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Events from History on May 12

1082 : Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr
1215 : English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country
1328 : Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V
1459 : Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
1525 : Battle at B”blingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wrttembergse farmers
1534 : Wrttemberg becomes Lutherian
1551 : San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens
1588 : Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris
1604 : Spanish garrison of Aardenburg surrenders to Mauritius
1640 : Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV
1641 : Prince Willem II (14) marries Engl princess Henriette Mary Stuart (9)
1689 : England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg
1695 : English king Willem III departs to Netherlands
1701 : Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701)
1733 : Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague
1776 : Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns
1777 : 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)
1780 : British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina
1780 : Charleston, SC falls to British (Revolutionary War)
1789 : Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It
1789 : later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses
1792 : Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
1832 : Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'elisir d'amore," premieres in Milan
1835 : Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile
1849 : Willem Alexander PFL crowned king Willem III in Amsterdam
1862 : Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana
1863 : Battle of Raymond, Miss
1864 : Battle of Drewry's Bluff, VA (Ft Darling)
1864 : Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
1864 : Battle of Todd's Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid)
1864 : Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River
1864 : US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general
1865 : Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
1870 : Manitoba becomes a province of Canada
1871 : Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Ky
1874 : US Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized
1875 : 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
1877 : Ottawa Rough Riders 1st outside competition vs Britannia
1881 : France sign treaty of protection with Tunisia colony
1881 : Treaty of Bardo, Tunis becomes a French protectorate
1885 : Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada
1888 : Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
1890 : Louisiana legalized prize fighting
1891 : Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname
1894 : Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC
1897 : 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente Neth
1897 : Battle at Thessali‰: Turkish army beats Greece
1898 : Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause"
1898 : designed to eliminate black voters
1900 : Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed
1900 : Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city
1901 : Pres McKinley visits SF
1908 : George Bernard Shaws' "Getting Married," premieres in London
1908 : Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield
1910 : 2nd NAACP conference (NYC)
1910 : Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0
1915 : Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250
1915 : Franklin K Mathiews, presents idea of "Book Week"
1919 : Yanks & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15
1921 : National Hospital Day 1st observed
1924 : 7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Ind
1925 : Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
1926 : Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole
1926 : British general strike ends
1926 : Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1926 : Gen Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
1926 : Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole
1928 : Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
1928 : Opium laws enforced
1929 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
1930 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)
1932 : Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ
1932 : Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
1933 : Administration form to help the needy & farmers
1933 : Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment
1936 : Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Poisoned Kiss," premieres in London
1937 : George VI crowned King of England
1937 : St Louis Cards beat Phila Phillies, 15-3
1938 : Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
1940 : French mariners occupy St Maarten
1940 : German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug
1940 : Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
1941 : Great British convoy marches into Alexandria
1942 : 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz
1942 : David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
1942 : Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
1942 : Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943
1943 : Axis forces in North Africa surrender
1943 : British premier Winston Churchill arrives in US
1943 : German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender
1944 : 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Brx
1944 : Krim purged of nazi troops
1944 : Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat
1948 : Queen Wilhelmina resigns
1949 : 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)
1949 : West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade
1950 : Darius Milhauds opera "Bolivar," premieres in Paris
1951 : 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
1952 : Charlton Playground named in Bronx
1953 : KUHT TV channel 8 in Houston, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 : Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0)
1956 : Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Giants, 3-0
1956 : East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves
1958 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1959 : "Nervous Set" opens at Henry Miller's Theater NYC for 23 performances
1959 : Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)
1960 : Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
1962 : Grevelingendam closes
1962 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 : Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show
1963 : Race riot in Birmingham Alabama
1964 : Manlio Brosio chosen as sec-gen of NATO
1965 : Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
1966 : St Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns
1967 : H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student
1967 : Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
1967 : Provo disbands in Neth
1968 : "March of Poor" under rev Abernathy reach Washington, DC
1968 : WSKG TV channel 46 in Binghamton, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 : Kenneth H Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH
1970 : Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run
1970 : Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court
1970 : KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 : Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
1970 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 : Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St Tropez Town Hall
1972 : Milwaukee Brewers beat Minn Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)
1972 : Paul McCartney & Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
1975 : US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces
1977 : 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London)
1977 : Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation
1978 : Commerce Dept says hurricane names will no longer be only female
1979 : Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
1980 : 1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)
1981 : "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" opens at Nederlander NYC for 333 perfs
1981 : Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minn
1982 : In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior
1982 : Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)
1982 : US Football League forms
1982 : to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II
1983 : Julie Lynne Hayek, (California), crowned 32nd Miss USA
1983 : Oilers 3-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1984 : Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-D
1984 : France performs nuclear test
1984 : Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on same hole
1984 : S Afr prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years
1984 : World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
1985 : Amy Eilberg is ordained in NY as 1st woman Conservative rabbi
1986 : Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph
1986 : Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph
1986 : President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator
1986 : on a level course, Big Sand Flat, Calif
1988 : "Carrie" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 5 performances
1989 : "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance
1989 : Last graffiti covered NYC subway car retired
1989 : Retired Brit pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
1990 : 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts)
1990 : Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting
1990 : Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million
1990 : Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest
1991 : A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a
1991 : rare tree in the Pacific Northwest
1992 : 1st Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest
1993 : Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands
1993 : Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV
1993 : Last broadcast of "Knots landing" on CBS
1994 : WIBC Bowling Queens won by Anne Marie Duggan
1995 : Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)
1995 : Jose Mesa gets 1st of his M.L. record 37 consecutive saves
1996 : "Inherit the Wind" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 45 performances
1996 : "Night of the Iguana" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 perfs
1996 : 42nd McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies
1996 : Yankees losing 8-0 to Chicago White Sox, come back to win 9-8
1997 : 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea
1997 : Angels scores 13 in 7th vs White Sox
1997 : Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
1997 : Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida
1997 : Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami
2002 : Patna bound Shramheevi Express derails - 12 killed

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