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What happened on May 12
- May 12, 1082 Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austria
- May 12, 1191 Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
- May 12, 1215 English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country
- May 12, 1264 "The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins."
- May 12, 1328 "Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice."
- May 12, 1328 Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V
- May 12, 1364 "Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, was founded in Krakw, Poland."
- May 12, 1459 Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
- May 12, 1525 Battle at B�blingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel W�rttembergse farmers
- May 12, 1534 W�rttemberg becomes Lutheran
- May 12, 1551 "National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, was founded in Lima, Peru."
- May 12, 1551 "San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens"
- May 12, 1588 Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris France
- May 12, 1588 French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city.
- May 12, 1604 Spanish garrison of Aardenburg surrenders to Mauritius
- May 12, 1640 Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV
- May 12, 1641 Prince Willem II (14) marries English princess Henriette Mary Stuart (9)
- May 12, 1689 England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg
- May 12, 1689 King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
- May 12, 1701 Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701)
- May 12, 1733 Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague
- May 12, 1776 "Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns"
- May 12, 1777 The first ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-New York Gazette)
- May 12, 1780 Charleston SC falls to the British (Revolutionary War)
- May 12, 1789 Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers
- May 12, 1792 Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
- May 12, 1821 The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
- May 12, 1849 Willem Alexander PFL crowned king Willem III in Amsterdam
- May 12, 1862 Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge LA
- May 12, 1862 "U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana."
- May 12, 1863 Battle of Raymond MS
- May 12, 1864 "Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia"
- May 12, 1864 Battle of Todd's Tavern VA (Sheridan's Raid)
- May 12, 1864 Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River (Fort Darling)
- May 12, 1864 US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to Brigadier-General
- May 12, 1865 "Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas"
- May 12, 1870 Manitoba becomes a Canadian province
- May 12, 1870 Manitoba becomes a province of Canada
- May 12, 1870 "The Manitoba Act was given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15."
- May 12, 1871 Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville KY
- May 12, 1881 "In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate."
- May 12, 1881 "Treaty of Bardo, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate"
- May 12, 1885 "Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada"
- May 12, 1885 "North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Mtis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat."
- May 12, 1890 Louisiana legalized prize fighting
- May 12, 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.
- May 12, 1891 Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname
- May 12, 1897 "1800-1900 year old fossil of ""girl of Yde"" found in Drente Netherlands"
- May 12, 1897 Battle at Thessali�: Turkish army beats Greece
- May 12, 1898 "Louisiana adopts new constitution with ""grandfather clause"" designed to eliminate black voters"
- May 12, 1900 "Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed"
- May 12, 1900 Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city
- May 12, 1901 President McKinley visits San Fransisco
- May 12, 1902 "United Mine Workers leader John Mitchell leads his 147,000 anthracite coal workers out of the pits to begin a 5-month strike that cripples the United States"
- May 12, 1908 "George Bernard Shaws' ""Getting Married"" premieres in London"
- May 12, 1908 Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield
- May 12, 1915 "Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250"
- May 12, 1915 "Franklin K Mathiews, presents the idea of ""Book Week"""
- May 12, 1921 National Hospital Day first observed
- May 12, 1925 Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
- May 12, 1926 General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
- May 12, 1926 "UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends."
- May 12, 1926 Umberto Nobile flies Airship Norge is first vessel to fly over the North Pole
- May 12, 1928 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
- May 12, 1928 Opium laws enforced
- May 12, 1932 Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ
- May 12, 1932 "Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, first appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney"
- May 12, 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 Lindberghs' home."
- May 12, 1932 "The body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, NJ"
- May 12, 1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers
- May 12, 1934 """Cocktails For Two"" by Duke Ellington hits #1"
- May 12, 1937 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of Britain are crowned at Westminster Abbey
- May 12, 1938 Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
- May 12, 1940 French mariners occupy St Maarten
- May 12, 1940 German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug
- May 12, 1940 Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Meuse River
- May 12, 1941 British forces attempt to break out of Tobruk
- May 12, 1941 Great British convoy marches into Alexandria
- May 12, 1941 "Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer in Berlin."
- May 12, 1942 "1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz."
- May 12, 1942 "1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz"
- May 12, 1942 David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
- May 12, 1942 Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
- May 12, 1942 "Russia occupies Crackow, until August 23, 1943"
- May 12, 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."
