April 12

Tuesday 12, 2005:

In Canada, a motion by the opposition Conservative Party to kill legislation opening the door for legalized same sex marriage is defeated 164-132.

Friday 12, 2002:

Coup d'Etat against Hugo Chávez in Venezuela

Sunday 12, 1998:

Catastrophical earthquake in Slovenia in Poso?je 5,6 on the Richter scale.

Tuesday 12, 1994:

Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.

Sunday 12, 1992:

EuroDisney opens in Marne-la-Vallee, France.

Thursday 12, 1990:

Christian Bernard, F.R.C., becomes Imperator of AMORC

Sunday 12, 1981:

1989 - T.V Show Fast Forward starts on The ATN-7 Network (Australia)

Saturday 12, 1980:

Terry Fox began his trans-Canada marathon to raise money for cancer research (Marathon of Hope) by dipping his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean at St. John's, Newfoundland, aiming to dip it again in the Pacific Ocean at Vancouver, British Columbia.

Saturday 12, 1975:

Khmer Rouge troops capture Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Friday 12, 1968:

Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah

Wednesday 12, 1961:

Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly in space.

Tuesday 12, 1955:

1955 - The polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk is declared safe and effective.

Monday 12, 1954:

Bill Haley and His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City. Initially unsuccessful, the recording would help launch the Rock and Roll revolution a year later.

Friday 12, 1946:

Syria gains independence from France

Thursday 12, 1945:

President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies and Harry S. Truman is inaugurated as the 33rd President of the United States.

Monday 12, 1937:

Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at the British Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby, England

Monday 12, 1926:

By a vote of 45 to 41, the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and seats Daniel F. Steck, after Brookhart had already served for over one year.

Thursday 12, 1923:

Kandersteg International Scout Centre came into existence.

Thursday 12, 1877:

The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

Wednesday 12, 1865:

American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama falls to the Union Army

Tuesday 12, 1864:

American Civil War: Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces under General Nathan Bedford Forrest kill most of the African American soldiers who had surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee

Friday 12, 1861:

American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina

Tuesday 12, 1633:

The formal interrogation by the Inquisition of Galileo Galilei begins.

Wednesday 12, 1606:

The Union Flag is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.

Tuesday 12, 467:

Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire

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