MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · April 12
THE DAY IN HISTORY · APRIL 12
April 12 in history
1864 — Fort Pillow
12 Apr 1864 — Confederate troops under Forrest massacre surrendering soldiers, most of them Black, after the fort has fallen — perhaps 200 dead. Named here soberly for what it was: the war’s racial hatred, armed. “Remember Fort Pillow” became the cry of Black regiments.
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1945
Franklin Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs. Harry Truman, president for minutes, is told for the first time about the atomic bomb.
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