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February 12, 1958

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Notable Births

1958Bobby Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and executive[†]

Robert David Smith is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He played for the Minnesota North Stars and Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played in four Stanley Cup Finals and won the 1986 Stanley Cup with the Canadiens. Smith was the majority owner of the Halifax Mooseheads junior hockey team for twenty years until February 2023.

Notable Deaths

Douglas Hartree

1958Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (born 1897)[†]

Douglas Rayner Hartree was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree–Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of a differential analyser using Meccano.

Historical Context for February 12, 1958

In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]