- May 12, 1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender (WWII)
- May 12, 1943 German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender
- May 12, 1944 "900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Br�x"
- May 12, 1944 Krim purged of Nazi troops
- May 12, 1944 Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat
- May 12, 1948 Queen Wilhelmina resigns
- May 12, 1949 The first foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)
- May 12, 1949 The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.
- May 12, 1949 The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state - the Federal Republic of Germany
- May 12, 1949 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade
- May 12, 1951 "The first H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll"
- May 12, 1952 Gaj Singh crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
- May 12, 1955 The last portion of the IRT Third Avenue Elevated in Manhattan closes.
- May 12, 1956 East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves
- May 12, 1958 """Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu"" by Dicky Doo & The Dont's hits #40"
- May 12, 1958 A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
- May 12, 1959 Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)
- May 12, 1960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
- May 12, 1961 Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time
- May 12, 1962 "Douglas MacArthur delivers his famous ""Duty, Honor, Country"" valedictory speech at West Point."
- May 12, 1963 Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show
- May 12, 1963 Race riot in Birmingham AL
- May 12, 1964 Manlio Brosio chosen as secretary-general of NATO
- May 12, 1965 Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
- May 12, 1965 The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
- May 12, 1965 West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
- May 12, 1966 "Busch Memorial Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals major league baseball team and until 1987, the NFL team of the same name, opens in St. Louis, Missouri."
- May 12, 1967 "At Queen Elizabeth Hall, England, Pink Floyd stages the first-ever quadraphonic rock concert."
- May 12, 1967 H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- May 12, 1968 """March of Poor"" under rev Abernathy reach Washington DC"
- May 12, 1970 Harry A Blackmun is confirmed by the U S Senate as a Supreme Court justice
- May 12, 1970 Race riots in Augusta GA; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
- May 12, 1973 """Dueling Tubas"" by Martin Mull hits #92"
- May 12, 1975 Mayagez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
- May 12, 1975 The Cambodian Navy seizes the American merchant ship Mayaguez in international waters
- May 12, 1976 Bayern Munich wins 21st Europe Cup 1
- May 12, 1977 Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation
- May 12, 1978 Commerce Department announces that hurricane names will no longer be exclusively female
- May 12, 1978 "In Zare, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba. The government of Zare asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order."
- May 12, 1978 The U S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) decides that hurricanes will no longer be given only female names
- May 12, 1979 Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
- May 12, 1980 The first nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)
- May 12, 1981 Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a republican campaign for political status to be granted to IRA prisoners.
- May 12, 1982 "During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Ftima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, decided that the Pope must be killed for being an ""agent of Moscow."""
- May 12, 1982 FC Barcelona wins 22nd Europe Cup II
- May 12, 1982 "In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II"
- May 12, 1983 "Julie Lynne Hayek, (California), crowned 32nd Miss USA"
- May 12, 1984 """White Horse"" by Laid Back hits #26"
- May 12, 1984 Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on the same hole
- May 12, 1984 South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for first time in 22 years
- May 12, 1984 World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
- May 12, 1985 Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as first woman Conservative rabbi
- May 12, 1986 "Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is first to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat CA"
- May 12, 1986 Kristeen Garcia is born.
- May 12, 1989 """Entertainment Tonight"" performs their 2,000th TV performance"
- May 12, 1989 "A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train derails on the very steep Cajon Pass in San Bernardino, California, killing four people."
- May 12, 1989 Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
- May 12, 1990 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts)
- May 12, 1990 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million
- May 12, 1990 "Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew ""Dice"" Clay's hosting"
- May 12, 1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - Adamski - Killer
- May 12, 1991 "A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest"
- May 12, 1992 The first Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest
- May 12, 1993 "Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's ""Wonder Years"" in Netherlands"
- May 12, 1993 "Last broadcast of ""Cheers"" on NBC-TV"
- May 12, 1993 NBC TV airs the final episode of the hit comedy Cheers
- May 12, 1993 Parma wins 33rd Europe Cup II
- May 12, 1994 UK opposition leader John Smith dies in a London hospital after two serious heart attacks.
- May 12, 1995 Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)
- May 12, 1997 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea
- May 12, 1997 Personal pposting - David Walter is born
- May 12, 1997 Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
- May 12, 1997 "Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is first to swim from Cuba to Florida"
- May 12, 1997 Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami
- May 12, 1999 David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament.
- May 12, 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."
- May 12, 2003 Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.
- May 12, 2003 "The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26."
- May 12, 2006 "Justin Gatlin ties the 100 metres sprint world record with a time of 9.77 seconds in Doha, Qatar."
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