On This Day in History April 12, 2023

Historical Events 1204  4th Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople 1811  1st US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, Washington 1872  Jesse James' gang robs a bank of $1,500 in Columbia, Kentucky, 1 dead 1927  Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai 1961  Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1) More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Alan Ayckbourn 84th Birthday David Letterman 76th Birthday Grenville M. Dodge 1831 - 1916 Herbie Hancock 83rd Birthday More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Archibald McIndoe 1900 - 1960 Josephine Baker 1906 - 1975 More Famous Deaths April 12: ‘Guinea Pigs’ Befriend Super Surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe was a New Zealand-born surgeon whose pioneering treatment of burns victims during the Second World War revolutionised plastic surgery. Read the Article