April 12th

The April 12th is the 102e Jour of the Année (103e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

1128 : In a bubble of the Pape Honorius II appears for the first time the name of Asch , the first name of what was not going to be long in becoming the town of the Esch-on-Alzette (Luxembourg).
1365 : The treated of Guérande devotes Jean de Montfort, which becomes Jean IV, duke of Brittany provided that it lends homage to the King de France Charles V.
1591 : Destruction of the kingdom of Songhaï
1606: the king Jacques Ier founds the Union Jack like official flag of the kingdoms of Scotland and England…
1633: Beginning of the lawsuit of Galileo.
1861 : Catch of the Strong Sumter in bay of Charleston, South Carolina, by the confederated troops; beginning of the American Civil War.
1893 : Inauguration of Olympia, Parisian theater.

20th century

1961 : First Space flight inhabited by Youri Gagarine
1980: Terry Fox plunges its artificial leg in the Atlantique to Midsummer's Day of Newfoundland, thus amorçant its “Marathon of the Hope”.
1981 : First flight of a American Space shuttle, Columbia
1992:

First turn of the presidential election to the Mali.
Opening to the general public of the park Euro Disneyland with 9:01 and of the complex Euro Disney arises.
Five cease definitively its emissions at midnight.

21e century

2002 : Hugo Chávez, president of the Venezuela, is briefly driven out capacity at the time of a coup d'etat.
2006 : The murder of Joe Van Holsbeeck , old 17 years, in full rush hour at the central station of Brussels for the flight of sound Lecteur MP3 will start an agitation and a national reaction.

Births

1526 : Muretus, humanistic French († 1585)
1550: Edward de Vere, politicking English († 1604)
1577: Christian IV king of the Denmark († 1648)
1579: François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France († October 12th 1646)
1713: Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer († 1796)
1722: Pietro Nardini, Italian type-setter († 1793)
1724: Lyman Hall, American signatory of the Declaration of independence († 1790)
1726: Charles Burney, British historian († 1814)
1748: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist († 1836)
1777: Henry Clay, American statesman († 1852)
1794: Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician († 1847)
1799: Henri Druey, Switzerland († 1855)
1801: Joseph Lanner, type-setter, violonist and Austrian leader († April 14th 1843), precursor of the Waltz with Strauss father
1849: Albert Heim, Swiss geologist
1869: Desired Henri Landru, criminal French. († guillotine the February 25th 1922)
1880: Harry Baur, actor French († 1943)
1884: Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German physiologist († 1951)
1898: Lily Pons, singer soprano American naturalized Frenchwoman. († February 13rd 1976)
1908: Carlos Restrepo, president of the Republic of Colombia of 1966 with 1970.
1924 : Raymond Barre, Politician French († August 25th 2007)
1932: Jean-Pierre Marielle, actor French
1933: Montserrat Cabals, celebrates soprano of opera Spanish.
1937 : Igor P. Volk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
1940: Herbie Hancock, American type-setter
1947: Tom Clancy, American novelist
1950: David Cassidy, actor, producer, scenario writer and American type-setter.
1952 : Pierre Stolze, French author of science fiction
1955: Jean-Louis Aubert, singer French
1956

Andy Garcia, American actor (born in Cuba)
Walter Rooms, realizer Brazil IEN
Herbert Grönemeyer, singer, pianist, and German actor

1957: Vince Gill, American musician
1961: LISA Gerrard, singer of the group Dead Edge Dance and director
1962

Carlos Sainz, Spanish pilot of rallys
Art Alexakis, American musician (Everclear)

1964: Amy Ray, American musician (Indigo Girls)
1970: Nick Hexum, American musician (311)
1971:

Shannen Doherty, American actress
Nicholas Brendon, American actor

1978

Guy Berryman, British musician (Coldplay)
Riley Smith, American actor

1979:

Mateja Kežman, Serb footballer
Claire Danes, American actress
Baek Kyoung-song, to grate/Korean type-setter
Jennifer Marie Morrison, actress states-unienne

1981: John Drai, bass player of the group Spheric Universe Experiment
1982: Deen, Bosnian singer
1985: Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)

Death

65 : Sénèque the Young person, philosopher and statesman Romain
238: Gordian Ier, Roman Emperor
238: Gordian II, heir to the Roman Empire
352: Jules Ier, 35e pope
1167: Charles VII of Sweden, king de Suède
1550: Claude of Lorraine, duke of Own way (° October 20th 1496)
1704: Jacques Benign Bossuet, bishop and writer French (° September 27th 1627)
1782: Pietro Metastasio ( Pietro Trapassi ), Italian poet (° January 13rd 1698)
1795: Jean-Gaspard of the Dew, general Bavarian (° April 30th 1710)
1817: Charles Messier, French astronomer (° June 26th 1730)
1902: Alfred Cornu, French physicist (° March 6th 1842)
1912: Ernest Duchesne, French, precursory doctor of the therapy on the Antibiotic S (° May 30th 1874)
1938: Fédor Chaliapine, Russian opera singer (° February 13rd 1873)
1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32e president of the United States (° January 30th 1882)
1963: Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, philosopher Polish (° December 12th 1890)
1971: Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize of physics 1958 (° July 8th 1895)
1975: Joséphine Baker, French-speaking singer states-unien (° June 3rd 1906)
1980: William R. Tolbert, Jr., president of the Liberia (° May 13rd 1913)
1981: Joe Louis, boxer states-unien (° May 13rd 1914)
1989: Abbie Hoffman, anarchistic states-unien (° November 30th 1936)
1989: Sugar Ray Robinson, boxer states-unien (° May 3rd 1921)
1997: George Wald, scientific states-unien, Nobel Prize of medicine 1967 (° November 18th 1903)
2001: Harvey Ball, inventor of the Smiley. (° July 10th 1921)
2006: Joe Van Holsbeek, Young Belgian student whose death causes a national upheaval (° February 1989)

Almanac

Celebrated saint: Holy Jules

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

Erkembode de Thérouanne († 714), bishop.

Orthodoxe saints

Basile de Riazan († 1295), bishop.

See too

April 12th in sport
April 12th in the railroads

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