📜 This Day in History
April 12
627King Edwin of Northumbria was baptised by Bishop Paulinus of York.- 1807The Froberg mutiny of Greek and Albanian troops in British service ended with the explosion of the gunpowder magazine at Fort Ricasoli, Malta.
- 1861Confederate forces began a bombardment of Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, starting the American Civil War.
- 1980Canadian athlete Terry Fox embarked on an east-to-west "Marathon of Hope" from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a prosthetic leg to raise funds for cancer research.
- 1994Husband-and-wife law partners Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel posted the first massive commercial spam on Usenet.
- 2014A fire broke out near Valparaíso, Chile, eventually destroying at least 2,500 homes and leaving approximately 11,000 people homeless.
