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HISTORY QUIZ OF THE DAY (Apr-12)

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Apr 12, 2006 :: Dr. RAJKUMAR :: Died this day, he was an Indian .

Apr 12, 1981 :: COLUMBIA :: US - On this day, it blasted off from Cape Canaveral on its first test flight with Robert Crippen and John Young.

Apr 12, 1965 :: BASEBALL :: On this day, the first baseball stadium was opened at Houston.

Apr 12, 1961 :: Yuri Alekseyevich GAGARIN :: Russian cosmonaut - On this day, he became the when he was launched by Vostok I into the space.

Apr 12, 1948 :: HIRAKUD DAM :: On this day, Pandit laid the foundation of this dam and the new capital of Orissa at Bhubaneshwar.

Apr 12, 1945 :: Franklin D. ROOSEWELT :: On this day, he died ; vice-president Harry Truman was sworn in as the 33rd President.

Apr 12, 1942 :: JACOB ZUMA :: Born this day, he is the President of .

Apr 12, 1930 :: WILFRED Rhodes :: English cricketer - On this day, he became the to play test cricket at the age of over 52 and half years.

Apr 12, 1912 :: CLARA BARTON :: Died this day as Clarissa Harlowe Barton, she was a pioneer American . She is best remembered for organizing the American .

Apr 12, 1903 :: JAN TINBERGEN :: Born this day, he was a economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994).

Apr 12, 1902 :: LOUIS BEEL :: Born this day, he was the Prime Minister of the (d. 1977).

Apr 12, 1894 :: FRANCISCO CRAVEIRO LOPES :: Born this day, he was the 13th President of .

Apr 12, 1888 :: Alfred Nobel :: The inventor of dynamite - On this day, a French newspaper inadvertently published an obituary for him calling him "a ".

Apr 12, 1884 :: OTTO MEYERHOF :: Born this day, he was a biochemist and Nobel laurate in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1951).