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May 12 Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years ). There are 233 days remaining.
Events
1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre .1264 - The Battle of Lewes , between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester , begins.1328 - Antipope Nicholas V , a claimant to the papacy , is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice .1364 - Jagiellonian University in Kraków , the oldest university in Poland , was founded in Kraków , Poland .1551 - National University of San Marcos , the oldest university in the Americas , was founded in Lima , Peru .1588 - French Wars of Religion : Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city.1689 - King William's War : William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France .1780 - American Revolutionary War : Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.1797 - First Coalition : Napoleon I of France conquers Venice .1862 - U.S federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana .1864 - American Civil War : Battle of Spotsylvania Court House : Thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".1870 - The Manitoba Act was given the Royal Assent , paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15 .1873 - Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned King of Sweden .1881 - In North Africa , Tunisia becomes a French protectorate .1885 - North-West Rebellion : The four-day Battle of Batoche , pitting rebel French Canadians against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.1890 - The first-ever official County Championship match begins. Yorkshire beat Gloucestershire by eight wickets at Bristol . George Ulyett scores the first century in the competition.1926 - UK General Strike 1926 : In the United Kingdom , a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.1932 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home.1937 - Coronation of King George VI of Britain at Westminster Abbey .1942 - World War II : Second Battle of Kharkov – In the eastern Ukraine , the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.1942 - 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz .1949 - Cold War : The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin .1952 - Gaj Singh crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur .1958 - A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada .1962 - Douglas MacArthur delivers his famous "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory speech at West Point .1965 - The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon .1966 - Busch Memorial Stadium , home of the St. Louis Cardinals major league baseball team, opens in St. Louis, Missouri .1967 - At Queen Elizabeth Hall , England , Pink Floyd stages the first-ever quadraphonic rock concert.1970 - Ernie Banks becomes the ninth member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois .1972 - The Rolling Stones release Exile On Main Street ,1975 - Mayagüez incident : The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters .1978 - In Zaire , rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi , the mining center of the province of Shaba . The government of Zaire asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order.1989 A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train derails on Duffy Street on the very steep Cajon Pass in San Bernardino, California 1997 - In the 7th inning of a baseball game between the Anaheim Angels, and the Chicago White Sox,the Angels score 13 runs.1999 - David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament .2000 - The Tate Modern art gallery opens in London .2001 - In Copenhagen , Denmark , Tanel Padar & Dave Benton win the forty-sixth Eurovision Song Contest for Estonia singing "Everybody".2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States , in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution .
Births
