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 - Charles Darwin
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1809: Charles Darwin, the naturalist who published his theory of evolution via natural selection in his 1859 book "On the Origin of Species," is born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

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