12 April
Notable Births
Matteo Berrettini
b. 1996
Italian tennis player (born 1996)
Jan Bednarek
b. 1996
Polish footballer (born 1996)
Pedro Cachin
b. 1995
Argentine tennis player
Saoirse Ronan
b. 1994
American actress (born 1994)
Eric Bailly
b. 1994
Ivorian footballer (born 1994)
Isabelle Drummond
b. 1994
Brazilian actress (born 1994)
Guido Rodríguez
b. 1994
Argentine footballer (born 1994)
Sehun
b. 1994
South Korean rapper (born 1994)
Robin Anderson (tennis)
b. 1993
American tennis player (born 1993)
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
b. 1993
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1993)
Chad le Clos
b. 1992
South African swimmer (born 1992)
Lionel Carole
b. 1991
French footballer (born 1991)
Oliver Norwood
b. 1991
English footballer (born 1991)
Carlos Sainz Sr.
b. 1962
Spanish rally driver (born 1962)
Vince Gill
b. 1957
American musician (born 1957)
Andy Garcia
b. 1956
American actor (born 1956)
Tom Clancy
b. 1947
American author (1947–2013)
David Letterman
b. 1947
American comedian and television host (born 1947)
Herbie Hancock
b. 1940
American jazz pianist and composer (born 1940)
Henry Clay
b. 1777
American politician (1777–1852)
Notable Deaths
Pilita Corrales
d. 2025
Filipina singer (1939–2025)
Roberto Cavalli
d. 2024
Italian fashion designer and inventor (1940–2024)
Eleanor Coppola
d. 2024
American documentary filmmaker (1936–2024)
Robert MacNeil
d. 2024
Canadian-American journalist (1931–2024)
Gilbert Gottfried
d. 2022
American comedian (1955–2022)
Tarvaris Jackson
d. 2020
American football player (1983–2020)
Charlie Murphy (actor)
d. 2017
American comedian and actor (1959–2017)
Mohammad Al Gaz
d. 2016
Emirati financier and developer
Anne Jackson
d. 2016
American actress (1925–2016)
Paulo Brossard
d. 2015
Brazilian politician
Patrice Dominguez
d. 2015
French former tennis player (1950–2015)
List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (E)
d. 2015
Hal R. Smith
d. 2014
American baseball player (1931–2014)
Robert Byrne (chess player)
d. 2013
American chess grandmaster (1928–2013)
Annamária Szalai
d. 2013
Ya'akov Yosef
d. 2013
Rabbi and Israeli politician
Mohit Chattopadhyay
d. 2012
Indian Bengali playwright and poet (1934–2012)
Michel Chartrand
d. 2010
Canadian trade union leader (1916–2010)
Werner Schroeter
d. 2010
German film director and screenwriter (1945–2010)
William Sloane Coffin
d. 2006
American clergyman and peace activist (1924–2006)
On This Day in History
All 52 ›2026
The Tisza Party, led by Péter Magyar wins the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election, defeating Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party, which had ruled the country for 16 years, marking the first change in government in Hungary for over a decade.
Tisza Party
2014
The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying more than 2,500 homes.
Great Fire of Valparaíso
2013
Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali.
April 2013 Kidal attack
2010
Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28.
Merano derailment
2009
Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.
Zimbabwe
2007
A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing
2002
A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104.
2002 Mahane Yehuda Market bombing
1999
United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
Bill Clinton
1999
During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, an American McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle shoots a passenger train, killing between 20 and 60 people.
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
1992
The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Resort Paris.
Disneyland Park (Paris)
1990
Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
Jim Gary
1990
Widerøe Flight 839 crashes after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Norway, killing five people.
Widerøe Flight 839
1985
Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-51D to deploy two communications satellites.
Space Shuttle Discovery
1983
Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
Harold Washington
1981
The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
Space Shuttle
1980
The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed.
1980 Liberian coup d'état
1980
Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
Transbrasil Flight 303
1980
Canadian runner and athlete, Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope Run in St. John's, NF
Terry Fox
1970
Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
Soviet submarine K-8
1963
The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.[citation needed]
Soviet Union