On This Very Day
April 12th
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- 1872
Jesse James' gang robs Columbia, Kentucky bank, $1,500 stolen, 1 dead.
- 1905
French Dufaux brothers test a helicopter.
- 1907
Switzerland reorganizes its army into a standing militia.
- 1945
FDR dies; Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd US President.
- 1961
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, orbits Earth.
- 1991
US to close 31 military bases.
- 2009
U.S. Navy rescues captain Richard Phillips from pirates.
- 1937
First successful test of a jet engine by Sir Frank Whittle.
- 1861
Civil War begins as Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter.
- 1988
Harvard wins patent for a genetically altered mouse, a first for a life form.
- 1992
Disneyland Paris opens in Marne-La-Vallee, France. View Post →
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