1912
Apr 12, Clara Barton (b.1821), the founder of the American Red Cross, died at her home in Glen Echo, Maryland at age 90.

1927
Apr 12, The British Cabinet came out in favor of women voting rights

2000
Apr 12, Attorney General Janet Reno met in Miami with the US relatives of Elian Gonzalez, after which she ordered them to bring the six-year-old boy to an airport the next day so he could be taken to a reunion with his father in Washington. Elian was seized by federal agents ten days after Reno’s order to turn him over.

2003
Apr 12, Women's activists took their fight against the all-male Augusta National as close as they could get to the Masters tournament.

2008
Apr 12, In Ecuador 5 young British women were killed in a bus crash while the 15 other people on board were injured.

2008
Apr 12, Investigators in Turkey found the body of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo (33), an Italian artist known as Pippa Bacca. She was last seen on March 31 hitchhiking in a wedding gown. She was on her way to Israel in a plea for peace. Police detained a man suspected of killing her. In June, 2009, Murat Karatas was sentenced to life in prison for her rape and murder.

2011
Apr 12, In New York Lashanda Armstrong drove 3 of her 4 children into the Hudson River in Newburgh following a domestic dispute. Her 10-year-old son survived by crawling out her car window.

2011
Apr 12, In Bahrain Zainab al-Khawaja (27), the daughter of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja (50), a prominent human rights activist, went on hunger strike to protest the arrest of several family members, including her father and her husband, over anti-government demonstrations. At least 29 people have been killed since the protests began on Feb. 14. Detainee Karim Fakhrawy of "Al Wasat" died under police custody.