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April 12: First day of Passover (Judaism, 2025); Third Month Fair begins in southwest China (2025); Cosmonautics Day in Russia; Yuri's Night NATO F-15 fighter aircraft during Operation Deny Flight 1807 – The Froberg mutiny of Greek and Albanian troops in British service ended with the explosion of the gunpowder magazine at Fort Ricasoli , Malta.
April 12 is the 102nd day of the year ... third deadliest tornado in Texas history. ... Historical Events on April 12
Armed conflicts and attacks. Mali war. The village of Tidermène is captured by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara. (Defense Post) Business and economy. NPR announces that it will no longer use Twitter after the social media site labeled it and the BBC as "government-funded media".
The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. It offered e-cards. [4] [5] [6]The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".
1945 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany. 1945 – World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna. 1948 – In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah.
[11] [12] 1937 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry. [13] 1939 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII. [14] 1941 – World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins ...
1944 – World War II: In the action of 14 February 1944, a Royal Navy submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian Regia Marina submarine in the Strait of Malacca. 1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden.
[12] 1809 – London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving its owner, Irish writer and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, destitute. [13] 1809 – Britain invades and captures the French colony of Martinique [14] 1812 – Treaty of Paris between Napoleon and Frederick William III of Prussia against Russia is signed [15]