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 - Barbie and Ken
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2004: Mattel announces that "Barbie" and "Ken" were breaking up after 43 years together. The press release states that the dolls had "met on the set of their first television commercial together in 1961."

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