What happened today, and who was born/died

BIRTHS
04/12/1777	Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser'
04/12/1791	Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
04/12/1913	Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader and vibraphone improvisor
EVENTS
04/12/1204	4th Crusade sacks Constantinople
04/12/1861	Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War.
04/12/1877	British annex Transvaal, in South Africa
04/12/1898	Army transfers Yerba Buena Island to Navy.
04/12/1933	Moffatt Field (Naval Air Station) is commissioned.
04/12/1938	First US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses, NY
04/12/1955	Salk polio vaccine safe and effective; four billion dimes marched
04/12/1961	Cosmonaut Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes first man in orbit.
04/12/1981	Maiden voyage Space Transit System-space shuttle Columbia.

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