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1204Apr 12The Fourth Crusade, led by Boniface of Montferrat, sacked Constantinople. Constantinople fell to a combined force of Franks and Venetians. The 4th Crusade failed to reach Palestine but sacked the Byzantine Christian capital of Constantinople.
1522Apr 12Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (b.1462), aka Piero di Lorenzo, died of plague. His work included “Cart of Death.”
1550Apr 12Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was born (d.1604). Some claimed that he was responsible for all the 37 plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long narrative poems that are attributed to William Shakespeare. De Vere was first advanced as the author of Shakespeare’s work in 1918 by English schoolmaster J. Thomas Looney.
1654Apr 12England, Ireland and Scotland united.
1770Apr 12British Parliament repealed the 1967 [Townshend] Townsend Acts that put duties on certain products imported to the US.
1787Apr 12Philadelphia’s Free African Society formed.
1844Apr 12Texas became a US territory.
1862Apr 12Union troops occupied Fort Pulaski, Georgia.
1863Apr 12Gunboat battle at Bayou Teche, Louisiana.
1864Apr 12Battle of Blair’s Landing in LA.
1869Apr 12North Carolina legislature passed an anti-Klan Law.
1872Apr 12Jesse James gang robbed bank in Columbia, Kentucky, of $1,500 with 1 person killed.
1878Apr 12William M “Boss” Tweed, NYC politician, died in prison.
1905Apr 12French Dufaux brothers tested a helicopter.
1916Apr 12American cavalrymen and Mexican bandit troops clashed at Parrel, Mexico.
1917Apr 12Domenico Scarlatti’s and Jean Cocteau’s ballet premiered in Rome.
1927Apr 12The British Cabinet came out in favor of women voting rights.
1931Apr 12Spanish voters rejected the monarchy.
1932Apr 12Emmanuel Chabrier’s and Balanchine’s ballet premiered in Monte Carlo.
1940Apr 12Italy annexed Albania.
1942Apr 12Japan killed about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan.
1945Apr 12Richard Strauss completed his “Metamorphosis.”
1946Apr 12Syria gained independence from France.
1947Apr 12David Letterman, comedian (Late Night), was born in Indianapolis, Ind.
1951Apr 12The Israeli Knesset officially designated the 27th of Nissan, a few days after the end of Passover, as Holocaust Memorial Day.
1954Apr 12Joe Turner released “Shake, Rattle & Roll.”
1959Apr 12France Observator reported torture practice by French army in Algeria.
1960Apr 12Bill Veeck and Chicago’s Comiskey Park debuted the “Exploding Scoreboard.”
1963Apr 12Police used dogs and cattle prods on peaceful civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama.
1969Apr 12Simon and Garfunkel released “The Boxer.”
1973Apr 12Viet Nam and France officially established diplomatic relations.
1983Apr 12Chicagoans went to the polls to elect Harold Washington the city’s first black mayor.
1985Apr 12Sen. Jake Garn of Utah became the first senator to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
1988Apr 12Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs, Calif.
1990Apr 12Greyhound Bus hired new drivers to replace strikers.
1991Apr 12Defense Secretary Dick Cheney announced plans to close 31 major US military bases, including Ford Ord in California and Fort Dix in New Jersey.
1992Apr 12After five years in the making, Euro Disneyland, a theme park costing $4 billion, opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France, amid controversy as French intellectuals bemoaned the invasion of American pop culture.
1993Apr 12NATO warplanes began enforcing a United Nations no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina; meanwhile, Bosnian Serbs bombarded the besieged eastern town of Srebrenica.
1994Apr 12The US Operations Distant Runner and Support Hope began in Rwanda and ended Sep 30, 1994. They cost $147.8 billion.
1996Apr 12The artwork of Masamune Shirow was featured in the Japanese animation epic “Ghost in the Shell.” It was set in a futuristic Tokyo of 2029.
1997Apr 12In Italy the Shroud of Turin was recovered from a fire that began in the Guarini chapel of the city’s 15th century cathedral.
1999Apr 12In Arkansas U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright cited President Clinton for contempt of court, concluding that the president had lied about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in a deposition in the Paula Jones case.
2000Apr 12China’s Pres. Jiang Zemin arrived in Israel to support commercial defense relations between the two countries.
2001Apr 12Maryland banned farming of genetically modified fish in waters linked to other bodies.
2002Apr 12Boston’s Cardinal Bernard Law ignored growing demands for his resignation because of the sex scandal engulfing the church. Law ended up resigning the following December.
2003Apr 12The US Congress approved almost $79 billion to pay for the war in Iraq.
2004Apr 12Barry Bonds hit his 660th home run to tie godfather Willie Mays for third on baseball’s career list. Bonds hit a towering three-run shot in the fifth inning, sending the San Francisco Giants to a 7-5 win over the visiting Milwaukee Brewers.
2006Apr 12The US Treasury Department said “transactions with the Palestinian Authority by US persons are prohibited, unless licensed.” It said the decision was based on “existing terrorism sanctions.”
2007Apr 12The new US “forever” postage stamp was scheduled to go on sale. The cost for first class mail was set to rise to 41 cents on May 14.
2008Apr 12Jerry Zucker (58), Israeli-born American businessman and chief executive of Hudson’s Bay Co., died of cancer. Zucker’s wife Anita Zucker became governor of HBC, Canada’s largest retailer, making her the first woman to hold that position in the company’s 338-year history.
2009Apr 12The Pritzker jury named Peter Zumthor (65), a Swiss architect, as the 2009 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
2010Apr 12A British scientific expedition said it has discovered the world’s deepest known underwater volcanic vent off the Cayman Islands.
2011Apr 12California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation requiring the state’s utilities to get 33% of its electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2020.
2012Apr 12In California a large thunder storm dropped a record 1.24 inches of rain in San Francisco. The previous record was .92 inches on April 12, 2003.
2013Apr 12The United States announced sanctions for 18 Russians under the Magnitsky Law, named for Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was arrested in 2008 for tax evasion after accusing Russian police officials of stealing $230 million in tax rebates.
2014Apr 12The 188-nation IMF concluded weekend meeting in Washington, DC, with pledges to work for faster growth to alleviate unemployment.
2014Apr 12In Myanmar a passenger bus collided with a car and burst into flames along a highway, killing 12 passengers and injuring five others.
Source: Timelines of History   

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