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12 Apr 1065
Pilgrims under bishop Gunther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem
12 Apr 1204
4th Crusade occupies & plunders Constantinople
12 Apr 1229
Queen Blanche of Castile & Earl Raymond VII of Toulouse sign peace
12 Apr 1545
French King Francois I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed
12 Apr 1606
England adopts the Union Flag replaced in 1801 by current Union Flag the Union Jack
12 Apr 1654
Ordinance of Union between England and Scotland passed by the Council of State
12 Apr 1713
Dutch State-Gen signs peace with France Netherlands loses Orange Princedom
12 Apr 1770
British parliament repeals the Townshend Revenue Acts which had fueled opposition to British rule in colonial America
12 Apr 1776
Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina
12 Apr 1811
1st US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment Washington
12 Apr 1820
Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
12 Apr 1844
Texan envoys sign Treaty of Annexation with the United States
12 Apr 1858
1st US billiards championship Michael J Phelan wins in Detroit
12 Apr 1859
Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of San Francisco incorporates
12 Apr 1861
Fort Sumter in South Carolina is attacked by the Confederacy beginning the American Civil War
12 Apr 1862
James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw Georgia
12 Apr 1869
North Carolina legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan Law
12 Apr 1883
French troops under lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal
12 Apr 1887
Henrik Ibsens Rosmersholm premieres in Oslo
12 Apr 1892
George C Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter
12 Apr 1893
Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi
12 Apr 1894
British & Belgian secret accord on dividing Central Africa
12 Apr 1896
Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (530 in Athens)
12 Apr 1898
US Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay to Navy
12 Apr 1900
The US Congress passes the Foraker Act establishing Puerto Rico as an unincorporated territory (effective 1 May)
12 Apr 1907
Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer resigns
12 Apr 1907
In Switzerland parliament passes a new army bill reorganizing the nations forces into a standing militia with training required for all males
12 Apr 1908
Fire makes 17000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts
12 Apr 1909
Philadelphias Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens
12 Apr 1911
1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m)
12 Apr 1916
Irish nationalist activist and poet Roger Casement boards submarine U-19 at Wilmshaven Germany bound for a rendezvous with the Aud at Tralee
12 Apr 1917
Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th St NYC (Demolished 1982)
12 Apr 1917
Domenico Scarlatti & Jeab Cocteaus ballet premieres in Rome
12 Apr 1919
British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages
12 Apr 1930
4th Test Cricket WI v England ends in a draw after nine days
12 Apr 1930
Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days
12 Apr 1932
Emmanuel Chabriers & Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo
12 Apr 1934
Second highest ever wind speed of 372 kmh (231 mph) recorded on Mt Washington
12 Apr 1934
The US Auto-Lite Strike begins culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6000 strikers and picketers.
12 Apr 1935
Germany prohibits publishing not-Arian writers
12 Apr 1935
Royal Proclamation sets design of Canadas new Jubilee Silver Dollar
12 Apr 1937
Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at Rugby England.
