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What happend today? The calendar sheet on Monday, April 12th, 2021

Berlin. The current calendar sheet for Monday, April 12, 2021: What happened today, who was born, who died? The events in the overview.

Calendar sheet: Monday, April 12, 2021

  • 15th calendar week, 263 days until the end of the year
  • Zodiac sign: Aries
  • Name day: Giovanna, Giuseppe, Herta, Julius
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History: What happened on April 12th?

A look at history can sharpen one’s view of the present. What events took place on April 12th?

2011 – The Tokyo nuclear supervisory authority increases the risk assessment of the nuclear accident in Fukushima on March 11 from level 5 to the highest level of risk. Until then, this was only achieved after the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986.

2011 – For the first time since 1982, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands comes to Germany on a four-day state visit. Federal President Christian Wulff receives Beatrix with military honors in front of Bellevue Palace in Berlin.

2006 – The Federal Cartel Office approves the complete takeover of the news channel n-tv by the RTL Group. The merger enables the deficit broadcaster to continue to exist.

2001 – British researchers said they had cloned five genetically modified pigs for the first time.

1996 – The new Leipzig exhibition center is opened with a ceremony. As the most modern exhibition and congress center in Europe to date, it was built in just under three years.

1981 – The American space shuttle “Columbia” takes off from Cape Canaveral on its first space flight. This heralds the era of the reusable space shuttle.

1961 – The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first person to orbit the earth with the space capsule “Vostok 1”.

1861 – The American Civil War begins with the attack by the Confederate South on Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

1841 – Gottfried Semper finishes building the opera house in Dresden.

Celebrity birthdays on April 12th

Who was born on April 12th?

1971 – Shannen Doherty (50), American actress (leading role in the cult television series “Beverly Hills, 90210” (1990-1994) and the television series “Charmed” (1998))

1956 – Andy Garcia (65), American actor (“Jennifer 8”)

1956 – Herbert Grönemeyer (65), German rock singer and actor (successful titles “Bochum” (1984), “Mensch” (2002))

1956 – Walter Salles (65), Brazilian director (“The Journey of Young Che”)

1941 – Bobby Moore, English footballer, became world champion as captain of the English national team in 1966, died in 1993

Prominent days of death on April 12th

Who died on April 12th?

2020 – Stirling Moss, British racing driver, 16 Grand Prix victories 1955-61, four-time Formula 1 vice world champion 1955-58, serious accident in 1962, born in 1929

1981 – Joe Louis, American boxer, the “brown bomber”, until then undefeated, he lost in 1936 to the German Max Schmeling, whom he defeated in 1938, defended his world championship title more than 25 times in more than eleven years, born in 1914

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