Rare photograph of Roosevelt in a wheelchair, with
Fala and Ruthie Bie, the daughter of caretakers at
his Hyde Park estate, February 1941.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945),

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd
president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his
death in 1945.

He is the longest-serving U.S. president and the only one to
have served more than two terms.

On April 12, at the Little White House, he sat for a portrait by
painter Elizabeth Shoumatoff. He told Shoumatoff, "I have a
terrific headache."

At 3:35 p.m. that day, his doctor Howard Bruenn diagnosed
a massive intracerebral hemorrhage and pronounced him
dead at age 63.

The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when
Confederate forces opened fire on the Union-held Fort
Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.

Following a 34-hour bombardment, U.S. Major Robert
Anderson surrendered the fort, prompting President
Lincoln to call for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the
rebellion.    
    
Thus four of the bloodiest years in American history
began.

The space shuttle Columbia was launched from Cape Canaveral,
Florida, becoming the first reusable manned spacecraft to travel
into space.

Piloted by astronauts Robert L. Crippen and John W. Young, the Columbia undertook a 54-hour space flight of 36 orbits before successfully touching down at California’s Edwards Air Force
Base on April 14.

Young and Crippen.