April 12

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April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). There are 263 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople
1606 - The Union Jack is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.
1633 - The formal interrogation by the Inquisition of Galileo Galilei begins.
1815 - Mount Tambora blows its top during an eruption event that started on April 5. 92,000 are killed during this eruption.
1861 - American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina
1864 - American Civil War: Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces under General Nathan Bedford Forrest kill most of the African American soldiers who had surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee
1865 - American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama falls to the Union Army
1877 - The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal
1926 - By a vote of 45 to 41, the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and seats Daniel F. Steck, after Brookhart had already served for over one year.
1937 - Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at the British Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby, England
1945 - Harry S. Truman is inaugurated as the 33rd President of the United States.
1946 - Syria gains independence from France
1961 - Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to go in to space.
1968 - Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah
1975 - Vietnam War: The United States embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia is evacuated as Khmer Rouge troops encircle the city
1981 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.
1990 - Christian Bernard, F.R.C., becomes Imperator of AMORC
1992 - Euro Disney opens in Marne-la-Vallee, France
2002 - Coup d'Etat against Hugo Ch�vez in Venezuela

Births

599 BC - Mahavira, founder of Jainism (d. 527 BC)
812 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (d. 835)
1748 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (d. 1836)
1777 - Henry Clay, American statesman and orator (d. 1852)
1799 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1855)
1832 - Hugo Adolph Steinheil, optician (d. 1893)
1856 - William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer (d. 1937)
1867- Sindo Garay, Cuban singer and musician (d. 1968)
1884 - Otto Meyerhof, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1922) (d. 1951)
1888 - Cecil Kimber, founder of MG
1892 - Johnny Dodds, jazz musician (d. 1940)
1895 - Lily Pons, opera soprano
1903 - Sally Rand, fan dancer (d. 1979)
1904 - Paul Dahlke, actor (d. 1984)
1907 - Felix de Weldon, sculptor (d. 2003)
1913 - Lionel Hampton, musician (d. 2002)
1916 - Beverly Cleary, writer
1922 - Tiny Tim, musician (d. 1996)
1933 - Montserrat Caball�, opera singer
1939 - Alan Ayckbourn, writer
1940 - Herbie Hancock, musician
1941 - Bobby Moore, English national football team captain (d. 1993)
1944 - John Kay, of Steppenwolf
1947 - Tom Clancy, author
1947 - David Letterman, talk show host
1948 - Joschka Fischer, foreign minister of Germany
1949 - Scott Turow, writer
1950 - David Cassidy, singer, actor
1952 - Ralph Wiley, sports journalist (d. 2004)
1956 - Andy Garcia, actor
1956 - Herbert Gr�nemeyer, singer, pianist and actor
1957 - Vince Gill, country musician
1968 - Stephanie Haumueller, clothing designer
1971 - Shannen Doherty, actress
1971 - Nicholas Brendon, actor
1979 - Claire Danes, actress

Deaths

65 - Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher, dramatist, statesman (b. c. 3 BC)
238 - Roman emperors Gordian I (suicide) and Gordian II (killed in battle)
1850 - Adoniram Judson, pioneer Baptist missionary to India and Burma (b. 1788)
1912 - Clara Barton, nurse and Red Cross advocate (b. 1821)
1938 - Feodor Chaliapin, operatic bass (b. 1873)
1945 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
1962 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Indian politician and engineer, dies at 101
1975 - Josephine Baker, dancer (b. 1906)
1980 - Clark McConachy, billiards and snooker player (b. 1895)
1981 - Joe Louis, boxer (b. 1914)
1988 - Alan Paton, novelist (b. 1903)
1989 - Sugar Ray Robinson, multiple time world champion boxer (b. 1921)
1989 - Abbie Hoffman, radical leader (b. 1936)
2001 - Harvey Ball, inventor of the Smiley (b. 1921)
2003 - Cecil H. Green, Texas Instruments Founder (b. 1900)

Holidays and observances

The Roman holiday of Cerealia begins.
Yuri's Night, an international celebration of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

From "Lines in Praise of a Date Made Praiseworthy Solely by Something Very Nice That Happened to It", by Ogden Nash:

"As through the calendar I delve

I pause to rejoice in April twelve.

Yea, be I in sickness or be I in health

My favorite date is April twealth.

..."

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