? The Fourth Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople
? First US colonists on the Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, Washington
The Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, the first battle of the American Civil War
? in South Carolina is attacked by the Confederacy, beginning the American Civil War
? Kuomintang leader begins a counter-revolution by violently suppressing Communist groups
The Vostok 1 spacecraft attached to its launcher
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? Ghana is the first country to approve a new vaccine for malaria, Mosquirix (RTS,S), developed at Oxford University. It is the first major vaccine approved first in Africa.
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Sir Archibald McIndoe was a New Zealand-born surgeon whose pioneering treatment of burns victims during the Second World War revolutionized plastic surgery.
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