WillDekkard
05-12-2010, 05:18 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 12th
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* 1191 Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre who is crowned Queen consort of England the same day.
* 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, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Krakσw, Poland.
* 1551 National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is 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.
* 1743 Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned King of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1780 American Revolutionary War: Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
* 1797 First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
* 1821 The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
* 1862 U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
* 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps (ACW) 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 American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".
* 1865 American Civil War: the Battle of Palmito Ranch: the first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
* 1870 The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
* 1873 Oscar II 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 Mιtis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
* 1890 The first-ever official County Championship match begins. Yorkshire beats 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 Lindberghs' home.
* 1937 George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
* 1941 Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
* 1942 World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov in the eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
* 1942 Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
* 1945 Argentinian labour leader Josι Peter declares the Federaciσn Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
* 1949 The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
* 1949 The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state the Federal Republic of Germany.
* 1952 Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
* 1955 The last section 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.
* 1965 The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
* 1965 West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
* 1967 At Queen Elizabeth Hall, England, Pink Floyd stages the first-ever quadraphonic rock concert.
* 1975 Mayagόez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
* 1978 In Zaοre, 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.
* 1981 Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a republican campaign for political status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.
* 1982 During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fαtima, 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, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow".
* 1999 David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament.
* 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 The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26.
* 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.
* 2006 Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in Sγo Paulo, Brazil, leaving at least 150 dead.
* 2007 Karachi riots , which killed over 50 people in Karachi and above 100 injured, on the arrival of Chief Justice of Pakistan; Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in Karachi city.
* 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
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- May 12th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1191 Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre who is crowned Queen consort of England the same day.
* 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, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Krakσw, Poland.
* 1551 National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is 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.
* 1743 Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned King of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1780 American Revolutionary War: Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
* 1797 First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
* 1821 The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
* 1862 U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
* 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps (ACW) 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 American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".
* 1865 American Civil War: the Battle of Palmito Ranch: the first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
* 1870 The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
* 1873 Oscar II 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 Mιtis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
* 1890 The first-ever official County Championship match begins. Yorkshire beats 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 Lindberghs' home.
* 1937 George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
* 1941 Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
* 1942 World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov in the eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
* 1942 Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
* 1945 Argentinian labour leader Josι Peter declares the Federaciσn Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
* 1949 The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
* 1949 The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state the Federal Republic of Germany.
* 1952 Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
* 1955 The last section 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.
* 1965 The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
* 1965 West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
* 1967 At Queen Elizabeth Hall, England, Pink Floyd stages the first-ever quadraphonic rock concert.
* 1975 Mayagόez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
* 1978 In Zaοre, 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.
* 1981 Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a republican campaign for political status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.
* 1982 During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fαtima, 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, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow".
* 1999 David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament.
* 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 The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26.
* 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.
* 2006 Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in Sγo Paulo, Brazil, leaving at least 150 dead.
* 2007 Karachi riots , which killed over 50 people in Karachi and above 100 injured, on the arrival of Chief Justice of Pakistan; Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in Karachi city.
* 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
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