Today is Friday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2013. There are 263 days left in the year.
1111 ― Pope Paschalis II crowns Henry V, Roman emperor
1204 ― Fourth Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople
1654 ― England, Ireland and Scotland unite
1857 ― Gustave Flaubert's “Madame Bovary” published
1877 ― Catcher’s mask first used in a baseball game
1942 ― Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
1966 ― First B-52 bombing on North Vietnam
1969 ― Simon & Garfunkel releases “The Boxer"
1988 ― Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse (first for animal life)
1992 ― Matt Young no-hits Cleveland, but loses 2-1