April 12
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April 12 is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining after April 12 until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 467 – Anthemius becomes Emperor of the West Roman Empire.
- 1557 – The city of Cuenca, in Ecuador, is founded.
- 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of the two united Kingdoms of Scotland and England.
- 1633 – Galileo Galilei's trial before the inquisition begins.
- 1861 – The American Civil War began when Fort Sumter was attacked.
- 1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama falls to the Union Army.
- 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes Transvaal.
- 1934 – The strongest wind gust, outside of Antarctica or not within a tornado, is measured at Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, at 231 miles per hour (372 kilometres per hour).
- 1937 – Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine to power an aircraft.
- 1945 – US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. Harry S. Truman is sworn in as his successor.
- 1954 – Bill Haley and His Comets record their hit song Rock Around the Clock.
- 1961 – Yuri Gagarin is the first cosmonaut in space, sent by the U.S.S.R.
- 1980 – Terry Fox starts his Marathon of Hope.
- 1980 – In Liberia, Samuel K. Doe takes power in a coup, in which President William Tolbert is killed.
- 1981 – The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched.
- 1992 – Disneyland Paris opens, as Euro Disneyland.
- 1998 – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Slovenia.
- 2002 – A female suicide bomber detonates herself in Jerusalem, killing 7 people and injuring 104.
- 2007 – A suicide bomber attacks the Iraqi parliament.
- 2009 – Zimbabwe abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.
[change] Births
- 599 BC – Mahavira, Indian founder of Jainism (d. 527 BC)
- 812 – Muhammad at-Taqi, Arabian Shia Imam (d. 835)
- 1484 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
- 1500 – Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (d. 1574)
- 1526 – Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585)
- 1550 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604)
- 1577 – King Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1648)
- 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796)
- 1722 – Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (d. 1793)
- 1724 – Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
- 1726 – Charles Burney, English music historian (d. 1814)
- 1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836)
- 1777 – Henry Clay, American statesman and five-time Presidential candidate (d. 1852)
- 1799 – Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855)
- 1823 – Alexandr Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (d. 1886)
- 1839 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (d. 1888)
- 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer (d. 1937)
- 1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (d. 1922)
- 1871 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (d. 1941)
- 1884 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German doctor, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1951)
- 1887 – Harold Lockwood, American silent film actor (d. 1918)
- 1888 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (d. 1964)
- 1892 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1940)
- 1893 – Robert Harron, American actor (d. 1920)
- 1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, President of Portugal (d. 1964)
- 1898 – Lily Pons, American soprano (d. 1976)
- 1902 – Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)
- 1903 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (d. 1994)
- 1914 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (d. 2010)
- 1923 – Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Raymond Barre, Prime Minister of France (d. 2007)
- 1925 – Oliver Postgate, British animator, puppetteer and writer (d. 2008)
- 1928 – Hardy Krueger, German actor
- 1929 – Luis Vigoreaux, Puerto Rican TV and radio personality (d. 1983)
- 1932 – Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
- 1933 – Montserrat Caballe, Catalan-Spanish operatic soprano
- 1936 – Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1940 – Enayat Michael Ali, Trinidadian professional cricketer
- 1940 – Herbie Hancock, American musician
- 1941 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (d. 1993)
- 1942 – Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa
- 1945 – Lee Jong-Wook, South Korean Director-General of the WHO (d. 2006)
- 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, former Secretary-General of NATO
- 1946 – Ed O'Neill, actor
- 1947 – David Letterman, American comedian and TV host
- 1947 – Tom Clancy, American author
- 1948 – Joschka Fischer, German politician
- 1948 – Marcello Lippi, Italian football manager
- 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, British television presenter (d. 2008)
- 1950 – Joyce Banda, President of Malawi
- 1950 – David Cassidy, American singer and actor
- 1950 – Maia Danziger, American actress
- 1954 – Jon Krakauer, American author and mountaineer
- 1955 – Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson, Icelandic writer
- 1956 – Andy Garcia, American actor
- 1956 – Herbert Groenemeyer, German singer and actor
- 1956 – Walter Salles, Brazilian film director
- 1957 – Vince Gill, American Country singer
- 1961 – Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician
- 1968 – Adam Graves, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970 – Nick Hexum, singer and guitarist
- 1971 – Nicholas Brendon, actor
- 1971 – Shannen Doherty, American actress
- 1973 – Christian Panucci, Italian footballer
- 1974 – Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1977 – Giovanny Espinoza, Ecuadorean footballer
- 1978 – Guy Berryman, British musician (Coldplay)
- 1979 – Claire Danes, actress
- 1980 – Mateja Kezman, Serbian footballer
- 1980 – Brian McFadden, Irish singer (Westlife)
- 1982 – Riley Smith, model and actor
- 1987 – Brendon Urie, American singer of Panic! at the Disco
- 1994 – Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
- 2000 – Suzanna von Nathusius, Polish actress
[change] Deaths
- 45 BC – Gnaeus Pompeius, Roman general
- 65 – Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist
- 238 – Gordian I, Roman Emperor
- 238 – Gordian II, Roman heir
- 1555 – Juana of Castile, wife of Philip I of Castile (b. 1479)
- 1782 – Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
- 1817 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (b. 1730)
- 1912 – Clara Barton, American nurse (b. 1821)
- 1945 – Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
- 1968 – Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer (b. 1899)
- 1971 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist (b. 1895)
- 1980 – William Tolbert, President of Liberia (b. 1913)
- 1981 – Joe Louis, American boxer (b. 1914)
- 1989 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (b. 1921)
- 1999 – Boxcar Willie, American musician (b. 1949)
- 2006 – Rajkumar, Indian film actor and singer (b. 1929)
- 2008 – Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress (b. 1952)
- 2010 – Werner Schroeter, German film director (b. 1945)
[change] Observances
- Cosmonauts' Day (Russia), celebrating Yuri Gagarin's space flight in 1961
