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12 Apr 2022
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized for hosting a party during the height of COVID-19 lockdowns.
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12 Apr 2016
Project Starshot was announced by Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking, and Mark Zuckerberg.
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12 Apr 2015
Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for US President.
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12 Apr 2009
The Zimbabwean dollar was suspended indefinitely.
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12 Apr 1990
The 'Twentieth Century Dinosaurs' exhibit opened at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History.
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12 Apr 1988
The Last Emperor receives nine Academy Awards.
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12 Apr 1981
The first Space Shuttle mission was launched.
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12 Apr 1961
The world's first person visited space.
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12 Apr 1955
Jonas Salk's Polio vaccine tested by Jonas Salk was given final approval by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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12 Apr 1954
Rock Around The Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets was recorded.
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12 Apr 1951
Israeli Knesset chose April 13 as the official Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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12 Apr 1937
The first aircraft jet engine is successfully tested.
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12 Apr 1861
The Battle of Fort Sumter in South Carolina between the United States and the Confederate States started the American Civil War.
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12 Apr 1633
Cardinal Bellarmine condemned Galileo for stating that the earth revolved around the sun.
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12 Apr 1204
Crusaders from the Fourth Crusade broke through Constantinople's walls and entered the great city.
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12 Apr 240 AD
Shapur I became co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
