February 12
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1404 - Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performs the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
1947 - The largest observed iron meteorite at the time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
1961 - U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.