12 Apr 1938
1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (NY)
12 Apr 1938
Stanley Cup Final Chicago Stadium Chicago IL Chicago Black Hawks beat Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 for a 3-1 series win only team to win Cup with losing regular season record
12 Apr 1940
NFL cuts clipping penalty from 25 yards to 15 yards
12 Apr 1941
Stanley Cup Final Olympia Stadium Detroit MI Boston Bruins defeat Detroit Red Wings 3-1 for a 4-0 series sweep
12 Apr 1942
Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
12 Apr 1944
Lillian Hellmans Searching Wind premieres in NYC
12 Apr 1945
Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork Netherlands
12 Apr 1951
Israeli Knesset officially designates April 13 as Holocaust Day
12 Apr 1952
Salaheddine Baccouche forms Tunisian government
12 Apr 1953
KFDX TV channel 3 in Wichita Falls TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
12 Apr 1953
Keizo Yamada runs fastest marathon to date at Boston
12 Apr 1954
18th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Sam Snead wins his 3rd and final Masters by 1 stroke in an 18-hole playoff with Ben Hogan
12 Apr 1965
1st NL game at Houstons Astrodome (Phillies beat Astros 2-0)
12 Apr 1954
8th NBA Championship Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals 4 games to 3
12 Apr 1955
1st game in KC KC As beat Detroit Tigers 6-2
12 Apr 1956
S.W.R.D. Bandaranaikes government takes office in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
12 Apr 1957
Jim Spalding set a 2088 pin nine-game bowling record
12 Apr 1958
12th NBA Championship St Louis Hawks beat Bost Celtics 4 games to 2
12 Apr 1959
France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria
12 Apr 1960
Bill Veeck & Chicago Comiskey Park debuts Exploding Scoreboard
12 Apr 1962
San Mateo County withdraws from BART (San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit) district
12 Apr 1963
Police in Birmingham Alabama use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators
12 Apr 1964
28th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Arnold Palmer wins by 6 shots from Dave Marr and Jack Nicklaus to become the first 4-time winner of the Masters his 7th and final major victory
12 Apr 1966
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium opens Pirates beat Braves 3-2
12 Apr 1966
Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck
12 Apr 1969
Wales beats England 30-9 at the National Stadium Cardiff to clinch their 16th Five Nations Rugby Championship and 11th Triple Crown
12 Apr 1975
Linda Ronstadt releases When Will I Be Loved
12 Apr 1975
Six Catholic civilians are killed in a Ulster Volunteer Force gun and grenade attack on Strand Bar in Belfast North Ireland
12 Apr 1976
India set 403 to win by WI They get them 6 wkts 7 overs spare
12 Apr 1978
Gyorgy Ligetis opera Le Grand Macabre premieres in Stockholm
12 Apr 1980
BCMA Black Consciousness Movement of Azania forms
12 Apr 1980
Milwaukee beats Boston Red Sox 18-1 (Cooper & Money hit grand slams)
12 Apr 1980
US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow Olympic games
12 Apr 1980
Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup detat ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession.
12 Apr 1980
Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope at St. Johns Newfoundland
12 Apr 1981
45th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Tom Watson wins his second green jacket and 5th major title by 2 strokes over Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller
12 Apr 1981
Maiden voyage Space Transit System-space shuttle Columbia launched
12 Apr 1982
3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot
12 Apr 1983
Harold Washington elected Chicagos 1st black mayor
12 Apr 1985
16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
12 Apr 1986
20000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines
12 Apr 1987
51st US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Larry Mize chips-in from 140 feet for an improbable birdie 3 on the 2nd playoff hole to beat Greg Norman for his only major title
12 Apr 1987
Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (21055)
12 Apr 1987
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
12 Apr 1987
CBS premiere of fact-based World War II drama Escape from Sobibor
12 Apr 1988
Devils 4-2 over Islanders-Devils lead 3-2 in 1st round
12 Apr 1988
Frank Robinson replaces Cal Ripkin as manager of Baltimore Orioles
12 Apr 1988
Harvard University patents a genetically engineered mouse (1st for animal life)
12 Apr 1988
Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs California
12 Apr 1989
3rd Soul Train Music Awards Anita Baker Bobby Brown win
12 Apr 1990
H. J. Heinz Chicken of the Sea and Bumble Bee Seafood say they wouldnt buy tuna caught in nets that trap dolphins
12 Apr 1990
Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers
12 Apr 1990
1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament acknowledges responsibility for the Holocaust and asks for forgiveness
12 Apr 1991
Nepalese Congress party wins general elections
12 Apr 1991
US announces closing of 31 major US military bases
12 Apr 1992
Streetcar Named Desire opens at Ethel Barrymore NYC for 137 performances
12 Apr 1992
2nd lowest NBA scoring game - Detroit Piston 72 NY Knicks 61
12 Apr 1992
56th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Fred Couples wins his only major title 2 strokes ahead of 1976 champion Raymond Floyd
12 Apr 1992
Euro Disney (Disneyland Paris) opens in Marne-la-Vallee France
12 Apr 1992
Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of UN
12 Apr 1992
NY Mets lose 1st 3 home games for 1st time since 1962
12 Apr 1994
Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
12 Apr 1998
62nd US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Mark OMeara claims his first major title with a 20-foot birdie putt on the final hole to win by 1 stroke from David Duval and Fred Couples
12 Apr 1998
An earthquake in Slovenia measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
12 Apr 2002
Palestinian suicide bomber (female) kills 7 and injures 104 (among them 9 Arabs) at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.
