously from August 1, 1911, until his death on April 8, 1981 -- a total of 69 years, 8 months and 7 days -- the longest active duty career in the history of the United States Armed Forces, after whom the U.S. Army's Bradley Fighting Vehicle was named (d. April 8, 1981) is #born Omar Nelson Bradley in Randolph County, Missouri. Bradley worked as a boilermaker before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from the academy in 1915 alongside Dwight D. Eisenhower as part of "the class the stars fell on." During World War I, Bradley guarded copper mines in Montana. After the war, Bradley taught at West Point and served in other roles before taking a position at the War Department under General George Marshall. In 1941, Bradley became commander of the United States Army Infantry School. After the U.S. entrance into World War II, Bradley oversaw the transformation of the 82nd Infantry Division into the first American airborne division. He received his first front-line command in Operation Torch, serving under General George S. Patton in North Africa. After Patton was reassigned, Bradley commanded II Corps in the Tunisia Campaign and the Allied invasion of Sicily. He commanded the First United States Army during the Invasion of Normandy. After the breakout from Normandy, he took command of the Twelfth United States Army Group, which ultimately comprised forty-three divisions and 1.3 million men, the largest body of American soldiers ever to serve under a single field commander. After the war, Bradley headed the Veterans Administration. He was appointed as Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1948 and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff in 1949. In 1950, Bradley was promoted to the rank of General of the Army, becoming the last of the nine individuals promoted to five-star rank in the United States Armed Forces. He was the senior military commander at the start of the Korean War, and supported President Harry S. Truman's wartime policy of containment. He was instrumental in persuading Truman to dismiss General Douglas MacArthur in 1951 after MacArthur resisted administration attempts to scale back the war's strategic objectives. Bradley left active duty in 1953 (although remaining on "active retirement" for the next 27 years). Omar Bradley continued to serve in public and business roles until his death in 1981 in New York City at age 88 of a cardiac arrhythmia, a few minutes after receiving an award from the National Institute of Social Sciences. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, next to his two wives. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/ike-the-war-years-complete-tv-miniseries-dual-layer-dvd.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1884: #BOTD: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American author, socialite, superior mutant and beauty, eldest child of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt and his only child with his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (d. February 20, 1980) is #born Alice Lee Roosevelt in the Roosevelt family home at 6 West 57th St. in Manhattan, New York. She led an unconventional and controversial life. Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth III, a Republican Party leader and 38th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was shaky, and her only child, Paulina, was from her affair with Senator William Borah. At 18 years of age she had a pet snake named Emily Spinach who she would wrap around on one arm and take to parties. Alice was extremely independent and unlike many women of her time, she was known to wear pants, drive cars, smoke cigarettes, place bets with bookies, dance on rooftops, and party all night. In a span of 15 months, she managed to attend 300 parties, 350 balls and 407 dinners. A friend of Alice's stepmom once remarked that she was "like a young wild animal that had been put into good clothes." Her stepmom went a step further and described her as a "guttersnipe" that went "uncontrolled with every boy in town." William Howard Taft banned her from the White House after Alice buried a voodoo doll (of Taft's wife) in the front yard. Woodrow Wilson also banned her after she told a very dirty joke (sadly no record of the joke exists) about him in public. Her father, Theodore Roosevelt famously said, "I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both." Alice once told President Lyndon B. Johnson that she specifically wore wide-brimmed hats around him so that he could not kiss her. During an interview in 1974, Alice described herself as a "hedonist." After many years of ill health, Alice died in her Washington, D.C. Embassy Row house on February 20, 1980, eight days after her 96th birthday, of emphysema and pneumonia, with contributory effects of a number of other chronic illnesses. She is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. She is the longest-lived child of a US President. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-indomitable-teddy-roosevelt-george-c-scott-john-philip-sousa-dvd.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! Tex Beneke, American singer, saxophonist, and bandleader, most famous as the lead singer in Glenn Miller's big band (d. May 30, 2000) is #born Gordon Lee Beneke in Fort Worth, Texas. Tex Beneke's career is a history of associations with bandleader Glenn Miller and former musicians and singers who worked with Miller. His band is also associated with the careers of Eydie Gorme, Henry Mancini and Ronnie Deauville. Beneke also solos on the recording the Glenn Miller Orchestra made of their popular song "In The Mood" and sings on another popular Glenn Miller recording, "Chattanooga Choo Choo". Jazz critic Will Friedwald considers Beneke to be one of the major blues singers who sang with the big bands of the early 1940s. Tex Beneke died from respiratory failure at a nursing home in Costa Mesa, California, aged 86. He is buried in Greenwood Memorial Park in his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas. He was survived by his wife, Sandra, of Santa Ana, California. His saxophone is currently used by the Arizona Opry. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/swing-the-best-of-the-big-bands-dvd-complete-tv-series-2-disc2.html

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February 12, 1915: #BOTD: #HBD! Lorne Greene, Canadian radio personality, announcer and newsreader for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) known during World War II as "The Voice Of Canada" and "The Voice Of Doom", soldier, inventor, film narrator, actor, singer and television star (d. September 11, 1987) #born Lyon Himan Green in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. Lorne Hyman Greene's notable television roles include Ben Cartwright on the Western Bonanza and Commander Adama in the original science-fiction television series Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980. He also worked on the Canadian television nature documentary series Lorne Greene's New Wilderness and in television commercials. He was called "Chaim" by his mother, and his name is shown as "Hyman" on his school report cards. Greene was the drama instructor at Camp Arowhon, a summer camp in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada, where he developed his talents. Greene began acting while attending Queen's University in Kingston, where he acquired a knack for broadcasting with the Radio Workshop of the university's Drama Guild on the campus radio station CFRC. He gave up on a career in chemical engineering, and upon graduation, found a job as a radio broadcaster. During World War II, Greene served as a Flying officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Afterward, he was assigned as the principal newsreader on the CBC National News. The CBC gave him the nickname "The Voice of Canada", although his role in delivering distressing war news in sonorous tones with his deep, resonant voice following Canada's entry into World War II in 1939 caused many listeners to call him "The Voice of Doom", instead, particularly since he was delegated the assignment of reading the dreaded list of soldiers killed in the war. During his radio days, Greene invented a stopwatch which ran backwards (i.e. it would start from a given number and count down to zero); this helped radio announcers gauge how much time was left while speaking. During his CBC radio career, Greene also narrated documentary films, such as the National Film Board of Canada's Fighting Norway (1943). Greene left the CBC and became a freelancer after the war when the network ordered staff announcers to turn over a large percentage of any income they earned from film narration. Greene continued to appear on CBC on a freelance basis while becoming the newsreader for private radio station CKEY in Toronto, while also returning to acting work both on stage and in radio plays. After closing his Academy of Radio Arts in 1952, Greene relocated to the United States. Katharine Cornell cast him twice in her Broadway productions. In 1953, he was cast in The Prescott Proposals. In that same year, she cast him in a verse drama by Christopher Fry, The Dark is Light Enough. Greene likewise began appearing in isolated episodes on live television in the 1950s. In 1953, he was seen in the title role of a one-hour adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello. In 1954, he made his Hollywood debut as Saint Peter in The Silver Chalice and made several more films and appearances on American television. In 1955, he starred in the British Canadian TV series Sailor of Fortune. In 1955, he was Ludwig van Beethoven in an episode of the TV version of You Are There, and also appeared as Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Stratford Festival. In 1957, Greene played the prosecutor in Peyton Place. The first of his continuing TV roles was as the patriarch Ben "Pa" Cartwright in Bonanza, the first one-hour Western series filmed in colour (1959-1973), making Greene a household name. He garnered the role after his performance as O'Brien in the CBS production of Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the 1960s, Greene capitalized on his image as Ben Cartwright by recording several albums of country-western/folk songs, which Greene performed in a mixture of spoken word and singing. In 1964, Greene had a number-one single on the music charts with his spoken-word ballad, "Ringo" (which referred to the