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| May 12th |
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| About May 12th is the 132nd day of the year (133rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 233 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. May 12th is International Nurses Day, which commemorates the birth of Florence Nightingale in 1820. Births 1820 - Florence Nightingale, British nurse 1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman 1880 - Lincoln Ellsworth, scientist 1895 - William Giauque, chemist, Nobel laureate 1907 - Katharine Hepburn, actress (Love Among the Ruins) 1910 - Charles B. Fulton, jurist 1912 - Archibald Cox , U.S. Solicitor General 1914 - James Bacon, journalist 1914 - Howard K. Smith, journalist 1915 - Mary Kay Ash, businesswoman 1925 - Yogi Berra, professional baseball player 1928 - Burt Bacharach, composer 1928 - Henry Cosby, African-American songwriter 1936 - Tom Snyder,television personality 1936 - Frank Stella,painter 1937 - George Carlin, comedian 1938 - Millie Perkins,film actress 1939 - Ron Ziegler, White House Press Secretary 1942 - Billy Swan, songwriter and singer 1946 - L. Neil Smith, science fiction author 1947 - Micheline Lanctôt, film actor, director and screenwriter 1947 - Catherine Yronwode, writer and editor 1948 - David Heineman , Nebraska governor 1950 - Bruce Boxleitner, actor 1950 - Billy Squier, singer 1957 - Lou Whitaker, professional baseball player 1958 - Eric Singer, drummer 1959 - Ving Rhames, actor 1961 - Paul Begala, political commentator 1961 - Lar Park Lincoln, actress 1962 - Emilio Estevez, actor 1963 - Jerry Trimble, actor 1963 - Vanessa A. Williams, actress 1966 - Stephen Baldwin, actor 1968 - Tony Hawk, skateboarder 1968 - Scott Schwartz, actor 1969 - Kim Fields, actress 1969 - Cesar Millan, professional dog trainer 1970 - Jim Furyk, professional golfer 1970 - Samantha Mathis, actress 1971 - Jamie Luner, actress (Melrose Place) 1971 - Doug Basham, professional wrestler 1973 - Kendra Kassebaum, stage actress 1977 - Rebecca Herbst, actress 1978 - Jason Biggs, actor 1978 - Malin Akerman, actress, model, singer 1979 - Steve Smith, professional football player 1985 - Tally Hall, soccer player 1992 - Malcolm David Kelley, actor 1995 - Luke Benward, actor Deaths 1864 - J. E. B. Stuart, Confederate Army general 1925 - Amy Lowell, poet 1944 - Max Brand, author 1956 - Louis Calhern, actor 1973 - Art Pollard, racecar driver 1992 - Robert Reed, actor 1992 - Lenny Montana, actor 2000 - Adam Petty, race car driver 2001 - Perry Como, singer, television personality 2002 - Erich Kulas, professional wrestler 2006 - Gillespie V. Montgomery,U.S. representative 2008 - Robert Rauschenberg, artist Events 1780 - Charleston , South Carolina is taken by British forces during the American Revolutionary War. 1862 - U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana . 1863 - Battle of Raymond takes place during the American Civil War, where two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign. 1864 - The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House takes place, where thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle". 1865 - The Battle of Palmito Ranch takes place during the American Civil War, where the first day of the last major land action takes place, resulting in a Confederate victory. 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. 1955 - The last portion of the IRT Third Avenue Elevated in Manhattan closes. 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 the United States Military Academy. 1967 - The first Jimi Hendrix Experience album, Are You Experienced, is released. 1978 - In Zaïre, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba . The local government asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order. 2002 - Former US 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. 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. |
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