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Historical Events on April 12

  • Halifax Resolves

    1776

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

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

    1861

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

  • Union (American Civil War)

    1865

    American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.

  • South African Republic

    1877

    The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

  • Battle of Vimy Ridge

    1917

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

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    1945

    U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes President upon Roosevelt's death.

  • Vostok 1

    1961

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

  • Mahane Yehuda Market

    2002

    A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104.

  • Zimbabwean dollar

    2009

    Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.

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