April 12th, 1962

Born on April 12th, 1962

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 22,000 days old!

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What happened on April 12th?

April 12th, 2012

The Guinea-Bissau military seized control in a coup amid a presidential election, later handing power to a transitional administration under Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo.

April 12th, 1993

Bosnian War: NATO forces began Operation Deny Flight (aircraft pictured) to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered by the United Nations Security Council.

April 12th, 1983

Harold Washington was elected as the first African-American mayor of Chicago.

April 12th, 1980

Canadian athlete Terry Fox embarked on an east-to-west "Marathon of Hope" from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a prosthetic leg to raise funds for cancer research.

April 12th, 1961

Aboard Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin performed the first human spaceflight, completing one orbit of Earth in 108 minutes.

April 12th, 1910

SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched in Trieste.

April 12th, 1861

Confederate forces began a bombardment of Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, starting the American Civil War.

April 12th, 1831

The Broughton Suspension Bridge near Manchester, England, collapsed reportedly because of mechanical resonance induced by troops marching in step across it.

April 12th, 1822

Greek War of Independence: Ottoman troops began a massacre of tens of thousands of Greeks (depicted) on the island of Chios.

April 12th, 1807

The Froberg mutiny of Greek and Albanian troops in British service ended with the explosion of the gunpowder magazine at Fort Ricasoli, Malta.

April 12th, 1776

American Revolution: The North Carolina Provincial Congress passed the Halifax Resolves, the first official action in the American colonies calling for independence from Great Britain.

April 12th, 1204

Troops of the Fourth Crusade entered Constantinople and began a sack of the city, temporarily dissolving the Byzantine Empire.

April 12th, 2010

Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28.

April 12th, 2009

Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.

April 12th, 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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 12th

Born on April 12th, 1962

62

Carlos Sainz

Spanish racing driver

*April 12th, 1962, Madrid

62

Nobuhiko Takada

Japanese professional wrestler

*April 12th, 1962, Yokohama

62

Art Alexakis

American musician

*April 12th, 1962, Los Angeles

62

Rob Baker

Canadian guitarist

*April 12th, 1962, Kingston

62

Reinhold Mathy

German footballer (born 1962)

*April 12th, 1962, Memmingen

62

Éric Laboureix

French freestyle skier

*April 12th, 1962, 6th arrondissement of Lyon

62

Kevin Carlson

American puppeteer

*April 12th, 1962, California

62

Pavol Habera

Slovak musician and actor

*April 12th, 1962, Brezno

62

Hüseyin Avni Danyal

Turkish actor

*April 12th, 1962, Trabzon Province

62

Brent Hinkley

Actor

*April 12th, 1962, East Boston

Same Day
Who's birthday is on April 12th?

24

Manuel Turizo

Venezolano singer

*April 12th, 2000, Barranquilla

61

Lydia Cacho

Mexican journalist

*April 12th, 1963, Mexico City

26

Paulo Londra

Argentinian singer

*April 12th, 1998, Córdoba

34

Rahmat Adianto

Badminton player

*April 12th, 1990, Jakarta

36

Rvssian

Jamaican record producer, singer-songwriter and entrepreneur

*April 12th, 1988, Kingston

45

Claire Danes

American actress

*April 12th, 1979, Manhattan

66

Tom Clancy

American author (1947–2013)

*April 12th, 1947, Baltimore †October 1st, 2013, Baltimore

45

Jennifer Morrison

American actress, model, film producer

*April 12th, 1979, Chicago

24

David Hogg

American gun control activist and entrepreneur

*April 12th, 2000, Los Angeles

63

Axel Wöstmann

German rower

*April 12th, 1961, Osnabrück

30

Saoirse Ronan

Irish–American actress (born 1994)

*April 12th, 1994, The Bronx

77

David Letterman

American comedian and television host

*April 12th, 1947, Indianapolis

85

Alan Ayckbourn

English playwright

*April 12th, 1939, London

63

Magda Szubanski

Australian actress

*April 12th, 1961, Liverpool

68

Andy Garcia

American actor and director

*April 12th, 1956, Havana

60

Johan Capiot

Belgian racing cyclist

*April 12th, 1964, Rijkhoven

76

Joschka Fischer

German politician

*April 12th, 1948, Gerabronn

78

Ed O'Neill

American actor (born 1946)

*April 12th, 1946, Youngstown

51

Amr Waked

Egyptian actor

*April 12th, 1973, Sharqia Governorate

41

Matthias Büttner

German politician (born 1983)

*April 12th, 1983, Staßfurt

Same year
Born in 1962

62

Markus Merk

German football referee

*March 15th, 1962, Kaiserslautern

62

Sarah Wollaston

British Liberal Democrat politician

*February 17th, 1962, Woking

61

Hannes Holm

Swedish film director

*November 26th, 1962, Lidingö

61

Chairul Tanjung

Indonesian businessman and bureaucrat

*June 16th, 1962, Jakarta

62

Michele Greene

American actress

*February 3rd, 1962, Las Vegas

61

Marina Kaljurand

Estonian diplomat, politician and badminton player

*September 6th, 1962, Tallinn

62

Jim Carrey

Canadian comedian and actor

*January 17th, 1962, Newmarket

61

Marit Arnstad

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*May 4th, 1962, Skatval

62

Olga Tokarczuk

Polish writer and activist

*January 29th, 1962, Sulechów

61

Tom Cruise

American actor and producer (born 1962)

*July 3rd, 1962, Syracuse

53

Turid Birkeland

Norwegian politician and arts executive (1962–2015)

*November 5th, 1962, Haugesund Municipality †December 24th, 2015, Oslo

61

Demi Moore

American actress

*November 11th, 1962, Roswell

61

Razif Sidek

Malaysian badminton player

*May 29th, 1962, Banting

61

Michelle Yeoh

Malaysian actress (born 1962)

*August 6th, 1962, Ipoh

61

Ginger Lynn

American pornographic actress

*December 14th, 1962, Rockford

61

Herry Iman Pierngadi

Badminton coach from Indonesia

*August 21st, 1962, Pangkal Pinang City

61

Ong Beng Teong

Malaysian badminton player

*May 29th, 1962, Kuala Lumpur

62

Eddie Izzard

British comedian and actor (born 1962)

*February 7th, 1962, Aden

61

Baz Luhrmann

Australian writer, director, and producer

*September 17th, 1962, Sydney

61

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

German politician, former federal minister of defence

*August 9th, 1962, Völklingen

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on April 12th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Commemoration of first human in space by Yuri Gagarin) which are celebrated on April 12th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on April 12th, 1962
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1962 is a normal year and no leap year.

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