April 12

April 12 is a date filled with history. 

The Civil War started this date with the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861 and it ended with the official surrender at the village of Appomattox Court House on this date in 1865. 

In between, in 1862 the Andrews Raid took place in Georgia, with Union soldiers capturing a Confederate train but later being captured, and in 1864 the Fort Pillow massacre in Tennessee where Nathan Bedford Forrest's men massacred U.S. Colored Troops after their surrender.

In 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, shortly before the end of World War 2. In 1955 the Salk vaccine against polio was declared effective. In 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel in space and orbit the earth. 

Also, Henry Clay, one of the most important and famous U.S. statesmen of the 1800's, was born on this day. 

And in 2015, according to many reports, Hillary Clinton is going to announce that she is running for president of the U.S.