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The following events took place on April 12. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 43 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 238

  Gordian II loses the Battle of Carthage against the Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus Thrax and is killed. Gordian I, his father, commits suicide.
• 240

  Shapur I is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire.
• 467

  Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 627

  King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of York.
• 1204

  The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
• 1606

  The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
• 1776

  American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
• 1820

  Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
• 1831

  Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
• 1861

  American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
• 1862

  American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw).
• 1864

  American Civil War: The Battle of Fort Pillow: 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.
• 1910

  SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
• 1917

  World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
• 1927

  Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
• 1927

  Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
• 1928

  The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
• 1934

  The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
• 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.
• 1937

  Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
• 1945

  U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; Vice President Harry Truman, becomes President upon Roosevelt’s death.
• 1945

  The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reached Tangermünde—only 50 miles from Berlin.
• 1955

  The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
• 1961

  The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1.
• 1963

  The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
• 1970

  Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
• 1980

  Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.

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