Template:April 12 selected anniversaries

1633 - The formal interrogation by the Inquisition of Galileo Galilei began.
1815 - The most violent volcanic eruption in recorded history, Mount Tambora in Indonesia killed 92,000 and caused the Year Without a Summer, 1816.
1961 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to enter outer space.
1981 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launched on the STS-1 mission.

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