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February 12th, 2007	Event	A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5 people in the Trolley Square shooting.
February 12th, 2006	Event	A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington DC up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.
February 12th, 2004	Event	The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
February 12th, 2002	Event	The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He eventually dies four years later before its conclusion.
February 12th, 2002	Event	US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States nuclear waste repository.
February 12th, 2002	Event	An Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran, killing 119.
February 12th, 2001	Event	NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
February 12th, 1999	Event	President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
February 12th, 1997	Event	Hwang Jang-yop, secretary in the Workers Party of Korea and a prime architect of North Korea s Juche doctrine, defects at the South Korean embassy in Beijing along with his aide, Kim Dok-hong.
February 12th, 1990	Event	Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian History when she becomes premier of Western Australia.

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