GlyphSignal — 2022-04-12 Top Wikipedia Reads

2022-04-12

Top reads and historical moments for this date. 6 min read

Gilbert Gottfried

1,039,245 views · 1 min read

Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was best known for his exaggerated shrill voice, strong New York dialect, his squint, and his edgy, often controversial sense of humor. His numerous roles in film and television included voicing Iago in The Walt Disney Company's Aladdin franchise …

Montserrat Caballé

232,977 views

María de Montserrat Bibiana Concepción Caballé i Folch or Folc, simply known as Montserrat Caballé, was a Spanish operat…

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

216,724 views

On 24 February 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, starting the curr…

205,563 views

183,104 views

175,561 views

160,676 views

Ventricular tachycardia

156,066 views

Jimmy Savile

149,465 views

Nelson Peltz

147,568 views

RRR

139,897 views

Lists of deaths by year

137,408 views

Share 𝕏 f w r

On This Day

10 events

2014

Great_Fire_of_Valparaíso

A fire broke out near Valparaíso, Chile, eventually destroying at least 2,500 homes and leaving approximately 11,000 people homeless (damage pictured).

2013

April_2013_Kidal_attack

Four Chadian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing by jihadist rebels in Kidal, Mali.

2012

2012_Guinea-Bissau_coup_d'état

The Guinea-Bissau military seized control in a coup amid a presidential election, later handing power to a transitional administration under Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo.

1993

Bosnian_War

Bosnian War: NATO forces began Operation Deny Flight (aircraft pictured) to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered by the United Nations Security Council.

1983

Harold_Washington

Harold Washington was elected as the first African-American mayor of Chicago.

1980

Terry_Fox

Canadian athlete Terry Fox embarked on an east-to-west "Marathon of Hope" from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a prosthetic leg to raise funds for cancer research.

1980

Samuel_Doe

Samuel Doe took control of Liberia in a coup d'état, overthrowing President William Tolbert and ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession.

1973

Gravedigger

About 1,700 gravediggers in New York City began a 12-week strike, causing a delay in the burial of roughly 1,400 bodies in the city.

1961

Vostok_1

Aboard Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin performed the first human spaceflight, completing one orbit of Earth in 108 minutes.

1910

SMS_Zrínyi

SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched in Trieste.