Wikipedia:Main Page history/2017 April 12

Mary and Christ

• ... that Michelangelo destroyed parts of his own Sistine Chapel ceiling to make room for his Last Judgement (detail pictured)?
• ... that Chris Marron jointly holds the record for the most goals scored in an FA Cup match, having scored 10 in one game?
• ... that as the Nazis invaded France in 1940, radio station Paris-Mondial began broadcasting "recordings of military marches and panicked appeals for guns, tanks, and planes"?
• ... that award-winning graphic novelist Miriam Katin only started creating comics at the age of 63?
• ... that J. Lamar Worzel was a recipient of the Navy Meritorious Public Service Award for his part in helping discover the first nuclear submarine lost at sea?
• ... that the "I believe that we will win!" chant, used as a rallying cry by United States fans during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, was first used for the college football Army–Navy Game?
• ... that
  pediatric glaucoma
  ?
• ... that Pu Songling based his pigeon collector character on a real-life stone fanatic?

Sergio García

• In golf, Sergio García (pictured) defeats Justin Rose in a playoff to win the Masters Tournament.
• At least 44 people are killed and 126 others injured when two Egyptian
  are attacked on Palm Sunday
  by suicide bombers.
• The
  Basque separatist militant group ETA disarms itself
  .
• A stolen truck is
  driven through crowds and into a department store in downtown Stockholm
  , killing 4 people and injuring 15 others.
• The United States attacks a Syrian air base in response to a chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun that killed more than 70 people.
• protocols and algorithms that allow the Web to scale
  .

April 12: Yuri's Night; Cosmonautics Day in Russia

Terry Fox

• 1776 – The fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress passed the Halifax Resolves, the first official action in the American colonies calling for independence from Britain during the American Revolution.
• 1831 – Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England, collapsed, reportedly because of mechanical resonance induced by troops marching in step over the bridge.
• 1910 – SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched.
• 1980 – Terry Fox (pictured) dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and began running his "Marathon of Hope" towards the Pacific Ocean at Vancouver, British Columbia, to raise funds across Canada for cancer research.
• Member of Parliament
  and wounding 23 other people.

Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood (d. 1866) · Beverly Cleary (b. 1916) · Xin Fengxia (d. 1998)