A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this
day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military,
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what happened today in history.
| 1204 |
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The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople. |
| 1606 |
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England adopts the Union Jack as its flag. |
| 1770 |
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Parliament repeals the Townsend Acts. |
| 1782 |
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The British navy wins its only naval
engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the
Battle of Saints, off Dominica. |
| 1811 |
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The first colonists arrive at Cape Disappointment, Washington. |
| 1861 |
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Fort Sumter is shelled by the Confederacy, starting America’s Civil War. |
| 1864 |
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Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, in Tennessee. |
| 1877 |
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The first catcher’s mask is used in a baseball game. |
| 1911 |
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Pierre Prier completes the first non-stop London-Paris flight in three hours and 56 minutes. |
| 1916 |
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American cavalrymen and Mexican bandit troops clash at Parral, Mexico. |
| 1927 |
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The British Cabinet comes out in favor of voting rights for women. |
| 1944 |
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The U.S. Twentieth Air Force is activated to begin the strategic bombing of Japan. |
| 1945 |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies at Warm Spring, Georgia. Harry S. Truman becomes president. |
| 1954 |
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Bill Haley records “Rock Around the Clock.” |
| 1955 |
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Dr. Jonas Salk’s discovery of a polio vaccine is announced. |
| 1961 |
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Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes first man to orbit the Earth. |
| 1963 |
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Police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama. |
| 1966 |
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Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American major league umpire. |
| 1983 |
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Harold Washington is elected the first black mayor of Chicago. |
| Born on April 12 |
| 1777 |
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Henry Clay, the “Great Compromiser”, American politician and statesman who ran unsuccessfully for president three times. |
| 1791 |
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Francis Preston Blair, Washington Globe newspaper editor. |
| 1838 |
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John Shaw Billings, American librarian, army physician. |
| 1949 |
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Scott Turow, writer and attorney. |
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