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On this date: April 12

So 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.

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