1401 - Emperor Shoko of Japan (d. 1428 )1496 - Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560 )1590 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621 )1626 - Louis Hennepin , Flemish Catholic missionary in North America1670 - King Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733 )1700 - Luigi Vanvitelli , Italian architect (d. 1773 )1767 - Manuel de Godoy , Spanish statesman (d. 1851 )1803 - Justus von Liebig , German chemist (d. 1873 )1812 - Edward Lear , English author and poet (d. 1888 )1820 - Florence Nightingale , English nurse (d. 1910 )1828 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti , English poet and painter (d. 1882 )1845 - Gabriel Fauré , French composer (d. 1924 )1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge , U.S. statesman (d. 1924 )1880 - Lincoln Ellsworth , American scientist and polar explorer (d. 1951 )1889 - Otto Frank , German writer, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980 )1892 - Fritz Kortner , Austrian-born director (d. 1970 )1895 - William Giauque , Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982 )1899 - Indra Devi , yogi (d. 2002 )1900 - Helene Weigel , German actress (d. 1971 )1907 - Katharine Hepburn , American actress (d. 2003 )1910 - Charles B. Fulton , American jurist (d. 1996 )1910 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin , British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994 )
1912 - Archibald Cox , U.S. Solicitor General and Watergate special prosecutor (d. 2004 )1914 - Howard K. Smith , American journalist (d. 2002 )1918 - Julius Rosenberg , American spy (d. 1953 )1921 - Joseph Beuys , German artist (d. 1986 )1921 - Farley Mowat , Canadian writer and naturalist1924 - Tony Hancock , American comedian (d. 1968 )1925 - Yogi Berra , baseball player1928 - Burt Bacharach , American composer1935 - Felipe Alou , Dominican Major League Baseball manager1936 - Frank Stella , American painter1936 - Tom Snyder , American journalist and television personality1937 - George Carlin , American comedian1937 - Beryl Burton , English cyclist1939 - Ron Ziegler , White House Press Secretary (d. 2003 )1942 - Ian Dury , British musician (d. 2000 )1948 - Steve Winwood , English singer, songwriter and musician (Blind Faith , Traffic , The Spencer Davis Group )1950 - Bruce Boxleitner , American actor1950 - Billy Squier , American singer, songwriter and guitarist1950 - Gabriel Byrne , Irish actor1955 - Kix Brooks , American musician1961 - Lar Park Lincoln , American actress1962 - Emilio Estevez , American actor1963 - Vanessa A. Williams , American actress1964 - Brett Gurewitz , American guitarist (Bad Religion )1966 - Stephen Baldwin , American actor1968 - Tony Hawk , American skateboarder1969 - Kim Fields , American actress1970 - Mike Weir , Canadian golfer1970 - Jim Furyk , American golfer1975 - Jonah Lomu , New Zealand rugby player1977 - Graeme Dott , Scottish snooker player1978 - Jason Biggs , American actor1985 - Amanda Norris, Vice President of William and Mary1995 - Jean Carlos Chera , Brazilian footballer1995 - Sawyer Sweeten , American actor
Deaths
1003 - Pope Silvester II 1012 - Pope Sergius IV 1382 - Queen Joan I of Naples (b. 1327 )1399 - Demetrius I Starshiy (killed in battle) (b. 1327 )1634 - George Chapman , English writer1641 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford , English statesman (b. 1593 )1684 - Edme Mariotte , French physicist and priest1699 - Lucas Achtschellinck , Flemish painter (b. 1626 )1700 - John Dryden , English writer (b. 1631 )1708 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658 )1748 - Thomas Lowndes , English astronomer (b. 1692 )1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam , French sculptor (b. 1700 )1845 - János Bacsanyi , Hungarian poet (b. 1763 )1859 - Sergei Aksakov , Russian writer (b. 1791 )1860 - Charles Barry , English architect (b. 1795 )1867 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard , German archaeologist (b. 1795 )1884 - Bedřich Smetana , Czech composer (b. 1824 )1889 - John Cadbury , English chocolate entrepreneur (b. 1801 )1907 - Joris-Karl Huysmans , French author (b. 1848 )1925 - Amy Lowell , American poet (b. 1874 )1935 - Józef Piłsudski , Polish statesman (b. 1867 )1944 - Max Brand , American author (b. 1892 )1944 - Q , British writer (b. 1863 )1956 - Louis Calhern , American actor (b. 1895 )1957 - Erich von Stroheim , film director and actor (b. 1885 )1963 - Bobby Kerr , Canadian runner (b. 1882 )1967 - John Masefield , British writer (b. 1878 )1970 - Nelly Sachs , German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891 )1971 - Heinie Manush , baseball player (b. 1901 )1985 - Jean Dubuffet , French painter (b. 1901 )1986 - Elisabeth Bergner , Austrian actress (b. 1897 )1990 - Chen Kenmin , Japanese chef (b. 1912 )1992 - Robert Reed , American actor (b. 1932 )1994 - John Smith , British politician (b. 1938 )1994 - Erik Erikson , German psychoanalyst (b. 1902 )2000 - Adam Petty , American race car driver (b. 1980 )2001 - Perry Como , American singer (b. 1912 )2003 - Sadruddin Aga Khan , French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933 )2005 - Monica Zetterlund , Swedish actress and singer (b. 1937 )2005 - Martin Lings , English Islamic scholar (b. 1909 )
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