real-life Old West outlaw Johnny Ringo), and got play time from "Saga of the Ponderosa", which detailed the Cartwright founding of the famous ranch. In 1973, after the cancellation of Bonanza following a 14-year run, Greene joined Ben Murphy in the ABC crime drama, Griff, about a Los Angeles, California, police officer, Wade "Griff" Griffin, who retires to become a private detective. When it failed to gain sufficient ratings and was cancelled after 13 episodes, Greene thereafter hosted the syndicated nature documentary series Last of the Wild from 1974 to 1975. In the 1977 miniseries Roots, he played the first master of Kunta Kinte, John Reynolds. Through the 1970s, Greene was the spokesman for Alpo Beef Chunks dog food commercials, one of the possible origins of the meme phrase "Eating your own dog food". In 2007, TV Guide listed Ben Cartwright as the nation's second-most popular TV father (behind Cliff Huxtable). Greene was also known for his role as Commander Adama, another patriarchal figure, in the science-fiction television series Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979) and Galactica 1980 (1980). Greene's typecasting as a wise father character continued with the 1981 series Code Red as a fire-department chief, whose command includes his children as subordinates. Greene appeared with his former Bonanza co-star Michael Landon on an episode of Highway to Heaven. Greene also appeared with his former Bonanza co-star Pernell Roberts on a two-part episode of Vegas. He appeared in the HBO mockumentary The Canadian Conspiracy, about the supposed subversion of the United States by Canadian-born media personalities. For nearly a decade, Greene co-hosted the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC with Betty White. In the 1980s, Greene devoted his energies to wildlife and environmental issues, including hosting and narrating the CTV's nature series Lorne Greene's New Wilderness, a show which promoted environmental awareness. Greene was married twice, first to Rita Hands of Toronto (1938-1960, divorced). Some reports list the start of their marriage as 1940. They had two children, twins born in 1945: Charles Greene and Belinda Susan Bennett. His second wife was Nancy Deale (1961-1987, Greene's death), with whom he had one child, Gillian Dania Greene, who is married to director Sam Raimi. The Ponderosa II House was built by Greene in 1960 in Mesa, Arizona. It is located at 602 S. Edgewater Drive. It is a replica of the Bonanza set house from the former Ponderosa Ranch in Incline Village, Nevada. It is listed in the Mesa Historic Property Register. Lorne Greene died from complications from pneumonia, following ulcer surgery, in Santa Monica, California, aged 72. He is interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/appointment-with-destiny-showdown-at-ok-corral-dvd.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1924: Premieres: Theatre Premieres: Musical Premieres: -- George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano. Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects. The composition was commissioned by the bandleader Paul Whiteman. It was orchestrated by Ferde Grofe several times, including the original 1924 scoring, the 1926 "theater orchestra" setting, and the 1942 symphony orchestra scoring, though completed earlier. The editors of the Cambridge Music Handbooks opined that "The Rhapsody in Blue (1924) established Gershwin's reputation as a serious composer and has since become one of the most popular of all American concert works." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/george-gershwin-remembered-dvd-1987-tv-documen1987.html

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February 12, 1930: #BOTD: #HBD! Henry Lincoln, British author, television presenter, scriptwriter, and actor (d. February 23, 2022) is #born Henry Soskin in London, England. He co-wrote three Doctor Who multi-part serials in the 1960s, and - starting in the 1970s - inspired three Chronicle BBC Two documentaries on the alleged mysteries surrounding the French village of Rennes-le-Chateau (on which he was writer and presenter) - and, from the 1980s, co-authored and authored a series of books of which The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail was the most popular, becoming the inspiration for Dan Brown's 2003 best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code. Henry Lincoln died in Rennes-les-Bains, near Rennes-le-Chateau, at the age of 92. He was the last living person to have written for Doctor Who in the 1960s. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/seofteseboti.html

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February 12, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! Costa-Gavras, Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France, is #born Konstantinos Gavras in Loutra Iraias, Arcadia, Greece. He is known for films with political and social themes, such as the political thriller Z (1969), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, L'Aveu (The Confession, 1970), which follows the path of Artur London, a Czechoslovakian communist minister falsely arrested and tried for treason and espionage in the Slansky Show Trials, and Missing (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French; however, six of them were made in English. His film Z was the first film, and one of the few, to be nominated for both the Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/z-1969-dvd-yves-montand-irene-papas-jeanlouis-trintig1969.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1935: #DOTD: #RIP: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Aviation Incidents And Accidents: -- The USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks. The USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting and served as a "flying aircraft carrier", designed to carry biplane parasite aircraft, five single-seat Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk for scouting or two-seat Fleet N2Y-1 for training. In service for less than two years, in 1935 the Macon was damaged in a storm and lost off California's Big Sur coast, though most of the crew were saved. The wreckage is listed as the USS Macon Airship Remains on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Less than 20 ft (6.1 m) shorter than Hindenburg, both the Macon and "sister ship" the USS Akron (ZRS-4) were among the largest flying objects in the world in terms of length and volume. Although the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg and the LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II was longer, the two sisters still hold the world record for helium-filled airships. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/lighter-than-air-airships-inflatable-planes-dvd-mp3-us3.html

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February 12, 1939: #BOTD: #HBD! Ray Manzarek, American musician, keyboard player, singer, songwriter, keyboard player, author, director and producer, best known as a member of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, which he co-founded with singer and lyricist Jim Morrison (d. May 20, 2013) is #born Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr. on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, where he was raised. Ray Manzarek was notable for performing on a keyboard bass during many live shows and some recordings, taking on a role usually filled by a bass guitar player. He recorded on every track of all eight Doors studio albums, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. He was a co-founding member of Nite City from 1977 to 1978, and of Manzarek-Krieger from 2001 until his death in 2013. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-doors-the-doors-are-open-live-london-rock-concert-dvd.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1952: #BOTD: #HBD! Michael McDonald, American musician, singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and record producer known for his distinctive, soulful voice and as a member of the bands The Doobie Brothers (1975-1982, 1987, 2019-present) and Steely Dan (1974) is #born into a Catholic Irish American family in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. . McDonald wrote and sang several hit singles with The Doobie Brothers, including "What a Fool Believes", "Minute By Minute", and "Takin' It to the Streets". McDonald has also performed as a prominent backing vocalist on numerous recordings by artists including Steely Dan, Christopher Cross, and Kenny Loggins. He is considered an influential figure in the development of the yacht rock genre. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

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February 12, 1954: The History Of Computer Programming: The History Of Business Computer Programming: -- Lyons' LEO produces a payroll report, the first time in history a computer is used in business. Now known as the LEO I (Lyons Electronic Office I), Lyons' LEO was the first computer used for commercial business applications. The prototype LEO I was modelled closely on the Cambridge EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), an early British computer inspired by pioneer computer scientist John von Neumann's seminal "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC", the machine was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England. EDSAC was the second electronic digital stored-program computer to go into regular service, and was the direct inspiration of the Lyons LEO. LEO's construction was overseen by Oliver Standingford, Raymond Thompson and David Caminer of J. Lyons and Co. LEO I ran its first business application in 1951, three years before it was employed in the business sector. In 1954 Lyons formed LEO Computers Ltd to market LEO I and its successors LEO II and LEO III to other companies. LEO Computers eventually became part of English Electric Company (EEL), (EELM), then English Electric Computers (EEC), where the same team developed the faster LEO 360 and even faster LEO 326 models. It then passed to International Computers Limited (ICL) and ultimately Fujitsu. LEO series computers were still in use until 1981. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-machine-that-changed-the-world-the-computer-dvd-mp4-downloa4.