This day in History - December 12

413 Historic Events for December 12
1941 Event German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
1941 Birth Robert Covington, drummer/singer
1941 Birth Tim Hauser, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
1942 Birth Mike Heron, rocker
1942 Event German offensive in South Western Stalingrad
1942 Birth Mike Pinder, Birmingham England, rocker (Moody Blues)
1943 Birth Dickey Betts, West Palm Beach Fl, guitarist (Allman Bros-Ramblin' Man)
1943 Birth Dave Munden, rock drummer (Brian Poole and The Tremeloes)
1943 Birth Grover Washington Jr, jazz artist (Mr Magic)
1943 Birth Mike Smith, rocker
1945 Birth Alan Ward, rocker
1945 Birth Karl Edward Wagner, US, sci-fi author (Bloodstone, Night Winds)
1945 Birth Tony Williams, jazz musician
1945 Birth Susi Hush, TV producer
1945 Birth Leslie Holbert, LPGA golfer
1945 Event Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death
1946 Event UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr
1946 Event Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building and burying 38
1946 Death Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Abelard and Helo‹se), dies at 67
1946 Birth Marlous Fluitsma, actress (De Prooi, Apart, Alle Dagen Feest)
1946 Birth George Santo Pietro, husband of Vanna White
1946 Birth Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazil, Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
1946 Birth Clive Bunker, rock drummer (Jethro Tull)
1946 Event Tide detergent introduced
1947 Death J£lio A Peixoto, Brazilian writer (Fruta do Mato), dies at 70