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Daily Calendar for Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Born

  • John George Lambdon (governor-general of British North America) –
  • Beverly Cleary (author) –
  • Dr. Peter Safar (originator of CPR) –
  • Montserrat Caballe (opera singer) –
  • Herbie Hancock (musician) –
  • David Letterman (talk show host) –
  • Tom Clancy (author) –
  • David Cassidy (singer and actor) –
  • Andy GarcΓ­a (actor) –
  • Vince Gill (musician) –
  • Jennifer Morrison (actress) –
  • Claire Danes (actress) –
  • Stubbs the Cat (honorary mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska) –

Died

  • Clara Barton (founder of the American Red Cross) –
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd U.S. president) –
  • Sugar Ray Robinson (boxer) –
  • Abbie Hoffman (social and political activist) –
  • Georgia Engel (actress, best known as Georgette Franklin on The Mary Tyler Moore Show) –

Events

  • Charles A. Gayler received a patent for a fireproof safe–
  • Charles Gayler received a patent for a fireproof iron chest –
  • First U.S. championship billiards game–
  • The US Civil War began–
  • Women granted the right to vote in Ontario–
  • Nova Scotia’s Moose River gold mine collapsed, trapping 3 people–
  • Bill Haley and His Comets recorded Rock Around the Clock–
  • The polio vaccine developed by Dr. Salk was found to be successful after subjection to a year of clinical trials–
  • Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In by the 5th Dimension topped the charts for 6 weeks–
  • Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope across Canada in St. John’s, Newfoundland, by dipping his artificial leg into the Atlantic Ocean–
  • Space shuttle Columbia first launched–
  • Harold Washington was elected the first African-American mayor of Chicago–
  • Texaco Inc. became the largest U.S. company in history to file bankruptcy after it is ordered to pay Pennzoil $8.53 billion in damages for unfair business practices–
  • Golfer Fred Couples won the Masters tournament–

Weather

  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was hit by a tornado; 150 houses lost their roofs–
  • Fourteen inches of snow at Bloomfield, Vermont–
  • 231-mph wind gust on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, second highest wind speed in the world–
  • 21 inches of snow fell in Selby, South Dakota–
  • Ice out, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH–

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