How to pronounce “april 12” in English

Now, we started the project on April 12.

What's happened of course is this: according to a statement released by the Soviet Union's TASS News Service on April 12, 1961, "After the successful completion of the planned investigations

from a morning paper, the last of which was the shocking notice, complete with photograph, that President Roosevelt had died suddenly in Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945.