12 Apr 2009
U.S. Navy rescues captain Richard Phillips killing three pirates and capturing a fourth
12 Apr 2009
73rd US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC ngel Cabrera wins his 2nd major title in a playoff with Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry Cabrera first Masters champion from Argentina and South America
12 Apr 2010
A train derailed near Merano Italy after running into a landslide causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
12 Apr 2012
A ceasefire in the 2011- Syrian uprising comes into effect
12 Apr 2012
Bodleian Oxford University and Vatican libraries announce over 1.5 million pages of ancient texts will be made available across the internet
12 Apr 2012
Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president
12 Apr 2013
11 people are killed and 30 are injured in mosque attacks across Iraq
12 Apr 2013
A man-made 32-foot and 60 tonne monument that is dates around 2000 BC is discovered in the Sea of Galilee
12 Apr 2014
The new drug ABT-450 with a 90-95% success rate for treating Hepatitis C is announced
12 Apr 2015
79th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Jordan Spieth leads wire-to-wire to win his 1st major title by 4 strokes from Phil Mickelson and Justin Rose
12 Apr 1857
Gustave Flauberts novel Madame Bovary published
12 Apr 1966
Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck an accident which leaves him with long-lasting health issues
12 Apr 2019
Melbourne captain Cameron Smith becomes highest point scorer in Australian Rugby League history 49th minute penalty in Storms 18-12 win over North Queensland in Townsville takes him to 2420 Hazem El Masri 2418
12 Apr 1204
4th Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople
12 Apr 1909
Philadelphias Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens Athletics win 81 against Boston Red Sox
12 Apr 1993
American Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec) at Sheffield England
12 Apr 2020
OPEC and other major oil companies agree to the largest-ever drop in production to stabilize world prices
12 Apr 2020
Huge storm system produces more than 40 tornadoes in the US from Texas to South Carolina killing 32 people across six states
12 Apr 1606
England adopts the Union Flag replaced in 1801 by current Union Flag also known as the Union Jack
12 Apr 1857
French novelist Gustave Flauberts first novel and masterpiece Madame Bovary is published in book form
12 Apr 1893
Massacre of Hoornkrans Curt von Franois colonial Governor of German South West Africa (now Nambia) leads attack by 225 Schutztruppe soldiers on Nama leader Hendrik Witboois headquarters at Hoornkrans shelling of the village causes tremendous civilian casualties. Witbooi escapes and wages several months of guerrilla warfare against the German forces.
