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1861:The first battle of the Civil War begins when Confederate troops under Gen. P.T. Beauregard open fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, S.C. Two days later, President Abraham Lincoln will issue a proclamation calling for volunteers to defend the Union. Over the next four years, the Civil War will claim more than 620,000 lives.
1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Warm Springs, Ga., three months into his fourth term in office. Vice President Harry S. Truman assumes the presidency the same day.
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, completing a single orbit around Earth in his Vostok 1 capsule before safely returning to Earth in less than two hours.
1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Warm Springs, Ga., three months into his fourth term in office. Vice President Harry S. Truman assumes the presidency the same day.
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, completing a single orbit around Earth in his Vostok 1 capsule before safely returning to Earth in less than two hours.
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