National Licorice Day
National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day
Big Wind Day
Russian Cosmonaut Day, marking the day of Yuri Gagarin’s space flight in 1961. He was the first human to journey into outer space.
From Asimov, Isaac. Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts. New York, Bell Publishing Company, 1981
King Charles VII, who was assassinated in 1167, was the first Swedish king with the name of Charles. No one knows why he was called VII when there was no I, II, III, etc. Almost 300 years passed before there was a Charles VIII (1448-57)
He was born c 1130; died 12 April 1167.
In the United Kingdom, King Charles I was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Following his death the monarchy was abolished and the Commonwealth of England was established as a republic. The monarchy was restored to Charles’s son Charles II in 1660.
King Charles II, byname The Merry Monarch, king of Great Britain and Ireland, was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651, and King of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.
King Charles III is the current monarch of the United Kingdom. He was corinated May 6, 2023.
1606 – The Union Flag was adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
Birthday of Henry Clay (1777), American statesman known as the “Great Compromiser”. Henry Clay served in Congress and as Secretary of State under President John Quincy Adams.
Texan envoys signed Treaty of Annexation with the United States on April 12, 1844.
Fort Sumter Day is the anniversary of the bombardment of Fort Sumter in 1861 which started the American Civil War
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945; Vice-President Harry Truman was sworn in as the 33rd President. FDR died at Warm Springs, Georgia at age 63 of a massive cerebral hemorrhage (stroke).
On this day in 1955, the polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, was declared safe and effective.
1961 – The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).