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1961: Rocket Launches: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space Probes: Interplanetary Space Probes: The Soviet Space Program: The Venera Program: Venera 1 (Russian: Venus 1) (Venera-1VA No.2, Sputnik 8): -- Venera 1 is launched at 00:34:36 UTC atop a Molniya 8K78 (R7) rocket from launch site Baikonur 1/5 at Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport in southern Kazakhstan, on a mission to become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus on May 19, 1961. It was discovered that contact had been lost with Venera 1 when a scheduled telemetry session on February 26 failed to occur. Nevertheless, seven days prior Venera 1 provided the first verification that the plasma known as solar wind, which had been discovered by the USSR's Luna 2 space probe, was uniformly present in deep space. On May 19, 1961, Venera 1 passed within 100,000 km (62,000 mi) of Venus, but without sending back any data. With the help of the British radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, some weak signals from Venera 1 may have been detected in June. Soviet engineers believed that Venera 1 failed due to the overheating of a solar-direction sensor. Venera 1 was part of the Soviet Union's Venera Program, a series of space probes developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather information about the planet Venus. Ten probes successfully landed on the surface of the planet, including the two Vega program and Venera-Halley probes, while thirteen probes successfully entered the Venusian atmosphere. Due to the extreme surface conditions on Venus, the probes could only survive for a short period on the surface, with times ranging from 23 minutes to two hours. The Venera program established a number of precedents in space exploration, among them being the first human-made devices to enter the atmosphere of another planet (Venera 3 on March 1, 1966), the first to make a soft landing on another planet (Venera 7 on December 15, 1970), the first to return images from another planet's surface (Venera 9 on June 8, 1975), and the first to perform high-resolution radar mapping scans (Venera 15 on June 2, 1983). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-satellite-sky-dvd-cold-war-space-race-films.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1968: The American Civil Rights Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Racial Segregation: Civil Rights Protests: Civil Rights Protests In The United States: Labor Union Disputes (Trade Union Disputes): Strikes (Strike Actions, Labor Strikes, Labour Strikes): Sanitation Strikes: The Memphis Sanitation Strike (The Memphis Sanitation Strike Of 1968): -- The Memphis Sanitation Strike begins, with the slogan "I Am A Man", in response to the deaths of sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker who were killed when the compactor accidentally activated when the pair sought refuge from a rainstorm in the compactor area of the garbage truck while working for the Memphis Department Of Sanitation at the corner of Colonial Rd. and Verne Rd. on February 1, 1968; the only reason they took shelter there was because they were not allowed to go into the whites only office quarters. The garbage compactors were defective, and had killed two other black sanitation workers in 1964 in the same manner, but the city refused to replace or repair them. The deaths served as a breaking point for more than 1,300 African American men from the Memphis Department of Public Works as they demanded higher wages, time and a half overtime, dues check-off, safety measures, and pay for the rainy days when they were told to go home. The Memphis Sanitation Strike was led by T.O. Jones and had the support of Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The AFSCME was chartered in 1964 by the state; the city of Memphis refused to recognize it. This resulted in the second sanitation Worker Strike in 1968 which began because of several incidents that led the employees to strike. Mayor Henry Loeb refused to recognize the strike and rejected the City Council vote, insisting that only he possessed the power to recognize the union. The Memphis Sanitation Strike prompted Martin Luther King Jr.'s presence, where he famously gave the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech a day before his assassination. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/king-a-filmed-record--montgomery-to-memphis-dvd.html

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February 12, 1973: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): Aftermath Of The Vietnam War: U.S. Prisoners Of War During The Vietnam War: Operation Homecoming: -- In accordance with the Paris Peace Accords signed on January 27, 1973, North Vietnam begins to release their American prisoners of war. As they returned to the United States by air transport, their arrivals in the United States were broadcast live on radio and television. Operation Homecoming was the return of 591 American prisoners of war (POWs) held by North Vietnam following the Paris Peace Accords that ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. On February 12, 1973, three C-141 transports flew to Hanoi, North Vietnam, and one C-9A aircraft was sent to Saigon, South Vietnam to pick up released prisoners of war. The first flight of 40 U.S. prisoners of war left Hanoi in a C-141A, which later became known as the "Hanoi Taxi" and is now in a museum. From February 12 to April 4, there were 54 C-141 missions flying out of Hanoi, bringing the former POWs home. During the early part of Operation Homecoming, groups of POWs released were selected on the basis of longest length of time in prison. The first group had spent six to eight years as prisoners of war. The last POWs were turned over to allied hands on March 29, 1973 raising the total number of Americans returned to 591. Of the POWs repatriated to the United States a total of 325 of them served in the United States Air Force, a majority of which were bomber pilots shot down over North Vietnam or VC controlled territory. The remaining 266 consisted of 138 United States Naval personnel, 77 soldiers serving in the United States Army, 26 United States Marines and 25 civilian employees of American government agencies. A majority of the prisoners were held at camps in North Vietnam, however some POWs were held in at various locations throughout Southeast Asia. A total of 69 POWs were held in South Vietnam by the VC and would eventually leave the country aboard flights from Loc Ninh, while only nine POWs were released from Laos, as well as an additional three from China. The prisoners returned included future politicians Senator John McCain of Arizona, vice-presidential candidate James Stockdale, and Representative Sam Johnson of Texas. John L. Borling, who piloted many aircraft including the F-15, F16, F-4, the SR-71 Blackbird, the U-2, and B-52 and B-1 bombers, was one of the POWs returned during Operation Homecoming, and he stated that once the POWs had been flown to Clark Air Base, hospitalized and debriefed, many of the doctors and psychologists were amazed by the resiliency of a majority of the men. Some of the repatriated soldiers, including Borling and John McCain, did not retire from the military, but instead decided to further their careers in the armed forces. Overall, Operation Homecoming did little to satisfy the American public's need for closure on the war in Vietnam. After Operation Homecoming, the U.S. still listed about 1,350 Americans as prisoners of war or missing in action and sought the return of roughly 1,200 Americans reported killed in action and body not recovered. These missing personnel would become the subject of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue for years to come. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/we-can-keep-you-forever-dvd-us-powsmias-still-in-indochina.html

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Today, February 12, 2026

February 12, 1983: #DOTD: #RIP: Eubie Blake, African American pianist, lyricist, and composer of ragtime, jazz, and popular music (b. February 7, 1887) #dies in Brooklyn, New York, five days after events celebrating his purported 100th birthday (which was actually his 96th birthday). He is buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. He was born James Hubert Blake at 319 Forrest Street, in Baltimore, Maryland, the only one of many children born to former slaves Emily "Emma" Johnstone and John Sumner Blake who survived childhood. In 1921, he and his long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans. Blake's compositions included such hits as "Bandana Days", "Charleston Rag", "Love Will Find a Way", "Memories of You" and "I'm Just Wild About Harry". The 1978 Broadway musical Eubie! showcased his works. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-history-of-jazz-by-billy-taylor-parts-i-amp-ii-dvd.html

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Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1789: #DOTD: #RIP: Ethan Allen, American hero of the American Revolution, general, co-founder of Vermont, co-founder of the Green Mountain Boys, farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, American Revolutionary War patriot, and politician (b. January 21, 1738) #dies, according to accounts that are not entirely consistent, unconcious at his Burlington, Vermont Republic home aged 51, several hours after Allen apparently lost conciousness during an apoplectic fit en route from South Hero, Vermont, where he had travelled the day before with one of his workers to visit his cousin, Ebenezer Allen, and to collect a load of hay. He had spent the evening in South Hero with friends and acquaintances, then spent the night there and set out the next morning for home. He was buried four days after his death in the Green Mount Cemetery in Burlington. The funeral was attended by dignitaries from the Vermont government and by large numbers of common folk who turned out to pay respects to a man many considered their champion. Ethan Allen was born in rural Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, the first child of Joseph and Mary Baker Allen, both descended from English Puritans. He is best known as one of the founders of Vermont and for The Capture Of Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolutionary War, when he led a small force that captured Fort Ticonderoga without bloodshed and obtained much needed supplies and ammunition for the revolutionary cause in 1775, early in the war. He was the brother of Ira Allen and the father of