Many historic things have happened “On This Day” (April 12th)…what is the MOST significant thing that’s ever happened on April 12th (AND WHY)?

[Anonymous]

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Reference article: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2023/04/12/On-This-Day-Space-Shuttle-Columbia-launched-for-1st-time/8191681254341/

Note: Choose the answer-option that most closely matches your response to this question — which is…

”Many historic things have happened “On This Day” (April 12th)…what is the MOST significant thing that’s ever happened on April 12th (AND WHY)?”

A - In 1861, the [U. S.] Civil War began when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter, South Carolina

B - In 1945, U. S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage

C - In 1955, U. S. health officials announced that the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk was "safe, potent and effective”

D - In 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space

E - In 1981, the “Columbia” was launched on the first U. S. space shuttle flight

F - SOME OTHER THING that’s happened in history on April 12th is the MOST significant thing that’s ever happened on April 12th

G - I DON’T KNOW and/or I DON’T CARE

[NaultD]

Winter is a giant kick in the nuts on getting things done. So spring time is the time to go all out. Why April 12th we can lean on the birthday paradox why any given day is super extra special because mathematic probability with only 365 days in the calendar.

[Asker]

Because several major historic things have happened on April 12th, I was just wondering what people thought was the MOST significant thing that’s ever happened on that date.

Which answer-option did you vote in the poll to this question?

[Lliam]

I voted for the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin. The news shook the world and prompted the space race in which JFK promised to land a man on the moon.

[Asker]

That was certainly huge.

Russia achieving the “first man in space” on 4/12/1961 was the “last straw” — after the the USA had suffered a series of “Soviet Space Firsts” losses to Russia/the USSR…

www.history.com/.../from-sputnik-to-spacewalking-7-soviet-space-firsts

…and it triggered President Kennedy to ~ 6 weeks later (on 5/25/1961) announce before Congress, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth”; and this was partly realized on 7/20/1969 when Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon, and it was achieved 4 days later when they splashed down on earth.

www.cnn.com/.../index.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

[Asker]

When we landed on the moon were you & your family watching it live on tv?

[Lliam]

Yes. My dad worked on the space program.

[Asker]

Awesome
Oh yeah? So cool. What did he do?
And did you live in Houston or FL?

[Lliam]

He was the lead machinist for the experimental machine lab at the Rockwell plant in Downey, Ca.
He worked on every space vehicle from Mercury through the shuttle program.

[Asker]

Ok, wow that is cool.

[Lliam]

Yeah. It was really exciting to watch something that he had helped to build land on the moon.

[Asker]

Uh huh. I bet he & your family were very proud of that & him.

[annabananna]

I didn’t know that April 12 was such an eventful day.

[Asker]

I agree.
So which answer-option did you select in the poll?

[annabananna]

I did G since I didn’t know that anything happened April 12

[Asker]

Yeah?…hmm…I gave 5 examples in answer-options A through E.

[Asker]

(Just am not sure why you didn’t select one from A through E.)

[annabananna]

But what if my answer is really F and I just don’t know it?

[Asker]

Ha…

Well…there’s 2 way to look at things…

Either you have enough faith that an internet article like the “reference article” is going to at least cite the most historic “happened on this day” things (and then you choose from the answer-option list provided in the GAG question’s poll), OR you select G like you did

[Jennz6]

I don’t care

[Jennz6]

@gagname. Not that I don’t care, but every time I reply to your question, you always ask me to explain and I get frustrated

[Jennz6]

Maybe Sally Ride?

[Asker]

Try not to get frustrated…
All my questions — to everyone — are trying to do are 2 things: understand what the person meant by what they said, and how they voted in the poll to the question.

Like for example: I don’t know what “Maybe Sally Ride?” means/why you said that.

[Jennz6]

Maybe the one that blew up in 47 seconds?

[Asker]

Oh.

“On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight…” and “On February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana…”…

en.m.wikipedia.org/.../index.php

But Sally Ride wasn’t on either of those space shuttle missions.

Sally Ride was the first American woman to fly in space in June 1983, and she died of pancreatic cancer in July 2012…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride

NOTE: The above capitalizations are from me, for emphasis.

[Asker]

* DISREGARD THE ABOVE NOTE (there were no capitalizations from me).

[Asker]

…None of the historic space shuttle & Sally Ride dates I cited happened in April.