This Date in History - April 12

We've had two 'Famous Birthday' posts...now it's time for a 'Famous Events in History' post.

On this date in...

1065 - Pilgrims under bishop Gunther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem

1229 - Queen Blanche of Castile & earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace

1557 - Cuenca is founded in Ecuador

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1648 - University of Harderwijk Neth solemn opens

1770 - Townsend Acts repealed

1811 - 1st US colonists on Pacific Coast arrive at Cape Disappointment (Washington)

1857 - Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" published

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1877 - Catcher's mask first used in baseball game

1945 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; VP Harry Truman is sworn in as 33rd US President

1961 - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit the Earth (Vostok 1)

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2015 - Hillary Clinton announces she will run for the Democratic nominee for US President. The 2016 Presidential election will go down as one of the most boring and uneventful in US history.