Tuesday, April 12, 2022

History for April 12

History for April 12 - On-This-Day.com
Tom Clancy 1947 - Author
  • 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople.
  • 1782 - The British navy won its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off Dominica.
  • 1861 - Fort Sumter was shelled by Confederacy, starting America's Civil War.
  • 1892 - Voters in Lockport, New York, became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines.
  • 1911 - Pierre Prier completed the first non-stop London-Paris flight in three hours and 56 minutes.
  • 1945 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S Truman became president.
  • 1961 - Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth.
  • 1993 - NATO began enforcing a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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