Frances Allen. Allen had a frontier upbringing, but he also received an education that included some philosophical teachings. In the late 1760s, he became interested in the New Hampshire Grants, buying land there and becoming embroiled in the legal disputes surrounding the territory. Legal setbacks led to the formation of the Green Mountain Boys, whom Allen led in a campaign of intimidation and property destruction to drive New York settlers from the Grants. He and the Green Mountain Boys seized the initiative early in the Revolutionary War and captured Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775. In September 1775, Allen led a failed attempt on Montreal which resulted in his capture by British authorities. He was imprisoned aboard Royal Navy ships, then paroled in New York City, and finally released in a prisoner exchange in 1778. Upon his release, Allen returned to the New Hampshire Grants which had declared independence in 1777, and he resumed political activity in the territory, continuing resistance to New York's attempts to assert control over the territory. Allen lobbied Congress for Vermont's official state recognition, and he participated in controversial negotiations with the British over the possibility of Vermont becoming a separate British province. Allen wrote accounts of his exploits in the war that were widely read in the 19th century, as well as philosophical treatises and documents relating to the politics of Vermont's formation. His business dealings included successful farming operations, one of Connecticut's early iron works, and land speculation in the Vermont territory. Allen and his brothers purchased tracts of land that became Burlington, Vermont. He was married twice, fathering eight children. https://store.earthstation1.com/american-revolutionary-war-dvd-documentaries.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Gimme That Old Time Thanksgiving! Holiday Films MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 2000: #DOTD: #RIP: Charles M. Schulz,, nicknamed "Sparky", American cartoonist who created the beloved long-running comic strip Peanuts, which features the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy, regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists in history (b. November 26, 1922, Good Grief Day) #dies in his sleep of a heart attack in his Santa Rosa home on February 12, 2000, at the age of 77. He was suffering from colorectal cancer. The last original Peanuts strip was published the following day. He had predicted that the strip would outlive him because the strips were usually drawn weeks before their publication. Schulz is buried at Pleasant Hills Cemetery in Sebastopol, California, where he first lived after relocating from Minnesota. He was posthumously inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2007. Charles M. Schulz was #born Charles Monroe Schulz in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a date celebrated as Good Grief Day, named after the iconic Charlie Brown catchphrase "Good Grief". He developed an interest in drawing while growing up in Saint Paul. He was conscripted in 1943 and served in the United States Army during the final years of World War II. After returning to Minnesota, Schulz began his comic strip career with Li'l Folks in 1947. In 1950, Schulz redeveloped Li'l Folks as a four-panel comic strip and submitted it to United Features Syndicate, who renamed it Peanuts and began publishing that October. Schulz relocated to Northern California with his family in 1958. Beginning with A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965, he helped write several animated television specials and four animated films based on his characters. He continued drawing Peanuts until his death in 2000. Schulz influenced other cartoonists including Jim Davis, Murray Ball, Bill Watterson, Matt Groening and Dav Pilkey. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1996. His stories and characters have brought boundless delight to the globe. The fact that his characters - Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the rest of the gang - have withstood the test of time demonstrates how influential these legendary characters have had on global pop culture. "Peanuts" is considered to be one of the greatest cartoon series in history, lauded for its simple yet sophisticated humor, and its philosophical and psychological social commentary. Multiple "Peanuts" television and film iterations were made, with the most notable being the 1965 T.V. special "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and the 1965 T.V. special "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", both of which continue to be run in syndication today. From the eccentric beagle, Snoopy, and his worrywart owner Charlie Brown to the colorful range of supporting characters such as Charlie's buddy Linus Van Pelt, his antagonistic sister Lucy van Pelt, the logical Woodstock, the spunky Peppermint Patty, the cultured pianist Schroeder, and the slovenly lovable Pig-Pen, Schulz's creations have brought laughter and joy to millions around the world. https://store.earthstation1.com/gimme-that-old-time-thanksgiving-holiday-films-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: All The Fine Young Men: The US 8th Air Force In WWII + Bonus MP4 DVD
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 2000: #DOTD: #RIP: Tom Landry, American professional football coach, player, and United States Eighth Air Force pilot (b. September 11, 1924) #dies aged 75 in Dallas, Texas after battling leukemia. Landry's funeral service was held at Highland Park United Methodist Church, where he was an active and committed member for 43 years. He was interred in the Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas. A cenotaph dedicated to Landry, complete with a depiction of his trademark fedora hat, was placed in the official Texas State Cemetery in Austin at the family's request. Tom Landry was born Thomas Wade Landry in Mission, Texas. Regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time, he was the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL), a position he held for 29 seasons. During his coaching career, he created many new formations and methods, such as the now default 4-3 defense that is used by a majority of teams in the NFL, and the "flex defense" system made famous by the "Doomsday Defense" squads he built during his tenure with the Cowboys. His 29 consecutive years from 1960 to 1988 as the coach of one team is an NFL record, along with his 20 consecutive winning seasons, which is considered to be his most impressive professional accomplishment. Landry attended the University of Texas at Austin as an industrial engineering major. Landry had given thought to enrolling at Mississippi State University, where his friend John Tripson was an All-American, but did not want to be far away from his friends and family in Texas. The main driving force in keeping him from enrolling at Mississippi State University was the notion that it would be too long a travel for his parents to see him play college football.He interrupted his education after a semester to serve in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. Landry was inspired to join the armed forces by his brother Robert Landry, who had enlisted in the Army Air Corps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. While ferrying a B-17 over to England, Robert Landry's plane had gone down over the North Atlantic, close to Iceland. Several weeks passed before the Army was able to officially declare Robert Landry dead. Landry began his basic training at Sheppard Field near Wichita Falls, Texas (now Sheppard AFB), and his preflight training at Kelly Field (now Kelly Field), located near San Antonio, Texas. Landry's first experience as a bomber pilot was a tough one. A few minutes after takeoff, Landry noticed that the pilot seemed to be working furiously, causing him to realize that the plane's engine had died. Despite this experience, Landry was committed to flying. At the age of 19, Landry was transferred to Sioux City, Iowa, where he trained as a copilot on the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber. In 1944, Landry got his orders, and from Sioux City he went to Liverpool, England, where he was assigned to the Eighth Air Force, in Ipswich. Landry earned his wings and a commission as a Second Lieutenant at Lubbock Army Air Field, and was assigned to the 493d Bombardment Group at RAF Debach, England, in the 860th Bombardment Squadron. From November 1944 to April 1945, he completed a combat tour of 26 missions, (his entire crew went on 29 missions and Landry did not go on 3 of them), he also survived a crash landing in Belgium after his bomber ran out of fuel. He returned to his studies at the University of Texas in the fall of 1946. https://store.earthstation1.com/all-the-fine-young-men-the-us-8th-air-force-in-wwii-dv8.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: When Baseball Went To War: Baseball & Its Players During WWII MP4 DVD
