How Many Days Until April 12?

This day in history: April 12

1. 1980

   Canadian athlete Terry Fox embarked on an east-to-west "Marathon of Hope" from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a prosthetic leg to raise funds for cancer research.

2. 1983

   Harold Washington was elected as the first African-American mayor of Chicago.

3. 1993

   Bosnian War: NATO forces began Operation Deny Flight to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered by the United Nations Security Council.

4. 1994

   Husband-and-wife law partners Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel posted the first massive commercial spam on Usenet.

5. 2012

   The Guinea-Bissau military seized control in a coup amid a presidential election, later handing power to a transitional administration under Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo.

6. 2013

   Four Chadian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing by jihadist rebels in Kidal, Mali.

7. 2014

   A fire broke out near Valparaíso, Chile, eventually destroying at least 2,500 homes and leaving approximately 11,000 people homeless.

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