April 12 Events |
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April 12th, 2002 (April 12 2002) | Event | Pedro Carmona becomes interim President of Venezuela during the military coup against Hugo Chavez. | |
April 12th, 2002 (April 12 2002) | Event | Palestinian suicide bomber (female) kills 7 and injures 104 (among them 9 Arabs) at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem. | |
April 12th, 1999 (April 12 1999) | Event | US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit. | Bill Clinton Quotes |
April 12th, 1998 (April 12 1998) | Event | An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec. | |
April 12th, 1994 (April 12 1994) | Event | Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam. | |
April 12th, 1992 (April 12 1992) | Event | Disneyland Resort Paris opens in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. | |
April 12th, 1990 (April 12 1990) | Event | Jim Gary s Twentieth Century Dinosaurs exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. | |
April 12th, 1981 (April 12 1981) | Event | The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission. | |
April 12th, 1980 (April 12 1980) | Event | Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d etat, ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession. | |
April 12th, 1980 (April 12 1980) | Event | Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John s, Newfoundland. | |
April 12th, 1968 (April 12 1968) | Event | Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah. | |
April 12th, 1963 (April 12 1963) | Event | The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits. | |
April 12th, 1961 (April 12 1961) | Event | Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1). | Yuri Gagarin Quotes |
April 12th, 1955 (April 12 1955) | Event | The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective. | Jonas Salk Quotes |
April 12th, 1945 (April 12 1945) | Event | US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President. | |
April 12th, 1937 (April 12 1937) | Event | Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at Rugby, England. | |
April 12th, 1935 (April 12 1935) | Event | First flight of the Bristol Blenheim. | |
April 12th, 1934 (April 12 1934) | Event | The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, US. | |
April 12th, 1934 (April 12 1934) | Event | The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers. | |
April 12th, 1927 (April 12 1927) | Event | April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the CPC members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. | |
April 12th, 1917 (April 12 1917) | Event | World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans. | |
April 12th, 1877 (April 12 1877) | Event | The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal. | |
April 12th, 1865 (April 12 1865) | Event | American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army. | |
April 12th, 1864 (April 12 1864) | Event | American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. | |
April 12th, 1861 (April 12 1861) | Event | American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. | Charles Fort Quotes |
April 12th, 1820 (April 12 1820) | Event | Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece. | |
April 12th, 1776 (April 12 1776) | Event | The Provincial Congress authorizes delegates to the Second Continental Congress to vote for independence by issuing the Halifax Resolves. | |
April 12th, 1633 (April 12 1633) | Event | The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins. | Galileo Galilei Quotes |
April 12th, 1606 (April 12 1606) | Event | The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain. | |
April 12th, 1557 (April 12 1557) | Event | Cuenca is founded in Ecuador. | |
April 12th, 0467 (April 12 0467) | Event | Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. | |