On this dayApril 12: Easter (Western Christianity, 2020); Holy Week begins (Eastern Christianity, 2020); Yuri's Night; Cosmonautics Day in Russia (1961)
627 – King Edwin of Northumbria was baptised by Bishop Paulinus of York.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: Ottoman troops began a massacre of tens of thousands of Greeks on the island of Chios.
1910 – SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched.
1980 – Canadian athlete Terry Fox (pictured) embarked on an east–west "Marathon of Hope" with a prosthetic leg, beginning in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and intending to reach Vancouver, to raise funds for cancer research.
2014 – A fire broke out in the hills near Valparaíso, Chile, eventually destroying at least 2,500 homes and leaving approximately 11,000 people homeless.
Margaret of Bourbon, Queen of Navarre (d. 1256)Addie Joss (b. 1880)Sydney Allard (d. 1966)
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