On this day: February 12

February 12: Red Hand Day

Christian Dior's "New Look"

• 1818 – On the first anniversary of its victory in the Battle of Chacabuco, Chile formally declared its independence from Spain.
• 1912 – Xinhai Revolution: Puyi, the last Emperor of China, abdicated under a deal brokered by military official and politician Yuan Shikai, formally replacing the Qing Dynasty with a new republic in China.
• 1947 – The French fashion company Christian Dior SE unveiled a "New Look" (pictured) that revolutionized women's dress and reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world after World War II.
• 1994 – Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway.
• 2001 – NASA's robotic space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

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