Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 12

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  Space Shuttle Columbia
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  Space Shuttle Columbia launching
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  Union Flag, 1606 version
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  Edwin of Northumbria
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  Terry Fox
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  Yuri Gagarin
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  Bombardment of Fort Sumter
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  SMS Zrínyi
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  The Massacre at Chios by Eugène Delacroix
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  NATO F-15 fighter aircraft during Operation Deny Flight

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240 – Shapur I was crowned the shahanshah ('king of kings') of the Sasanian Empire, the last Iranian empire before the rise of Islam.	refimprove, unreferenced section
467 – Anthemius was proclaimed Western Roman Emperor at the third or twelfth mile from Rome.	refimprove section
1606 – A royal decree established the Union Jack to symbolise the Union of the Crowns, merging the designs of the flag of England and the flag of Scotland.	refimprove sections
1782 – American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeated a French fleet at the Battle of the Saintes, forcing the latter to abandon a planned invasion of Jamaica.	unreferenced section
1927 – Chinese Civil War: A large-scale purge of Chinese communists from the nationalist Kuomintang began in Shanghai.	refimprove section
1981 – Columbia, the first spaceworthy space shuttle, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its first flight.	refimprove section
1990 – Jim Gary became the only sculptor to present a solo show at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., featuring his trademark dinosaur sculptures made of automobile parts.	refimprove section
1992 – Disneyland Paris, the first Walt Disney park in Europe, opened in the Paris suburb of Marne-la-Vallée.	refimprove section
1994 – Husband-and-wife law partners Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel posted the first massive commercial spam on Usenet.	citation-needed tags
2007 – The canteen of the Council of Representatives of Iraq building was attacked by a suicide bomber, killing one Member of Parliament and wounding 23 other people.	citation-needed tags
Alan Paton |d|1988|	citations needed

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• 1776 – American Revolution: The North Carolina Provincial Congress passed the Halifax Resolves, the first official action in the American colonies calling for independence from Great Britain.
• 1807 – The Froberg mutiny of Greek and Albanian troops in British service ended with the explosion of the gunpowder magazine at Fort Ricasoli, Malta.
• 1822 – Greek War of Independence: Ottoman troops began a massacre of tens of thousands of Greeks (depicted) on the island of Chios.
• 1831 – The Broughton Suspension Bridge near Manchester, England, collapsed reportedly because of mechanical resonance induced by troops marching in step across it.
• 1861 – Confederate forces began a bombardment of Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, starting the American Civil War.
• 1961 – Aboard Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin performed the first human spaceflight, completing one orbit of Earth in 108 minutes.
• 1973 – About 1,700 gravediggers in New York City began a 12-week strike, causing a delay in the burial of roughly 1,400 bodies in the city.
• 1980 – Canadian athlete Terry Fox embarked on an east-to-west "Marathon of Hope" from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a prosthetic leg to raise funds for cancer research.
• 1983 – Harold Washington was elected as the first African-American mayor of Chicago.
• 1993 – Bosnian War: NATO forces began Operation Deny Flight (aircraft pictured) to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered by the United Nations Security Council.
• 2012 – The Guinea-Bissau military seized control in a coup amid a presidential election, later handing power to a transitional administration under Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo.
• 2013 – Four Chadian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing by jihadist rebels in Kidal, Mali.
• Born/died: | Richeza of Poland, Queen of Sweden |b|1116| Charles VII of Sweden |d|1167| Margaret of Bourbon, Queen of Navarre |d|1256| George N. Briggs |b|1796| Alexander Ostrovsky |b|1823| Richard Mohun |b|1864| Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood |d|1866| Addie Joss |b|1880| Tenby Davies |b|1884| Imogen Holst |b|1907| Keiko Fukuda |b|1913| Beverly Cleary |b|1916| Jane Withers |b|1926| Sydney Allard |d|1966| Abdullah Abu Bakar |b|1980| Abbie Hoffman |d|1989| Xin Fengxia |d|1998 Karim Fakhrawi |d|2011

Notes

• Disney's Animal Kingdom appears on April 22, so Disneyland Paris should not be used in the same year.

April 12: First day of Passover (Judaism, 2025); Cosmonautics Day in Russia; Yuri's Night Template:Main page image/OTD

• 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria was baptised by Bishop Paulinus of York.
• 1204 – Troops of the Fourth Crusade entered Constantinople and began a sack of the city, temporarily dissolving the Byzantine Empire.
• 1910 – Template:Ship, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched in Trieste.
• 1980 – Samuel Doe took control of Liberia in a coup d'état, overthrowing President William Tolbert and ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession.
• 2014 – A fire broke out near Valparaíso, Chile, eventually destroying at least 2,500 homes and leaving approximately 11,000 people homeless (damage pictured).