On this day — April 12

Viktor Orban is defeated in the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election by Peter Magyar and TISZA, marking the first change in government in Hungary for over a decade.

killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying more than 2,500 homes.

Mali.

A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28.

killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.

killing seven people and wounding 104.

an American McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle shoots a passenger train, killing between 20 and 60 people.

the resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Resort Paris.

killing five people.

The STS-1 mission.