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1926: #BOTD:#HBD! Joe Garagiola, professional baseball catcher, later an announcer and television host (d. March 23, 2016) is #born Joseph Henry Garagiola in St. Louis, Missouri. Garagiola grew up on Elizabeth Avenue in an Italian-American neighborhood in the south of the city called The Hill, just across the street from Yogi Berra, his childhood friend and competitor, who was nine months older. Garagiola played nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, and New York Giants. He was later well known outside baseball for having been one of the regular panelists on The Today Show for many years and for his numerous appearances on game shows as a host and panelist. He occasionally guest-hosted The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, including the only live appearances by members of The Beatles on the program while still a group, when John Lennon and Paul McCartney appeared in May 1968. In the late 1960s and 1970s, Garagiola hosted the game shows He Said, She Said; Joe Garagiola's Memory Game; Sale of the Century; and To Tell the Truth, as well as the short-lived Strike It Rich. Garagiola was a guest celebrity panelist on Match Game in the late 1970s. He hosted the St. Louis area professional wrestling show Wrestling at the Chase for three years from 1959 to 1962 (his brother, Mickey, was the wrestling show's ring announcer) and was a regular host of the Orange Bowl Parade in Miami on New Year's Eve. Garagiola achieved a new field of fame as co-host of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show for USA Network from 1994 to 2002, remarking: "I say to some people, 'I played in the World Series, and I broadcast the World Series. I broadcast the All Star Game. I've done the Today show, The Tonight Show, The Tomorrow Show, the Yesterday Show, the Day After Tomorrow Show'. And people come up to me and say, "I love you in Westminster'." Joe Garagiola died at age 90 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Garagiola's funeral mass was held on April 13 in St. Louis at St. Ambrose Catholic Church, the same church where he was baptized. He was interred at Resurrection Cemetery in St. Louis. The Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team wore a patch in his memory on their right sleeve for the 2016 season, a black circle with "JOE" written in white in the center, with a catchers' mask replacing the O. https://store.earthstation1.com/when-baseball-went-to-war-baseball-and-its-players-during-wwii-mp4-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Story Of Civilization: Will & Ariel Durant DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1804: #DOTD: #RIP: Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic, one of the central Enlightenment thinkers, known as "The Father Of Modern Ethics", "The Father Of Modern Aesthetics", and by bringing together rationalism and empiricism, "The Father Of Modern Philosophy", whose comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology (the study the nature of knowledge, belief, and related issues), metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Western philosophy (b. April 22, 1724) #dies in the city of his birth, Konigsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (present-day Kaliningrad, Russia), aged 79. The exact cause of Immanuel Kant's death is unclear, though we do know that he died after a prolonged illness, and that he suffered from dementia in his late years. His last words were "Es ist gut" (German: "It is good") . Originally, Kant was buried inside Konigsberg Cathedral, but in 1880 his remains were moved to a neo-Gothic chapel adjoining the northeast corner of the cathedral. Over the years, the chapel became dilapidated and was demolished to make way for Kant's mausoleum, which was built on the same location. When his body was exhumed, his skull was measured and found to be larger than the average German male's with a high, broad forehead. His forehead has been an object of interest ever since it became well known through his portraits. The tomb and its mausoleum are among the few artifacts of German times preserved by the Soviets after they captured the city. Today, many newlyweds bring flowers to the mausoleum. Artifacts previously owned by Kant, known as Kantiana, were included in the Konigsberg City Museum. However, the museum was destroyed during World War II. A replica of the statue of Kant that in German times stood in front of the main University of Konigsberg building was donated by a German entity in the early 1990s and placed in the same grounds. fter the expulsion of Konigsberg's German population at the end of World War II, the University of Konigsberg where Kant taught was replaced by the Russian-language Kaliningrad State University, which appropriated the campus and surviving buildings. In 2005, the university was renamed Immanuel Kant State University of Russia. The name change was announced at a ceremony attended by President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Chancellor Gerhard Schroder of Germany, and the university formed a Kant Society, dedicated to the study of Kantianism. The university was again renamed in the 2010s, to Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University. In his doctrine of Transcendental Idealism -- a philosophical approach to knowledge that transcends mere consideration of sensory evidence and requires an understanding of the mind's innate modes of processing that sensory evidence -- Kant argued that space and time are mere "forms of intuition" that structure all experience, and that the objects of experience are mere "appearances". The nature of things as they are in themselves is unknowable to us. In an attempt to counter the philosophical doctrine of skepticism, he wrote the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787), his best-known work. Kant drew a parallel to the Copernican revolution in his proposal to think of the objects of experience as conforming to our spatial and temporal forms of intuition and the categories of our understanding, so that we have a priori (Latin: "from the earlier", i.e. (Latin: "that is", meaning "that is to say") knowledge is independent from any experience) cognition of those objects. These claims have proved especially influential in the social sciences, particularly sociology and anthropology, which regard human activities as pre-oriented by cultural norms. Kant believed that reason is the source of morality, and that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment. Kant's religious views were deeply connected to his moral theory. Their exact nature, however, remains in dispute. He hoped that perpetual peace could be secured through an international federation of republican states and international cooperation. His cosmopolitan reputation, however, is called into question by his promulgation of scientific racism for much of his career, although he altered his views on the subject in the last decade of his life. https://store.earthstation1.com/story-of-civilization-will-amp-ariel-durant-mp3-dvd-11-audiobo311.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Columbus & The Age Of Discovery TV Series + Bonus MP4 Download DVD Set
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1502: The Age Of Discovery (The Age Of Exploration): The 4th Portuguese India Armada: -- Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer who would ultimately become 1st Count of Vidigueira, Viceroy of India, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India on a punitive expedition targeting Calicut to avenge the numerous defeats of the 2nd Armada two years earlier. Assembled on the order of King Manuel I of Portugal, the expedition was the fourth of some thirteen Portuguese India Armadas. Along the way, in East Africa, the 4th Armada established a Portuguese factory in present-day Mozambique, made contact and opened trade with the gold entrepot of Sofala and extorted tribute from Kilwa. Once in India, the armada set about attacking Calicut shipping and disrupting trade along much of the Malabar Coast. But the ruling Zamorin of Calicut refused to accede to Portuguese demands, arguing that the violent exactions of the armada exceeded any claims they might have for compensation. The 4th Armada left without bringing the Zamorin to terms and leaving matters unresolved. Before departing, the armada established a crown factory in Cannanore and left behind a small patrol under Vicente Sodre, the first permanent Portuguese fleet in the Indian Ocean. https://store.earthstation1.com/columbus-and-the-age-of-discovery-epic-7-hourlong-episode-tv-serie7.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Nobel Century Nobel Prize History TV Series DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1974: The History Of The Soviet Union: The Soviet Human Rights Movement: Soviet Dissidents: -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer and political prisoner and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 (December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008) is exiled from the Soviet Union. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, born in Kislovodsk, RSFSR (now in Stavropol Krai, Russia), was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and Communism and helped to raise global awareness of the Soviet Gulag forced-labor camp system. After serving in the Red Army during World War II, he was sentenced to spend eight years in a labour camp and then internal exile for criticizing Josef Stalin in a private letter. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962). Although the reforms brought by Nikita Khrushchev freed him from exile in 1956, the publication of Cancer Ward (1968), August 1914 (1971), and The Gulag Archipelago (1973) angered the Soviet Union authorities, and Solzhenitsyn lost his Soviet citizenship in 1974. He was flown to West Germany, and in 1976 he moved with his family to the United States, where he continued to write. In 1990, shortly before the Dissolution Of The Soviet Union, his citizenship was restored, and four years later he returned to Russia, where he remained until his death in 2008. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His The Gulag Archipelago was a highly influential work that "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-nobel-century-nobel-prize-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Golden Age Of Second Avenue DVD, MP4 Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1855: #BOTD: #HBD! Jacob Adler, nicknamed "Nesher Hagodol" (Yiddish: "The Great Eagle", Adler being the German for "Eagle"), Jewish actor and star of Yiddish theater, first in Odessa, and later in London and in New York City's Yiddish Theater District (d. April 1, 1926) is #born Jacob Pavlovich Adler in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). He achieved his first theatrical success in Odessa, but his career there was rapidly cut short when Yiddish theater was banned in Russia in 1883. He then became a star in Yiddish theater in London, and in 1889, on his second voyage to the United States, he settled in New York City. Adler soon started a company of his own, ushering in a new, more serious Yiddish theater, most notably by recruiting the Yiddish theater's first realistic playwright, Jacob Gordin. Adler scored a great triumph in the title role of Gordin's Der Yiddisher King Lear (The Jewish King Lear), set in 19th-century Russia, which along with his portrayal of Shakespeare's Shylock would form the core of the persona he defined as the "Grand Jew". Nearly all his family went into theater; probably the most famous was his beautiful and gifted daughter Stella, star of Yiddish and American stage and theatre, who taught method acting to, among other people, Marlon Brando. Jacob Adler collapsed suddenly in New York City, dying almost instantly, aged 71. He is buried in Old Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, Queens, where other members of his family including his daughter Stella are also buried. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-second-ave-yiddish-theatre-in-america-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Ten From Your Show Of Shows - Sid Caesar TV Series DVD, Download, USB
