About April 12
April 12, 2024 is the 103rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 292 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 12
- 467 –Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1606 –The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
- 1633 –The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.
- 1831 –Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the 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.
- 1927 –April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
- 1934 –The U.S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
- 1934 –The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
- 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.
- 1955 –The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
- 1970 –Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
- 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.
- 1992 –The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park’s name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
- 1994 –Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
- 1999 –US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving “intentionally false statements” in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
- 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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