About April 12

April 12, 2021 is the 102nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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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 295 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.
  • 1204 –
    The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
  • 1557 –
    Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.
  • 1606 –
    The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
  • 1861 –
    American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
  • 1865 –
    American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • 1877 –
    The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
  • 1910 –
    The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • 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.
  • 1935 –
    First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
  • 1961 –
    The Russian (Soviet) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
  • 1968 –
    Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2009 –
    Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their official currency.
  • 2010 –
    A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.

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