Daily Calendar for Sunday, April 12, 2026

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Clara Barton (founder of the American Red Cross) – 1912
Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd U.S. president) – 1945
Abbie Hoffman (social and political activist) – 1989
Sugar Ray Robinson (boxer) – 1989
Georgia Engel (actress, best known as Georgette Franklin on The Mary Tyler Moore Show) – 2019

Charles A. Gayler received a patent for a fireproof safe – 1833
Charles Gayler received a patent for a fireproof iron chest – 1833
First U.S. championship billiards game – 1859
The US Civil War began – 1861
Women granted the right to vote in Ontario – 1917
Nova Scotia’s Moose River gold mine collapsed, trapping 3 people – 1936
Bill Haley and His Comets recorded Rock Around the Clock – 1954
The polio vaccine developed by Dr. Salk was found to be successful after subjection to a year of clinical trials – 1955
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In by the 5th Dimension topped the charts for 6 weeks – 1969
Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope across Canada in St. John’s, Newfoundland, by dipping his artificial leg into the Atlantic Ocean – 1980
Space shuttle Columbia first launched – 1981
Harold Washington was elected the first African-American mayor of Chicago – 1983
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 – 1987
Golfer Fred Couples won the Masters tournament – 1992

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was hit by a tornado; 150 houses lost their roofs – 1856
Fourteen inches of snow at Bloomfield, Vermont – 1929
231-mph wind gust on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, second highest wind speed in the world – 1934
21 inches of snow fell in Selby, South Dakota – 1995
Ice out, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH – 2009