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 - Slobodan Milosevic
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2002: The trial of Slobodan Miloševic, the former Serbian and Yugoslavian president charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. He would die four years later before its conclusion.

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