On this day: February 12

POSTED: 04:16 PM PST Feb 11, 2013    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Feb 11, 2013 

Charles Darwin and Abe Lincoln share a birthday, Superman makes his radio debut, President Clinton is acquitted in his impeachment trial, and Charles Schulz passes away, all on this day.

OTD February 12 - Jean Renoir
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1979: Film director Jean Renoir, best known for the movies "Grand Illusion," the first foreign language film to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture, "The Rules of the Game" and "The Southerner," dies at the age of 84 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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