The
12t o Mey
is the 132t day o the year (133t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 233 days ti come.
Events
- 1551
- The Naitional University o St. Marcos is foondit in
Lima
,
Peru
.
- 1873
- Coronation o
Oscar II o Swaden
.
- 1926
- The
Italian
-built airship "Norge" becomes the first vessel tae fly ower the
North Pole
.
- 1937
- Coronation o King
George VI
o the
Unitit Kinrick
.
- 1941
-
Konrad Zuse
presents the Z3 programmable computer.
- 1949
- The
Soviet Union
lifts its blockade o
Berlin
.
- 1965
-
Spacecraft
"Luna 5" crashes on the
Muin
.
- 1994
- Scots politeecian an UK Labour Pairty leader
John Smith
dees suddenly agit 55.
- 1999
- The first electit
Scots Pairlament
convenes for the first time.
- 2002
- Umwhile US Preses
Jimmy Carter
visits
Cuba
.
- 2003
- Bombins bi
Al-Qaeda
in
Riyadh
,
Saudi Arabie
, kill 26 fowk.
- 2004
-
Eurovision Sang Contest
stairtit in
Istanbul
,
Turkey
.
- 2008
-
2008 Sichuan yirdquauk
: A major
yirdquauk
hits
Sichuan
province in the
Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
, killin 69,000 fowk.
- 2010
- The Unity Brig ower the Ruvoma River atween
Tanzanie
an
Mozambique
opens.
- 2015
-
Nepal
is struck bi a seicont major
yirdquauk
in 17 days, killin 200 fowk.
- 2016
-
Michel Temer
becomes interim
Preses
o
Brazil
efter the impeachment o
Dilma Rousseff
.
- 2017
- A massive cyber attack affects
computers
aroond the warld, incluidin computer seestems at the
Naitional Heal Service
an
FedEx
.
- 2018
-
Netta Barzilai
o
Israel
wins the
Eurovision Sang Contest
in
Lisbon
; A stage invasion occurs durin the performance o the
Unitit Kinrick
's entrant,
SuRie
.
- 2019
-
Manchester City F.C.
wins the Inglis Premier League teetle wi 98 pynts;
Liverpool F.C.
finish seicont wi 97 pynts, a record for a seicont-placit team in the league.
Births
- 1496
-
Gustav I o Swaden
(d.
1560
)
- 1590
-
Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke o Tuscany
(d.
1621
)
- 1670
-
Augustus II the Strang
, King o
Poland
(d.
1733
)
- 1753
-
George Gleig
, Scots meenister (d.
1840
)
- 1763
-
John Bell
, Scots surgeon (d.
1820
)
- 1803
-
Justus von Liebig
, German chemist (d.
1873
)
- 1812
-
Edward Lear
, Inglis poet an illustrator (d.
1888
)
- 1820
-
Florence Nightingale
, Inglis nurse (d.
1910
)
- 1828
-
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Inglis penter an poet (d.
1882
)
- 1842
-
Jules Massenet
, French componer (d.
1912
)
- 1889
-
Otto Frank
, faither o
Anne Frank
(d.
1980
)
- 1907
-
Katharine Hepburn
, American actress (d.
2003
)
- 1910
-
Dorothy Hodgkin
, Inglis biochemist (d.
1994
)
- 1921
-
Farley Mowat
, Canadian author an environmentalist (d.
2014
)
- 1925
-
Yogi Berra
, American basebaw player an coach (d.
2015
)
- 1928
-
Burt Bacharach
, American componer, producer an sangster
- 1937
-
George Carlin
, American actor an comedian (d.
2008
)
- 1948
-
John Blackley
, Scots fitbawer
- 1948
-
Steve Winwood
, Inglis muisicker
- 1962
-
Emilio Estevez
, American actor
- 1967
-
Bill Shorten
, Australie politeecian
- 1970
-
David A. R. White
, American actor, director an writer
- 1975
-
Jonah Lomu
, New Zealand rugby player (d.
2015
)
- 1977
-
Graeme Dott
, Scots snooker player
- 1981
-
Rami Malek
, American actor
- 1990
-
Etika
, American YouTuber (d.
2019
)
- 1994
-
Billy King
, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
- 1012
-
Pape Sergius IV
- 1884
-
Bedrich Smetana
, Czech componer (b.
1824
)
- 1930
-
John Wheatley
, Scots politeecian (b.
1869
)
- 1970
-
Nelly Sachs
, German writer (b.
1891
)
- 1994
-
John Smith
, Scots politeecian (b.
1938
)
- 2003
-
Jim Clunie
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1933
)
- 2008
-
Irena Sendler
, Pols social worker an humanitarian (b.
1910
)
- 2014
-
Hugh McLeod
, Scots rugby union player (b.
1932
)
- 2014
-
Sarat Pujari
, Indie actor, director an film producer (b.
1934
)
- 2017
-
Mauno Koivisto
,
Preses
o
Finland
(b.
1923
)
- 2017
-
Yu So-chow
, Cheenese actress (b.
1930
)
Halidays
- Internaitional Nurses' Day
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