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THIS DATE - DOWN THE HISTORY
-12th April -
The world witnessed the following events on this date.

1621- Quo Hugyuno unrest in France suppressed.

1801- William Karrey appointed as Professor of Bengali language in the Fort William College of Calcutta.

1815- Austria declared war against Naples.

1850- The French army took the controls of Rome.

1861- Start of the American home-war.

1945- Harry S. Truman took the oath as the President of America.

1957- The scientists of West Germany refused to assist in the manufacture of nuclear weapons and their testing.

1961- The USSR sent YURI GAGARIN as the first man in the space.

1963-The army of Indonesia attacked Malayasia

1966-North Vietnam bombed for the first time by the American bombers.

1978-Double decker train ran between Bombay and Poona for the first time as a part of celebration of 125th anniversary of the establishment of Indian Raiways.

1987- Two cosmonauts of USSR succeeded in joining the space module with the space station MIR .

1991-Iraq soldiers attacked the Kurd stations in the North Iraq.

1993- The aircrafts of NATO started flying over the restricted areas of Bosnia.

THIS DATE - DOWN THE HISTORY
-13th April -
The world witnessed the following events on this date.

1528- Pope constituted a commission to justify the validity of the marriage of
Henry-VIII of England to Catharine of Oragon.

1589-Sir Francis Drake and John Norris of England started his Operarion Portugal with 150 ships and 18000 people.

1605- Theodor-II became the second Tsar of Russia.

1699- Khalsa Panth established by Sikh Guru Govindsingh.

1743- Birth date of American President Thomas Jefferson.

1772- Warren Hastings of East India Company elected as the president of the Bengal Assembly.

1796- Austrian army defeated by the French army under the leadership of Napolean Bonaparte in North Italy.

1848- Sicily became independent from Naples.

1868- Magdolla of Ithiopia fell under the controls of the British army under the leadership of Robert Napier.

1919- 389 people killed and 1516 suffered severe injuries in the firing on the unarmed people by the order of Brigadier General REH Dayer.

1954- Duedi Jaggan , the former prime minister of British Guina sentenced.

1961- The colour bar strongly criticised by UNO.

1975- Eruption of the home-war of Lebanon.

1976- Fortyfive workers died due to explosion in an armament manufacturing company in Finland.

1989- Solidarity Union in Poland applied for registration.

1990- The soviet president M. Gorbachov asked Lithuania to withdraw its declaration of independence.

1993- A legal proceeding started against twelve persons on the charges of attempt to dislodge the Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachov from his seat.

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