Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/April 12

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• 1777 - North Carolina ratifies the American Declaration of Independence.
• 1861 - American Civil War begins with the bombardment of Fort Sumter in South Carolina by Confederate forces.
• 1945 - American President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in Warm Springs, Georgia of a brain hemmorage.
• 1961 - Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space.
• 1981 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.

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in terms of space exploration yuri gagarin is more important than the columbia shuttle launch. If one wishes to avoid further soviet x americans discussion, put an image of galileu galilei

I could have also used the STS-1 patch, cycling in and out with Gagarin's pic, but I was too busy elsewhere that day. We'll re-visit this next year. -- PFHLai 10:05, 2005 Apr 23 (UTC)

Why is this locked anyway?--Alexandre Van de Sande 17:36, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, everything on the MainPage is "locked" to avoid vandalism. -- PFHLai 10:05, 2005 Apr 23 (UTC)

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Needs to be replaced. Would do it my self, but am at work. Admrb♉ltz (T | C) 00:13, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

it's also my birthday >_>;; --Keatsta 02:49, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Columbia

Columbia was actually the second space shuttle (after the Enterprise), though the first opperational shuttle. The portion of this page that links to the main page should be modified accordingly. —ScouterSig 17:58, 12 April 2007 (UTC)