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On The Way To Today... April 12th
1204 - In the Fourth Crusade, Constantinople was captured by the
Crusaders.
1606 - King James of England ordered a "Union Flag" combining the
crosses of St. George of England and St. Andrew of Scotland.
1654 - The Ordinance of Union came into effect, uniting Ireland and
Scotland with England.
1709 - The English magazine The Tatler, founded by Sir Richard Steele,
was first published.
1776 - North Carolina became the first colony to call for independence
against Great Britain. The colony's Provincial Congress approved a
document later called the "Halifax Resolves." This document is
considered the precursor of the US Declaration of Independence. The
North Carolina delegates voted for independence in the town of
Halifax.
1796 - Napoleon's forces defeated the Austrian and Sardinian armies at
the end of the Battle of Montenotte; it was Napoleon's first
significant victory.
1799 - The comb cutting maching was patented by Phineas Pratt.
1833 - In New York City, Charles Gaylor patented the fireproof safe.
1847 - Yung Wing, was one of several Chinese students arriving in the
United States today. In 1854m he became the first student from China
to graduate from Yale University.
1861 - The United States Civil War began when Confederate troops
attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
1877 - Great Britain annexed the Boer South African Republic as the
Transvaal.
1877 - James Alexander Tyng became the first baseball player to wear a
1892 - Voters in Lockport, New York, had the honor of becoming the
first in the United States to use voting machines.
1905 - In New York City, the Hippodrome opened with the gala musical,
"A Yankee Circus on Mars".
1914 - George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion" opened in London with
Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle and Sir Herbert Tree as
Professor Higgins.
1932 - The thrill-comedy, "Joe Palooka", debuted on CBS radio. It
would also become a popular comic strip.
1939 - One of the theme songs of the Big Band era was recorded for
1944 - King Victor Emmanuel of Italy announced his intention to
abdicate in favor of the Prince of Piedmont when the Allies entered
Rome.
1954 - Rock Around the Clock was recorded on this date by Bill Haley
and the Comets on the Decca label, at New York's Pythian Temple. It is
claimed to have sold 25 million copies.
1961 - The Soviet Union launched the first man into space; cosmonaut
Yuri Gargarin was carried by the spacecraft Vostok I on a single orbit
of the Earth in an 108-minute flight.
1963 - Bob Dylan made his first solo concert appearance at Town Hall
in New York City.
1964 - Arnold Palmer won his fourth Masters title and became the first
golfer to earn career golf earnings of $506,496.84.
1964 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania singer, Chubby Checker married
ex-Miss World, Catherina Lodders.
1967 - Jim Brown had his television acting debut in "Cops and Robbers"
on the NBC-TV's "I Spy", starring Bill Cosby and Robert Culp. "I Spy"
ran from 1965 through 1968. The main characters, Cosby and Culp, were
secret agents posing as a tennis star and his trainer. "I Spy" marked
the first time a television series co-starred a black actor.
1969 - Lucy and Snoopy from the comic strip, "Peanuts", were on the
cover of "Saturday Review".
1975 - Philadelphia Freedom, recorded by The Elton John Band, jumped
into the Number 1 spot on Billboard's record charts, and stayed there
for 2 weeks.
1980 - Liberian President William Tolbert was assassinated in a
military coup. Samuel K. Doe was installed as the new head of state.
1981 - The world's first re-usable space shuttle Columbia was launched
at Cape Canaveral.
1982 - Britain declared a 200-mile maritime exclusion zone around the
Falkland Islands.
1984 - Astronauts on Challenger made the first orbital satellite
repair by returning a repaired Solar Max satellite to space. The sun
watcher had been circling Earth for three years with all of its
circuits dead until repairs were made.
1985 - Federal inspectors declared that four animals of the Ringling
Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were not unicorns as the circus
said, but goats with horns which had been surgically implanted. The
circus was ordered to quit advertising the fake unicorns as anything
else but goats. We assure you that no animals are harmed in the
production of "Those Were the Days" and we use only first-rate,
genuine unicorns.
when, today, he lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1987 - Larry Mize, 28, hit a wonderous shot in golf, a 140-foot chip,
winning him the Masters golf title in Augusta, Georgia. Mize beat Greg
Norman and Seve Ballesteros in the playoff.
1996 - Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers were declared the world's
tallest buildings by a committee of experts meeting in the shadow of
the previous title-holder, Chicago's Sears Tower.
1999 - For the second time in four months, "60 Minutes" apologized on
the air over a report on drug smuggling, acknowledging that a memo
cited by the newsmagazine had turned out to be bogus. The apology was
part of a settlement reached with a customs official who had sued CBS.
"60 Minutes" issued the apology over a report on April 20, 1997, about
drugs flowing across the United States-Mexico border at San Diego.
Correspondent Lesley Stahl, who made the apology, emphasized that CBS
stuck by the underlying theme of the report. In December 1998, 60
Minutes founder Don Hewitt apologized for airing a June 1997 story
based on a British documentary about smugglers swallowing heroin in
latex gloves to get past authorities. An investigative panel later
found that the documentary producers had faked locations and paid
actors to portray drug couriers.
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