Birthday Meme

I'm finally getting around to doing this fun birthday meme that Celeste tagged me to do - sorry Celeste!

Here's how you play:

1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays and one death
5) One holiday or observance (if any)

My birthday is April 12th.

3 events:

1861 - American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1961 - Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly in space
1981 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.

2 important birthdays:

1947 - Tom Clancy, American author
1957 - Vince Gill, American musician

1 death:

1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Holiday/Observance:

Yuri's Night, an international celebration of the first human in space; in Russia, the Cosmonautics Day