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2012 Leap Day tornado outbreak: Tornados hit the midwestern United States with 14 people killed, six in Harrisburg, Illinois. [ 56 ] Egypt lifts a travel ban on seven Americans employed by pro-democracy U.S. groups, including the son of U.S. Transportation secretary Ray LaHood , who is among 16 Americans on trial in Egypt for trying to foment ...
National Beer Day is celebrated in the United States every year on April 7, marking the day that the Cullen–Harrison Act came into force after having been signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 22, 1933. This led to the Eighteenth Amendment being repealed on December 5, 1933, with the ratification of the Twenty-first ...
September 2 – Liberty's Kids premieres on PBS Kids. September 4 – Kelly Clarkson wins the first American Idol competition. September 5 – The Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which burned 499,570 acres (2,022 km 2 ), is contained. September 7 – The Fox Network's Fox Kids block (which had been on the air since 1990 ...
April 7 – R. G. Armstrong, Western film character actor (died 2012) April 8 – John Whitney, animator, composer, and pioneer in computer animation (died 1995) April 10 – Robert B. Woodward, organic chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965 (died 1979) April 12 – Helen Forrest, big band singer (died 1999) April 13
Law and crime Hamas executes three men (of whom one was convicted of collaborating with Israel) in the Gaza Strip. (AFP via Al-Arabiya) Politics Joyce Banda becomes the President of Malawi following the death of Bingu wa Mutharika. (Reuters via Yahoo) The United Kingdom Home Office is subjected to an attack believed to be from the Anonymous computer hacking group. (BBC) Sport The 158th Boat ...
October 7 – The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 games to 3, to win their 15th World Series Title. October 12 – The Gamma Sigma Sigma National Service Sorority is founded in New York City at Panhellenic Tower. October 14 – The United Nations begins work in the new headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.
T. List of United States tornadoes in April 2012. Tornado outbreak of April 13–16, 2012. Tornado outbreak of April 3, 2012.
The Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off into space 35 years ago, and it's still hurtling away from the sun at over 38,000 miles per hour toward the border of our solar system and beyond. It is the ...