04-12-2005, 05:09 AM
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April 12th
65 ~ Death of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Philosopher, Dramatist & Statesman.
1606 ~ The Union Jack was adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.
1861 ~ American Civil War: The war began with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1884 ~ Birthday of Otto Meyerhof, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1922.
1895 ~ Birthday of Lily Pons, Opera Soprano.
1937 ~ Sir Frank Whittle ground-tested the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at the British Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby, England.
1940 ~ Birthday of Herbie Hancock, Musician.
1944 ~ Birthday of John Kay, of Steppenwolf.
1961 ~ Russians win space race: Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space aboard Vostok 1.
1984 ~ Arthur Scargill, the man who led the destruction of the National Union of Mineworkers ruled out a national ballot of miners on whether to continue their strike.
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