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP: Sid Caesar, American actor, writer and comedian (b. September 8, 1922) #dies at his home in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 91, after a short undisclosed illness. On Caesar's death, Carl Reiner said, "He was the ultimate, he was the very best sketch artist and comedian that ever existed." Mel Brooks commented, "Sid Caesar was a giant, maybe the best comedian who ever practiced the trade. And I was privileged to be one of his writers and one of his friends." Woody Allen stated, "He was one of the truly great comedians of my time". Jon Stewart and The Daily Show paid tribute to Caesar at the show's close on February 12, 2014. Vanity Fair republished a brief tribute written by Billy Crystal in August 2005, in which he said he wondered if he would have been a comedian had it not seen Sid Caesar. He is interned at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery. Sid Caesar was born in Yonkers, New York to Jewish immigrants most likely from Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland, father Max Ziser (1874-1946) and mother was Ida (nee Raphael) (1887-1975). Reports state that the surname "Caesar" was given to Max as a child by an immigration official at Ellis Island; according to Marian L. Smith, senior historian of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, there is no known case of a name changed at Ellis Island; despite this claim, many immigrant families declare that claim to be false; accordingly, Sid Caesar's legal name in America, Isaac Sidney Caesar, is likely derived from what would have been his correct name, Isaac Sidney Ziser. Sid Caesar was best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series: Your Show of Shows, which was a 90-minute weekly show watched by 60 million people, and its successor, Caesar' Hour, both of which influenced later generations of comedians. Your Show of Shows and its cast received seven Emmy nominations between the years 1953 and 1954 and tallied two wins. He also acted in movies; he played Coach Calhoun in Grease (1978) and its sequel Grease 2 (1982) and appeared in the films It' a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Silent Movie (1976), History of the World, Part I (1981), and Cannonball Run II (1984). https://store.earthstation1.com/ten-from-your-show-of-shows-tv-show-movie-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Earle Doud, Kenneth Mars: Henry The First CDs, MP3 Download, USB Drive
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 2011:#DOTD: #RIP: Kenneth Mars, American comedian, actor and voice actor, who specialized in comedic roles (b. February 12, 1935) #dies of pancreatic cancer in Granada Hills, California at the age of 75. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were given to his widow Barbara Newborn. Kenneth Mars was born in Chicago. His father, Bernard "Sonny" Mars, was a radio and television personality. Kenneth studied fine arts and acting at Northwestern University. He had roles in two Mel Brooks films: as the Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in The Producers (1968) and Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp in Young Frankenstein (1974). He also appeared as a regular guest on the TV series Fernwood Tonight (1977). He also did a comedy album with Earle Doud, Henry The First, featuring Mars doing an uncanny Henry Kissinger impression. He appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up Doc? (1972), and Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987), and Shadows and Fog (1991). Mars appeared in two seasons of Malcolm in the Middle as Otto Mannkusser, Francis's well-meaning but dimwitted boss and a German immigrant who owns a dude ranch. He voiced King Triton, Ariel's father, in the 1989 Disney animated film The Little Mermaid and its sequel, as well as its companion television series, and the Kingdom Hearts series. He also did several other animated voice-over film roles such as Littlefoot's grandfather in the Land Before Time series (up to 2008) and that of Professor Screweyes in We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993), and King Colbert (Prince Cornelius's father) in Thumbelina (1994). https://store.earthstation1.com/earle-doud-presents-kenneth-mars-henry-the-first-comedy-album-mp3-c3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Grand Illusion La Grande Illusion (1937) DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1979: #DOTD: #RIP: Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, author and screenwriter (b. September 15, 1894) #dies in Beverly Hills, California of a heart attack, aged 84. His body was returned to France and buried beside his family in the cemetery at Essoyes, Aube, France.. As a film director and actor, Jean Renoir made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. He was ranked by the BFI's Sight and Sound poll of critics in 2002 as the fourth greatest director of all time. Among numerous honors accrued during his lifetime, he received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975 for his contribution to the motion picture industry. Renoir was the son of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He was one of the first filmmakers to be known as an auteur, an artist such as a film director who applies a highly centralized and subjective control to many aspects of a collaborative creative work, a person equivalent to an author of a novel or a play; the term is commonly referenced to filmmakers or directors with a recognizable style or thematic preoccupation, such as Ingmar Bergmen, Akira Kurosawa and Jean Renoir. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-grand-illusion-dvd-rare-original-us-release-wwi-drama.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Archival Cartoon Classics #2 Mutt And Jeff History And More! MP4 DVD
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1955: Comics: Cartoons: Print Cartoons (The Comics): -- The last cartoon of Toonerville Folks (a.k.a. The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All The Trains), a popular newspaper comic strip feature by Fontaine Fox, is published. It began in 1908 in the Chicago Post, and by 1913, it was syndicated nationally by the Wheeler Syndicate. From the 1930s on, it was distributed by the McNaught Syndicate. The single-panel gag cartoon (with longer-form comics on Sunday) was a daily look at Toonerville, situated in what are now called the suburbs. Central to the strip was the rickety little trolley called the "Toonerville Trolley That Met All The trains", driven in a frenzy by the grizzly old Skipper to meet each commuter train as it arrived in town. A few of the many richly formed characters included Suitcase Simpson, Mickey McGuire, the Powerful Katrinka, the Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang, Aunt Eppie Hogg, Little Woo-Woo Wortle, The Little Scorpions, and "Stinky" Davis. Fox described the inspiration for the cartoon series in an article he wrote for The Saturday Evening Post titled "A Queer Way To Make a Living" (February 11, 1928, page six): "After years of gestation, the idea for the Toonerville Trolley was born one day up in Westchester County when my wife and I had left New York City to visit Charlie Voight, the cartoonist, in the Pelhams" [a suburban town in Westchester County, approximately 10 miles northeast of Midtown Manhattan]. "At the station, we saw a rattletrap of a streetcar, which had as its crew and skipper a wistful old codger with an Airedale beard. He showed as much concern in the performance of his job as you might expect from Captain Hartley when docking the Leviathan." [a referece to USS Leviathan, originally the ocean liner SS Vaterland of Germany's Hamburg America Line, which was seized by The United States Shipping Board in July 1917 after America's entry into World War I and converted into an American troop ship, and after the war advertised as the world's largest and fastest ocean liner.) Between 1920 and 1922, 17 Toonerville silent film comedy adaptations were scripted by Fox for Philadelphia's Betzwood Film Company. These starred Dan Mason as the Skipper with Wilna Hervey as Katrinka. Only seven of those 17 shorts survive today. Four are preserved in the Betzwood Film Archive at Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Mickey Rooney starred as Mickey McGuire in more than 55 comedy shorts filmed between 1927 and 1936. Rooney (ne Joe Yule, Jr.) adopted the professional name Mickey McGuire for a time before finally settling on the last name Rooney. Three Toonerville animated cartoon soundies were produced by Van Beuren Studios in 1936 as part of the Rainbow Parade series. Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Katrinka was animated by Joseph Barbera, American animator and cartoonist, best known as the co-founder of the animation studio Hanna-Barbera: 1) January 17, 1936: Toonerville Trolley; 2) July 3, 1936: Trolley Ahoy; and 3) October 2, 1936: Toonerville Picnic. A Toonerville Trolley cartoon, "Lost and Found", was included in Simple Gifts, a Christmas collection of six animated shorts shown on PBS TV in 1977. Over the years, various Toonerville characters acted as spokesmen for popular products of the day. Skipper, Flem Proddy and Katrinka appeared throughout the decades in advertisements for Drano, Kellogg's cereals and Chef Boyardee foods. https://store.earthstation1.com/archival-cartoon-classics-2-mutt-and-jeff-history-and-more-mp4-d24.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Gary Owens: Put Your Head On My Finger Comedy LP MP3 CD, Download, USB
