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April 12 is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 263 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 240 – ...
Chinese CommunistRevolution. Mao Zedong and leading revolutionaries proclaim the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. The Shanghai massacre of 12 April 1927, the April 12 Purge or the April 12 Incident as it is commonly known in China, was the violent suppression of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organizations and leftist elements in ...
1955 - The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective. 1968 - Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah. Columbia launching during STS-1. 1981 - Human spaceflight: The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission. 1990 - opening of Jim Gary's Twentieth Century Dinosaurs exhibition, the ...
On the morning of April 12, 2022, a mass shooting was committed on a northbound N train on the New York City Subway in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York, United States. At approximately 8:24 a.m. EDT, a 62-year-old Black nationalist [ 4 ][ 5 ] Frank Robert James [ 2 ] put on a gas mask, threw two smoke grenades, and fired a handgun 33 times.
1949 →. The first inauguration of Harry S. Truman as the 33rd president of the United States was held at 7:09 pm on Thursday, April 12, 1945, at the Cabinet Room inside the White House in Washington, D.C., following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt earlier that day. The inauguration—the seventh non-scheduled, extraordinary ...
v. t. e. The Battle of Fort Sumter (also the Attack on Fort Sumter or the Fall of Fort Sumter) (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina, by the South Carolina militia. It ended with the surrender of the fort by the United States Army, beginning the American Civil War.
April 7, 1945 (Saturday) Operation Ten-Go: The Japanese battleship Yamato and nine other warships launched a suicide attack on Allied forces engaged in the Battle of Okinawa. Yamato was bombed, torpedoed and sunk by U.S. Navy aircraft south of Kyushu with the loss of 2,055 of 2,332 crew. Five other Japanese warships were sunk by American aircraft.
The Halifax Resolves was a name later given to the resolution adopted by the North Carolina Provincial Congress on April 12, 1776. The adoption of the resolution was the first official action in the American Colonies calling for independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution. The Halifax Resolves helped pave the way for the ...