On this date: April 12
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AprSo I did a little looking and here is what I can find has happened to present on your birth date.
- 1633 Galileo is convicted of heresy
- 1770 Townshend Acts Tossed Aside
- 1861 Fort Sumter fired upon
- 1864 Fort Pillow Massacre
- 1865 Surrender of Mobile, Alabama
- 1858 Salt Lake City offers an uneasy welcome to Alfred Cummings, its first non-Mormon governor, which signals the end of the so-called “Utah War.”
- 1888 Cecil Kimber, the founder of MG, was born
- 1909 Independent Motion Picture Company was established
- 1914 The Stand movie theater open in New York City. The first movie was “palace”.
- 1922 Fatty Arbuckle is found not guilty in his third trial for the death of Virginia Rappe. [side note, ask your mommy about Fatty Arbuckle
] - 1937 Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the controversial National Labor Relations Act.
- 1945 President Franklin D. Rossevelt dies
- 1949 Legal thriller writer Scott Turow is born
- 1954 Haley records “Rock Around the Clock”
- 1961: Soviets win space race
- 1961 Rostow recommends escalation of effort
- 1975: US pulls out of Cambodia
- 1977 GM stop the production of wankel engine
- 1997: Bosnian bomb plot fails to stop Pope
- 1984: Scargill vetoes national ballot on strike
- 2000: Queen honours NI police
A thanks to The History Channel for some of this data.