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 2015: #DOTD: #RIP: Gary Owens, American disc jockey, voice actor, radio announcer and comedian (b. May 10, 1934) #dies at age 80 in Encino, California from complications due to Type 1 diabetes, a condition with which he was first diagnosed at the age of eight. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were given to his widow Arleta Markell. Gary Owens was born Gary Bernard Altman in Mitchell, South Dakota. His polished baritone speaking voice generally offered deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Owens was equally proficient in straight or silly assignments and was frequently heard on television and radio as well as in commercials. He was best known, aside from being the announcer on Laugh-In, for providing the voice of the titular superhero on Space Ghost and Blue Falcon in Dynomutt, Dog Wonder. He also played himself in a cameo appearance on Space Ghost Coast to Coast in 1998. Owens' first cartoon-voice acting was performing the voice of Roger Ramjet on the Roger Ramjet cartoons. He later served as voice of the over-the-air digital network Antenna TV. https://store.earthstation1.com/gary-owens-put-your-head-on-my-finger-comedy-lp-mp3-c3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Old Time Radio World War II MP3 MegaSet DVD, Audio Download, USB
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1957: #DOTD: #RIP: Edwin C. Hill, radio news broadcaster, Fox Newsreel Chief and reporter for The Sun (b. April 23, 1884) #dies at St. Anthony Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida at the age of 72. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. He was born Edwin Conger Hill in Aurora, Indiana. After his graduation from University of Indiana, Mr. Hill became a newsman. As one of the New York Sun's star reporters he covered centers of interest around the world. He became a director of newsreels and wrote syndicated newspaper columns. He was fond of riding, golf and his bull terrier. His flair for human interest won him a wide following. Born in Aurora, Indiana 4/23/1884; died 2/12/1957 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Married to reporter Jane Gail (1922-?). Educated at The University of Indiana and Butler College, then beginning in 1904 he worked for newspapers including The Indianapolis Sentinel and The New York Sun, later he was associated with Fox Film News. He began his radio broadcasting career in 1931, working as a CBS, NBC and ABC news commentator. His better-known radio programs included "The Human Side Of The News" (1932-1952), "Your News Parade" (1934-1952(?)), and "Freedom U.S.A." (1952).(1952). https://store.earthstation1.com/the-old-time-radio-world-war-ii-megaset-2-dual-layer-mp3-dv23.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Offshore Pirate Radio 1960s-1980s MP3s DVD, Audio Download, USB Drive
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 2000: #DOTD: #RIP: Screamin' Jay Hawkins, African American R & B singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist, saxophonist, tambourinist, actor, film producer, boxer and eerily endearing maniac (b. July 18, 1929) #dies after emergency surgery from an aneurysm in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, near Paris, at 70 years old. His remains were cremated, and were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean. Screamin' Jay Hawkins was born Jalacy J. Hawkins in Cleveland, Ohio. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances, he sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him an early pioneer of shock rock. He received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the 1989 indie film Mystery Train. He and his band famously drank copious amounts of alcohol as they progressively took dozens and dozens of takes of his (in)famous "I Put A Spell On You" in order to make the recording sound sufficiently eccentric. Screaming Lord Sutch, English musician, deejay and perennial parliamentary candidate, inspired by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, changed his stage name to "Screaming Lord Sutch", largely adopting Screamin' Jay Hawkins' stage act, and regularly played Hawkins' records on his offshore pirate radio station "Radio Sutch". https://store.earthstation1.com/offshore-pirate-radio-2-dual-layer-mp3-dvds-uk-amp-euro23.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WABC Radio Airchecks MP3 Collection 1960s-1980s DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 2000: #DOTD: #RIP: Oliver, American pop singer, best known for his 1969 song "Good Morning Starshine" from the musical Hair as well as "Jean" (the theme from the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) (b. February 22, 1945) #dies aged 54 at LSU Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, ten months later his brother John donated bone marrow for a transplant to try to save his life from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. For a number of years in the mid-1990s, Oliver was treated for Sjogren Syndrome, a long-term autoimmune disease, before being diagnosed correctly; however, by the time that disease was confirmed, it had spread throughout his body, giving little hope of a full remission. Oliver is buried at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Dallas, Texas. Oliver was born William Oliver Swofford in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill starting in 1963 and began singing as an undergraduate. He was a member of two popular music groups - The Virginians and, later, The Good Earth - and was then known as Bill Swofford. His uptempo single "Good Morning Starshine" from the pop/rock musical Hair reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1969, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. a month later. Later that fall, a softer, ballad single titled "Jean" (the theme from the Oscar-winning film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) reached No. 2 on the Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart. Written by poet Rod McKuen, "Jean" also sold over one million copies, garnering Oliver his second gold disc in as many months. Performing both hits on a number of television variety shows and specials in the late 1960s, including The Ed Sullivan Show, helped both songs. Oliver had more modest commercial success with the cover of "Sunday Mornin'", which peaked at No. 35 in December 1969, and "Angelica", which stalled at No. 97 four months later. His cover of "I Can Remember", the 1968 James & Bobby Purify hit, missed the Hot 100 but climbed into the top 25 of the Billboard Easy Listening chart in the mid summer of 1970. Late that fall, Oliver also had one inspirational recording titled "Light the Way", composed by Eric Carmen. Oliver's last single to enter the pop music charts was his 1971 cover of "Early Morning Rain" by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. The song "Bubbled Under" at No. 124 on May 1, 1971 and also reached No. 38 on the Easy Listening chart a few weeks later. As producer Bob Crewe preferred elaborately orchestrated musical arrangements and Oliver preferred a simpler folk sound, these "creative differences" led them to part ways in 1971. Resuming the name Bill "Oliver" Swofford, the singer toured hundreds of college campuses in the eastern and southern United States in 1976 and 1977. He was recorded on numerous albums of his friends including Steve Goodman and is credited with guitar, and vocals on several of Steve's albums. He and Goodman wrote one of the songs together (Jessie's Jig (Rob's Romp, Beth's Bounce)) which was released on the album Jessie's Jig and Other Favorites and dedicated it to their children. His natural talent and vocal range made him one who was called often for recording sessions. In 1984, Oliver recorded his final album In Our Time. The album was finally released in 2005 under the title Lonely Days, and contained the same song list as "In Our Time", minus his re-recorded hits, "Good Morning Starshine" and "Jean". In 2009, Ted Brown, a native of Swofford's home town, asked North Carolina legislators to introduce a resolution in the North Carolina General Assembly to honor Swofford and his contributions to music. On July 7, 2009, the resolution was passed. On the 40th anniversary of Swofford's hit-making success, Brown chaired and directed a musical tribute, "OliverFest", in honor of Swofford. Bob Crewe, and "60's on 6" celebrity disc jockey, Phlash Phelps, served as honorary co-chair(s) with Brown. Oliver was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2012, he was inducted into the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame. Four years later, he was inducted into the Wilkes County (North Carolina) Hall of Fame. https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Color Adjustment 40 Years Of Black America On Broadcast TV DVD MP4 USB
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1956: #BOTD: #HBD! Arsenio Hall, African American comedian, actor and the first black late-night talk show host in history, is born in Cleveland, Ohio. He hosted the late-night talk show, The Arsenio Hall Show, from 1989 until 1994, and again from 2013 to 2014. He has appeared in Martial Law, Coming to America (1988), Coming 2 America (2021), and Harlem Nights (1989). He was also the host of Star Search and appeared as Alan Thicke's sidekick on the talk show Thicke of the Night. In 2012, he won NBC's reality-competition game show Celebrity Apprentice 5. https://store.earthstation1.com/color-adjustment-40-years-of-black-americans-on-tv-dvd-download-u40.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Reasonable Doubt: JFK Assassination Single-Bullet Theory DVD, MP4, USB
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1930: #BOTD: Arlen Specter, American lieutenant, lawyer, and United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011, originator of the controversial "Single-Bullet Theory" when he served as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission investigating The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy (d. October 14, 2012) is #born in Wichita, Kansas, to immigrant Russian/Ukrainian Jewish parents. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he was the longest-serving senator from Pennsylvania, having represented the state for 30 years. Specter graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and served with the United States Air Force during the Korean War. Specter later graduated from Yale Law School and opened a law firm with Marvin Katz, who would later become a federal judge. In 1965, Specter was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia, a position that he held until 1973. During his 30-year Senate career, Specter staked out a spot in the political center. He served as Chair Of Tthe Senate Judiciary Committee from 2005 to 2007. In 2006, Specter was selected by Time as one of America's Ten Best Senators. Specter lost his 2010 re-election bid in the Democratic primary to former U.S. Navy vice admiral Joe Sestak, who then lost to Republican Pat Toomey in the general election. Toomey succeeded Specter on January 3, 2011. In 1993, Specter underwent a surgery to remove a brain tumor. In early 2005 he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, but continued his work in the Senate while undergoing chemotherapy. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania aged 82 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He is buried at Shalom Memorial Park in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. https://store.earthstation1.com/reasonable-doubt-the-singlebullet-theory-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Quiz Show Scandal 1950s TV Game Show Fixing Scandals DVD, MP4, USB
