April 12th in History
April 12th in History
- 1204: Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople Or was it Instanbul?
- 1606: England adopts the Union Jack as its flag God save the king
- 1861: Fort Sumter, SC is shelled by Confederacy, starting the Civil War The South is rising
- 1961: Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes person to orbit Earth UFO theorists start talking about government conspiracies
- 1981: First space shuttle (Columbia) launched Americans prove to Russians that theirs is better because it's recyclable
April 12th birthdays
- 1823: Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Russian playwright
- 1883: Imogen Cunningham, American photographer
- 1923: Maria Callas, Italian opera singer
- 1956: Andy Garcia, American actor