History Of 12 April | On This Day In World

In the history of the World, some other important events recorded on the date of 12 April are as follows: -

➧ 1801: William Cary was appointed Professor of Bangla language at Fort William College of Calcutta.

➧ 1861: Civil war begins in America. Eleven states in the south waged a freedom struggle, with Jefferson Davis led by the declaration of a separate confederation from the United States.

➧ 1885: Rakhaldas Banerjee, the famous historian who discovered Mohenjodaro, was born.

➧ 1927: British cabinet supports voting rights to women.

➧ 1943: Famous politician and Speaker of 16th Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan was born.

➧ 1945: US President Franklin Roosevelt died under mysterious circumstances.

➧ 1946: French occupation of Syria ends.

➧ 1955: Doctor Jonas Salk announced to invent polio medicine.

➧ 1961: The Soviet Union sent Yuri Gagarin into space, maintaining its supremacy in space. He was the first human to travel to space. Major Yuri flew from the Banknoor Space Center in a spacecraft called Vostock. At that time, he was 27 years old.

➧ 1973: Sudan made its constitution.

➧ 1975: US accepts defeat in Cambodia. After intervening in Cambodia's civil war for five years, the US separated itself from the fighting.

➧ 1978: India's first double-decker train leaves from Pune's Victoria Terminal on its maiden voyage to Pune.

➧ 1981: American spacecraft Columbia was launched for the first time.

➧ 1981: Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu American MP was born in the US Congress.

➧ 1994: Canter & Seagull posted the first commercial mass Usenet spam.

➧ 2007: Pakistan approves India on Iran gas pipeline.

➧ 2009: Zimbabwe renounces its official currency, the Zimbabwe Dollar.

➧ 2014: Famous lyricist Gulzar was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2013.

➧ 2014: New drug ABT-450 was announced with a 90–95% success rate for the treatment of Hepatitis C.

➧ 2020: OPEC and other major oil companies agree for the biggest drop in production to stabilize world prices.