April 12 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for April 12
In the headlines today:

1992	Amid great fanfare, Disneyland Paris (Euro Disney) opens in France.
1989	Sugar Ray Robinson, former middleweight boxing champ, dies in Culver City, California, at age 67.
1989	Activist Abbie Hoffman is found dead in his PA home at age 52.
1984	NASA astronauts from the space shuttle Challenger make the first satellite repair in space.
1981	The NASA space shuttle Columbia lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its maiden voyage.
1966	Surf music singer Jan Berry (Jan & Dean) is critically injured in an automobile accident.
1961	Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to orbit the earth.
1949	The first televised total lunar eclipse is broadcast.
1945	US president Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, GA, at age 63.
1924	Tubular steel golf club shafts are approved for championship play in the US.
1912	Red Cross founder Clara Barton dies.
1861	Confederate forces attack Fort Sumter, SC, beginning the US Civil War.
1693	The first printing press arrives in New York City.
1606	Britain adopts the Union Jack as its flag.