FOFOLINA
04-12-2002, 08:11 PM
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This Day in History
On April 12
1606 England adopted the original Union Jack as its flag.
1782 The British navy won its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off Dominica.
1861 Fort Sumter was shelled by the Confederacy, starting America's Civil War.
1864 Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captured Fort Pillow, in Tennessee and slaughtered the black Union troops there.
1892 Voters in Lockport, New York, became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines.
1927 The British Cabinet came out in favor of women voting rights.
1944 The U.S. Twentieth Air Force was activated to begin the strategic bombing of Japan.
1945 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S. Truman became president.
1961 Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth.
1981 The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL, on its first test flight.
1984 Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger made the first satellite repair in orbit by returning the Solar Max satellite to space.
1988 Harvard University won a patent for a genetically altered mouse. It was the first patent for a life form.
1989 In the U.S.S.R, ration cards were issued for the first time since World War II. The ration was prompted by a sugar shortage.
1992 Euro Disneyland opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France
This Day in History
On April 12
1606 England adopted the original Union Jack as its flag.
1782 The British navy won its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off Dominica.
1861 Fort Sumter was shelled by the Confederacy, starting America's Civil War.
1864 Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captured Fort Pillow, in Tennessee and slaughtered the black Union troops there.
1892 Voters in Lockport, New York, became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines.
1927 The British Cabinet came out in favor of women voting rights.
1944 The U.S. Twentieth Air Force was activated to begin the strategic bombing of Japan.
1945 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S. Truman became president.
1961 Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth.
1981 The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL, on its first test flight.
1984 Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger made the first satellite repair in orbit by returning the Solar Max satellite to space.
1988 Harvard University won a patent for a genetically altered mouse. It was the first patent for a life form.
1989 In the U.S.S.R, ration cards were issued for the first time since World War II. The ration was prompted by a sugar shortage.
1992 Euro Disneyland opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France