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Events on April 12

• 1606 To emphasize the personal union between England and Scotland, King James I/VI issued a decree establishing a common flag for the two countries. The Union Jack is a superimposition of the Scottish St Andrew's Cross and the English St George's Cross.
• 1633 The Inquisition in Rome begins the formal interrogation of Galileo Galilei because of his teaching of the heliocentric worldview. He must move into the premises of the Inquisition for 22 days for this purpose.
• 1774 Directed by Heinrich Gottfried Koch, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Sturm und Drang drama Götz of Berlichingen premieres at the Berliner Comödienhaus.
• 1848 The Hecker Uprising, which sought to enforce the goals of the March Revolution in the Grand Duchy of Baden, begins with a people's assembly initiated by Friedrich Hecker and Gustav Struve in the town hall in Constance. The radical democrats, however, do not find the hoped-for support among the people for the Baden Revolution.
• 1933 Rudolf Benario, Ernst Goldmann, Arthur Kahn and Erwin Kahn are murdered at Dachau concentration camp. Benario, Goldmann and Arthur Kahn are the first Jewish victims in a German concentration camp.
• 1968 On the day after the assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke by Josef Bachmann in Berlin, serious riots break out in several German cities.
• 1981 With the STS-1 mission of Space Shuttle Columbia, a reusable Space Shuttle is launched into space for the first time. On board are commander John Watts Young and pilot Robert Crippen. The spaceflight lasts until 14 April.
• 1984 Almost 20 years after planning began, the new Startbahn West is put into operation at Frankfurt Main Airport. Due to the ongoing massive protests, no opening festivities are held.
• 1990 Following his success in the 1990 Volkskammer election, CDU politician Lothar de Maizière is elected as the first Prime Minister of the GDR to have a democratic mandate. The de Maizière government is the last government of the GDR.
• 1992 As the first Walt Disney amusement park in Europe, Euro Disney Resort Paris opens in Marne-la-Vallée, 30 kilometers east of Paris.
• 1999 Near Robert-Daum-Platz in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal, the worst accident in the history of the Wuppertal Suspension Railway occurs, claiming 5 lives and injuring 47 people.
• 2018 The Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth is reopened after a six-year renovation phase with the opera Artaserse by Johann Adolph Hasse, which also marked the beginning of Bayreuth's performance history in 1748.

Born on April 12

• 1871 August Endell, German Art Nouveau architect
• 1883 Otto Bartning, German architect and architectural theorist
• 1892 Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist
• 1903 Arthur Geiss, German motorcycle racer
• 1930 Bubi Scholz, German boxer
• 1940 Herbie Hancock, American musician
• 1941 Bobby Moore, English footballer
• 1950 Flavio Briatore, Italian Formula 1 manager
• 1950 David Cassidy, American actor and singer
• 1971 Shannen Doherty, American actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „12. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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