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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 [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
1864 - American Civil War: Fort Pillow massacre -- Confederate forces under General Nathan Bedford Forrest kill most of the African American soldiers who had surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. 1865 - American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army. 1934 - The strongest surface wind gust in the world, 231 mph, was measured by ...
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was a dispute over whether slavery should be ...
The Sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople, then the capital of the Byzantine Empire. After the capture of the city, the Latin Empire (known to the Byzantines as the Frankokratia or the Latin occupation) [4] was ...
April 1, 1942 (Wednesday) In the Burma Campaign, Japanese forces attacked Prome in strength. [1] The Pacific War Council was formed in Washington, D.C. Italian cruiser Giovanni delle Bande Nere was sunk off Stromboli by the British submarine HMS Urge. The British submarines P36 and Pandora were bombed and sunk at Malta by Regia Aeronautica ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1928. 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1928th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 928th year of the 2nd millennium, the 28th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1920s decade. A 1928 Ford Model A.
April 12, 1924 (Saturday) A scandal broke within the U.S. Navy after a radio operator discovered that members of the crew of the battleship USS Arizona (which would be sunk at Pearl Harbor in 1941) had helped an American prostitute, Madeline Blair, stow away when the ship was anchored at New York City.
1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1985th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 985th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1980s decade.