12 Apr 1908
Fire at the Boston Blacking Company (producer of leather dyes) spreads by high wind kills 19 and makes 17000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts
12 Apr 1963
Beatles third single From Me To You is released in UK
12 Apr 1982
American composer Roger Sessions receives Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Concerto for Orchestra
12 Apr 1992
2nd lowest NBA scoring game - Detroit Pistons 72 NY Knicks 61
12 Apr 1992
MLB Boston Red Sox pitcher Matt Young no-hits Cleveland Indians but loses 2-1
12 Apr 2021
Great Britain loosens its COVID-19 restrictions opening pubs and shops after 175 days the worlds longest period of restrictions
12 Apr 2021
Worst frost conditions in half a century will affect 80% of French vineyards according to industry officials [1]
12 Apr 1820
Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria a secret organization founded in Odessa to overthrow Ottoman rule of Greece
12 Apr 1907
Belgium government of Paul Smet de Naeyer resigns
12 Apr 1909
Philadelphias Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) baseballs first steel and concrete stadium opens Athletics win 8-1 against Boston Red Sox
12 Apr 1931
Joe McCarthy debuts as New York Yankees manager
12 Apr 1933
US Navy comissions Air Station Sunnyvale (later renamed NAS Moffatt Field) in Santa Clara county California (at the southern end of San Francisco Bay)
12 Apr 1959
13th Tony Awards J.B. (play) & Redhead (musical) win
12 Apr 1965
1st regular season MLB game at Houston Astrodome visiting Philadelphia Phillies beat Astros 2-0
12 Apr 1980
Canadian one-legged distance runner Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope attempt to cross the country at St. Johns Newfoundland
12 Apr 1980
Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup detat killing President William Talbert and 27 others ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession
12 Apr 2022
Global COVID-19 known cases pass 500 million with 5.1 billion (66%) having received at least one vaccine shot [1]
12 Apr 2022
Terrorist attack on the New York subway injures 26 10 by gunfire with the suspect arrested a day later [1]
12 Apr 1204
The Fourth Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople
12 Apr 1648
University of Harderwijk opens in the Netherlands
12 Apr 1811
The first US colonists on the Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment Washington
12 Apr 1876
Canadas parliament passes the Indian Act to administer status and lands of First Nations People - primarily to assimilate them [1]
12 Apr 1893
Massacre of Hoornkrans Curt von Franois colonial Governor of German South West Africa (now Nambia) leads attack by 225 Schutztruppe soldiers on Nama leader Hendrik Witboois headquarters at Hoornkrans shelling of the village causes tremendous civilian casualties. Witbooi escapes and wages several months of guerrilla warfare against the German forces. [1]
12 Apr 1933
US Navy commissions Air Station Sunnyvale (later renamed NAS Moffatt Field) in Santa Clara county California (at the southern end of San Francisco Bay)
12 Apr 1938
1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (New York)
12 Apr 1945
WWII British Royal Navy captures German U-boat U-1024 in the Irish it sinks while being towed the next day
12 Apr 2023
Ghana is the first country to approve a new vaccine for Malaria the Mosquirix RTSS made at Oxford University. The first time a major new vaccine is first approved in Africa. [1]
12 Apr 2023
New York City appoints it first-ever rat czar as Kathleen Corradi becomes the citys first-ever director of rat mitigation [1]
12 Apr 2023
US Environmental Protection Agency proposes landmark set of pollution regulations to drive down greenhouse-gas emissions including electric vehicles making up 67% of new passenger-car sales by 2032 [1]
12 Apr 1911
First non-stop London-Paris flight by Pierre Prier in 3 hours and 56 minutes
12 Apr 1917
Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th Street NYC demolished in 1982
12 Apr 1935
Germany prohibits publishing of works by not-Aryan writers
12 Apr 1937
Engineer Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft in Rugby England
12 Apr 1938
First US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses in New York
12 Apr 1980
US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow summer Olympics
12 Apr 1988
Harvard University patents a genetically engineered mouse (first for animal life)
12 Apr 2023
Ghana is the first country to approve a new vaccine for malaria Mosquirix (RTSS) developed at Oxford University. It is the first major vaccine approved first in Africa. [1]
12 Apr 1922
The third manslaughter trial against filmmaker Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle involving the death of actress Virginia Rappe ends with a unanimous not guilty jury acquittal
12 Apr 1954
Atlantic Records releases Big Joe Turner single Shake Rattle & Roll tops the R&B charts and reaches 22 on the pop charts before being covered by Bill Haley
12 Apr 1991
Amantes (Lovers A True Story) directed by Vicente Aranda and starring Victoria Abril and Jorge Sanz premieres in Spain
12 Apr 2013
A man-made 32-foot 60-tonne monument dating to around 2000 BCE is discovered in the Sea of Galilee