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1926: #BOTD: #HBD! Charles Van Doren, American academic, writer, and editor, who was involved in the most famous of the television quiz show scandals of the 1950s (d. April 9, 2019) is #born Charles Lincoln Van Doren in Manhattan, the elder son of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic and teacher Mark Van Doren and novelist and writer Dorothy Van Doren (nee Graffe), and a nephew of critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Carl Van Doren. Charles Van Doren testified in 1959 before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the show Twenty-One. Terminated by NBC, he joined Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., in 1959, becoming a vice-president and writing and editing many books before retiring in 1982. He graduated from the High School of Music & Art in New York City, and earned a B.A. degree in Liberal Arts (1946) from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, as well as an M.A. in astrophysics (1949) and a Ph.D. in English (1955), both at Columbia University. He was also a student at University of Cambridge in Great Britain. On November 28, 1956, Van Doren made his first appearance on the NBC quiz show Twenty-One. He was approached by game show producers Dan Enright and Albert Freedman who were impressed by Van Doren's polite style and telegenic appearance, thinking the youthful Columbia teacher would be the man to defeat their incumbent Twenty-One champion, Herb Stempel, and boost the show's declining ratings as Stempel's reign continued. In January 1957, Van Doren entered a winning streak that ultimately earned him 129K USD (1.17M USD today) and made him famous, including an appearance on the cover of Time on February 11, 1957. His Twenty-One run ended on March 11, when he lost to Vivienne Nearing, a lawyer whose husband Van Doren had previously beaten. After his defeat he was offered a three-year contract with NBC worth 150K USD. When allegations of cheating were first raised by Stempel and others, Van Doren denied any wrongdoing, saying, "It's silly and distressing to think that people don't have more faith in quiz shows." As the investigation by the district attorney's office and eventually the United States Congress progressed, Charles Van Doren, now host on The Today Show, was under pressure from NBC to testify but went into hiding in order to avoid the committee's subpoena. It was another former Twenty-One contestant, the artist James Snodgrass, who would finally provide indisputable corroborating proof that the show had been rigged. Snodgrass had documented every answer he was coached on in a series of registered letters he mailed to himself prior to the show's being broadcast. One month after the hearings began, Van Doren emerged from hiding and confessed before the committee that he had been complicit in the fraud. On November 2, 1959, he admitted to the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, a United States Congress subcommittee, chaired by Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris, that he had been given questions and answers in advance of the show. Van Doren was dropped by NBC and resigned from his post as an English instructor at Columbia University. He became an editor at Praeger Books and a pseudonymous (at first) writer, before becoming an editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the author of several books. In 2005, Van Doren joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut, Torrington; the campus was closed in 2016. Van Doren spent the last years of his life with his wife, Gerry, in a "small, old house" (his words) on the land his parents bought in Cornwall, Connecticut, in the 1920s. Charles Van Doren died at the age of 93 in a retirement community in Canaan, Connecticut. He is buried at Cornwall Hollow Cemetery in Cornwall Hollow, County, Connecticut. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-quiz-show-scandal-tv-game-show-fixing-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: China In Revolution 1911-1949 TV Series DVD, Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1912: The Century Of Humiliation: The History Of China (The Hundred Years Of National Humiliation): Anti-Qing Movements: The 1911 Revolution (The Xinhai Revolution , The Hsinhai Revolution): The Abdication Of Puyi: -- The Xuantong Emperor, Puyi, the eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty and the last Emperor of China, abdicates. On December 2, 1908, Puyi became Emperor of China at the age of two. Puyi of the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan, commonly known as Pu Yi, was the last Emperor of China and the twelfth and final ruler of the Qing dynasty. When a child, he ruled as the Xuantong Emperor in China and Khevt Yos Khaan in Mongolia from 1908 until his forced abdication on February 12, 1912, after the successful Xinhai Revolution, also known as the Chinese Revolution or the Revolution of 1911. From 1-12 July 1917, he was briefly restored to the throne as emperor by the warlord Zhang Xun. In 1932 after the occupation of Manchuria, the state of Manchukuo was established by Japan, and he was chosen to become 'Emperor' of the new state using the era-name of Datong (Ta-tung). In 1934, he was declared the Kangde Emperor (or Kang-te Emperor) of Manchukuo and ruled until the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945. After the People' Republic Of China was established in 1949, Puyi was imprisoned as a war criminal for 10 years, wrote his memoirs and became a titular member of the Chinese People' Political Consultative Conference and the National People' Congress. https://store.earthstation1.com/china-in-revolution-19111949-dvd-2-part-tv-documenta191119492.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Monarchy In The UK: British Royal History DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1554: #DOTD: #RIP: Lady Jane Grey, also known as Lady Jane Dudley (after her marriage) and as "the Nine Days' Queen", was an English noblewoman and de facto Queen Of England and Ireland from July 10 until July 19, 1553, when she was replaced by Mary I Of England as Queen Of England after only nine days on the throne (b. c. 1537) #dies when she is executed along with her husband were executed on the charge of treason. Jane was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII through his younger daughter Mary, and was a first cousin once removed of Edward VI. She had an excellent humanist education and a reputation as one of the most learned young women of her day. In May 1553, she married Lord Guildford Dudley, a younger son of Edward's chief minister John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. In June 1553, Edward VI wrote his will, nominating Jane and her male heirs as successors to the Crown, in part because his half-sister Mary was Roman Catholic, while Jane was a committed Protestant and would support the reformed Church of England, whose foundation Edward claimed to have laid. The will removed his half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, from the line of succession on account of their illegitimacy, subverting their claims under the Third Succession Act. After Edward's death, Jane was proclaimed queen on July 10, 1553 and awaited coronation in the Tower of London. Support for Mary grew very quickly, and most of Jane's supporters abandoned her. The Privy Council of England suddenly changed sides and proclaimed Mary as queen on July 19, 1553, deposing Jane. Her primary supporter, her father-in-law the Duke of Northumberland, was accused of treason and executed less than a month later. Jane was held prisoner in the Tower and was convicted in November 1553 of high treason, which carried a sentence of death - though Mary initially spared her life. However, Jane soon became viewed as a threat to the Crown when her father, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, got involved with Wyatt's Rebellion against Queen Mary's intention to marry Philip II of Spain. Both Jane and her husband were executed on February 12, 1554. https://store.earthstation1.com/monarchy-in-the-uk-british-royal-family-history-films-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: La Belle Epoque 1890-1914 DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, February 12, 2026
February 12, 1929: #DOTD: #RIP: Lillie Langtry, English-American socialite, actress, producer, singer and beauty nicknamed "The Jersey Lily" (b. October 13, 1853) #dies in Monaco at dawn, aged 75. She is buried at Saint Saviour Churchyard in St Saviour, Bailiwick Of Jersey, the self-governing British Crown Dependency Channel Island country in The English Channel off the coast of Normandy, France. Born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton on the island of Jersey and known as Lillie (or Lily) Langtry, she moved to London upon marrying Edward Langtry in 1876. Her looks and personality attracted interest, commentary, and invitations from artists and society hostesses, and she was celebrated as a young woman of great beauty and charm. By 1881, she had become an actress and starred in many plays in the UK and the United States, including She Stoops to Conquer, The Lady of Lyons, and As You Like It, eventually running her own stage production company. In later life she performed "dramatic sketches" in vaudeville. She was also known for her relationships with noblemen, including the Prince of Wales, the Earl of Shrewsbury, and Prince Louis of Battenberg. She was the subject of widespread public and media interest. https://store.earthstation1.com/la-belle-epoque-18901914-western-high-society-cul18901914.html