April 12<\/p>\n
1204 \u2013 The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, instead of proceeding to Jerusalem, sack Constantinople after besieging it since July of the previous year in support of the deposed emperor Isaac II Angelos.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 With the passage of the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 The first battle of the Civil War begins with South Carolina militia firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor.<\/p>\n
1900 \u2013 One day after its enactment by the Congress, President William McKinley signs the Foraker Act<\/em> into law, giving Puerto Rico limited self rule.<\/p>\n 1927 \u2013 Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado, destroying 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, killing 72 people and injuring 205 more.<\/p>\n 1934 \u2013 The strongest surface wind gust in the world, at the time, of 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 Vice President Truman becomes President upon the death of President Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Georgia.<\/p>\n 1955 \u2013 After results of a final field trial of over 1,800,000 subjects in the U.S. are tabulated, the first polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective and licensed for use.<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space aboard Vostok 1.<\/em><\/p>\n 1980 \u2013 Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Herc\u00edlio Luz International Airport, in Florian\u00f3polis, Brazil with 55 of the 58 passengers and crew on board killed.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 STS-1, the first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle takes place with Shuttle Columbia <\/em>launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen aboard<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 President Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving “intentionally false statements” in a civil lawsuit.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 Zimbabwe officially abandons the hyperinflated Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 12 1204 \u2013 The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, instead of proceeding to Jerusalem, sack Constantinople after besieging it since July of the previous year in support of the deposed emperor Isaac II Angelos. 1776 \u2013 With the passage of the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66732"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91744,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66732\/revisions\/91744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}