Page 7: Historical Events In April - 12

1975  Josephine Baker, US/French revue artist (Folies-Bergere), dies at 68   

1976  Paul Ford, actor (Phil Silvers Show), dies at 74   

1977  Philip K Wrigley, baseball owner (Chicago Cubs), dies at 82.   

1979  Soyuz 33 returns to Earth.   

1980  Stanley De Silva, cricketer (motor bike Sri Lanka '79 World Cup), dies   

1981  inaugural launching of re-useable Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-1) with all Navy crew. CAPT John W. Young, USN (Ret.) commanded, while LCDR Robert L. Crippen, USN was the pilot. Mission duration was 2 days, 6 hours, and 20 minutes. Sixteen of the shuttle's heat-shielding silicon tiles were lost and 148 damaged during reentry   

1981  inaugural space shuttle (Columbia) launched Americans prove to Russians that theirs is better because it's recyclable   

1981  Hans Chemin-Petit, composer, dies at 78   

1982  3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot   

1982  Ottawa bans imports from Argentina, to protest invasion of Falkland Islands.   

1983  Harold Washington is recorded as becoming Chicago's inaugural black mayor.   

1984  Ruth Taylor, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 76   

1985  16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn.   

1985  US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow games   

1987  Texaco files for brankruptcy.   

1987  Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security) dies at 90   

1988  Alan Stewart Paton, writer, dies   

1989  Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through.   

1989  Abbie Hoffman, yippie peace activist of the 60's, dies at 52.   

1990  Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers   

1990  Henry Kendrick, dies   

1991  2500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs.   

1991  US announces closing of 31 major US military bases   

1991  James Schuyler, US poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies   

1992  Earthquake rocks Germany.   

1992  Euro Disney opens in Marne-la-Vallee France   

1992  Lynn Gunther of Calif threatens to blow herself up in front of UN   

1992  Trump Shuttle is recorded as becoming US Air Shuttle.   

1992  Joe Medwick, vocalist, dies at 61   

1993  Aircraft from USS Theodore Roosevelt and NATO forces begin enforcing the no-fly zone over the Bosnia in Operation Deny Flight.   

1993  Isaac Rojas, vp of Argentina (1955-58), dies   

1994  Harry la Fontaine, Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81.   

1995  Chris Pyne, trombonist, dies at 56   

1996  Marthe Robert, essayist/translator, dies at 82   

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0812  Muhammad at-Taqi, Muslim Shia Imam (d. 835) was born on this day in history.   

1484  On April - 12 birth of antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)   

1500  On April - 12 birth of joachim Camerarius, [Liebhard Kammerer], German humanist   

1526  Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585) was born on this day in history.   

1550  On April - 12 birth of edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604)   

1577  On April - 12 birth of christian IV of Denmark (d. 1648)   

1579  On this day in history birth of francois de Bassompierre, marshal of France   

1626  Paul Hainlein, composer was born on April - 12.   

0065  Death of Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist on this day in history.   

0238  On this day in history death of gordian II, heir to the Roman Empire (killed in battle)   

0352  Julius I, pope (337-52), dies on this day in history.   

0434  On this day in history death of archbishop Maximianus of Constantinople   

1125  Death of Vladislaus I of Bohemia on April - 12.   

1443  Death of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury on this day in history.   

1550  On this day in history claude of Lorraine, duke of Guise, dies at 53   

1555  On this day in history johanna de Wanzinnige, Queen of Castilie (1504-20), dies at 75