WillDekkard
04-12-2010, 03:47 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- April 12th
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* 467 Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 1204 The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach Constantinople walls and enter the city, which completely occupy the next day.
* 1557 Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.
* 1606 The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
* 1633 The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.
* 1776 American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
* 1820 Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
* 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: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
* 1865 American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
* 1877 The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
* 1917 World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
* 1927 April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the CPC members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
* 1934 The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, US.
* 1934 The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
* 1935 First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
* 1937 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at Rugby, England.
* 1945 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
* 1955 The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
* 1961 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
* 1963 The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
* 1968 Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
* 1980 Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'ιtat, ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession.
* 1980 Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland.
* 1981 The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.
* 1990 Jim Gary's Twentieth Century Dinosaurs exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
* 1992 The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park's name were subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
* 1994 Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
* 1998 An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
* 1999 US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
* 2002 Pedro Carmona becomes interim President of Venezuela during the military coup against Hugo Chαvez.
* 2002 A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
* 2007 A suicide bomber penetrated the Green Zone and detonated in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
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- April 12th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 467 Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 1204 The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach Constantinople walls and enter the city, which completely occupy the next day.
* 1557 Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.
* 1606 The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
* 1633 The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.
* 1776 American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
* 1820 Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
* 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: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
* 1865 American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
* 1877 The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
* 1917 World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
* 1927 April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the CPC members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
* 1934 The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, US.
* 1934 The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
* 1935 First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
* 1937 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at Rugby, England.
* 1945 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
* 1955 The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
* 1961 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
* 1963 The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
* 1968 Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
* 1980 Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'ιtat, ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession.
* 1980 Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland.
* 1981 The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.
* 1990 Jim Gary's Twentieth Century Dinosaurs exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
* 1992 The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park's name were subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
* 1994 Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
* 1998 An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
* 1999 US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
* 2002 Pedro Carmona becomes interim President of Venezuela during the military coup against Hugo Chαvez.
* 2002 A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
* 2007 A suicide bomber penetrated the Green Zone and detonated in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
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