Information about April 12
April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). There are 263 days remaining. Events * 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire * 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople * 1633 - Galileo is convicted of heresy * 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 all 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 * 1945 - Harry S. Truman is inaugurated as the 33rd President of the United States. * 1946 - Syria gains independence from France * 1961 - Yuri Gagarin is the first man in 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 - Columbia 1 mission, the first Space Shuttle launch * 1992 - Euro Disney opens in Marne-la-Vallee, France Births * 599 BC - Mahavira, founder of Jainism * 1777 - Henry Clay, American statesman and orator (+ 1852) * 1832 - Hugo Adolph Steinheil, optician (+ 1893) * 1867- Sindo Garay, Cuban singer and musician (+ 1968) * 1884 - Otto Meyerhof, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1922) (+ 1951) * 1888 - Cecil Kimber, founder of MG * 1895 - Lily Pons, opera soprano * 1903 - Sally Rand, fan dancer * 1904 - Paul Dahlke, actor (+ 1984) * 1913 - Lionel Hamptom, musician * 1916 - Beverly Cleary, writer * 1922 - Tiny Tim, musician (+ 1996) * 1933 - Montserrat CaballŽ, opera singer * 1939 - Alan Ayckbourn, writer * 1940 - Herbie Hancock, musician * 1944 - John Kay, of Steppenwolf * 1947 - David Letterman, talk show host * 1947 - Tom Clancy, author * 1948 - Joschka Fischer, foreign minister of Germany * 1949 - Scott Turow, writer * 1950 - David Cassidy, singer, actor * 1956 - Herbert Gršnemeyer, singer, pianist and actor * 1956 - Andy Garcia, actor * 1957 - Vince Gill, country musician * 1971 - Shannen Doherty, actress * 1976 - Robert Brown, generalist * 1979 - Claire Danes, actress Deaths * 65 - Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher, dramatist, statesman * 1912 - Clara Barton, nurse and Red Cross advocate * 1938 - Feodor Chaliapin, operatic bass * 1945 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States * 1962 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Indian politician and engineer, dies at 101 * 1975 - Josephine Baker, dancer * 1981 - Joe Louis, boxer * 1988 - Alan Paton, novelist * 1989 - Sugar Ray Robinson, multiple time world champion boxer * 1989 - Abbie Hoffman, radical leader * 2001 - Harvey Ball, inventor of the Smiley * 2003 - Cecil H. Green, Texas Instruments Founder, dies at 102 Holidays and observances * The Roman holiday of Cerealia begins.
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