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April 12 is the 102nd day of the year ... third deadliest tornado in Texas history. ... Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed. [28]
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This is a list of selected April 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit.
Events. 1776 - North Carolina's Provincial Congress authorized its delegates to the Second Continental Congress to vote for independence by issuing the Halifax Resolves.; 1861 - American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
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 Shanghai by forces supporting General Chiang Kai-shek and conservative factions in the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party or KMT).
April 3 – Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician (b. 1866) April 5 – Charles Collett, British chief mechanical engineer (Great Western Railway) (b. 1871) April 8 – Tadeusz Estreicher, Polish cryogenics pioneer (b. 1871) April 15 – Viktor Chernov, Russian revolutionary, leader of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party (b. 1873) April 21
[57] [58] Evacuation of the ship had been ordered at 12:05 am. The first lifeboat had been lowered before 12:45 am and the last lifeboat was lowered at 2:05 am. Years later, a Titanic historian, Phil Gowan was able to pinpoint the number of people aboard at the time of impact and the number of those who died.
Bangladesh issues new lockdown rules that order the closure of all government, semi-government, autonomous, and private offices for one week beginning April 14, as well as suspension of all public transport. However, the government will allow factories to remain open. (Bdnews24.com) COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong