Notable Historical Events on May 12th
May 12th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
254 |
Stephan I replaces Lucius I as Catholic Pope |
919 |
Duke Henry of Saxony becomes King Henry I of Oostfrankischreich |
1082 |
Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr |
1215 |
English barons serve ultimatum on King John; leads to Magna Carta |
1328 |
Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV and assembly of priests select P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V |
1328 |
Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice. |
1459 |
Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur |
1525 |
Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttemberg farmers |
1534 |
German Duchy of Wurttemberg becomes Lutheran under Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg |
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 |
1689 |
England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg |
1695 |
English king William 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 (Revolutionary War) |
1789 |
Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses |
1789 |
William Wilberforce makes his first major speech on abolition in UK House of Commons, reasons the slave trade morally reprehensible and an issue of natural justice |
1792 |
Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented |
1797 |
First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice. |
1821 |
The first major battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi. |
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 |
US Civil war: Battle of Drewry's Bluff, VA (Ft Darling) |
1864 |
US Civil War Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia |
1864 |
Battle of Todd's Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid), cavalry battle during US Civil War |
1864 |
US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigadier 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 |
1873 |
Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned King of Sweden. |
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 |
Treaty of Bardo, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate |
1885 |
The Battle of Batoche concludes. Louis Riel and and the Metis defeated by Frederick Middleton, leds to collapse of Provincial Government of Saskatchewan and surrender of Riel |
1888 |
Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale |
1890 |
Louisiana legalized prize fighting |
1890 |
The first-ever official cricket County Championship match begins. Yorkshire beats Gloucestershire by eight wickets at Bristol. George Ulyett scores the first century in the competition. |
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, Netherlands |
1897 |
Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece |
1898 |
Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters |
1900 |
Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed |
1900 |
Lord Roberts' troops occupy Crown city |
1901 |
US President McKinley visits San Francisco |
1902 |
Some 140,000 miners of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania go out on a strike called by the United Mine Workers after the owners have refused to recognize the UMW, let alone negotiate or submit to arbitration; Roosevelt later threatens to have the army run the mine |
1908 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Getting Married" premieres in London |
1908 |
Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield |
1909 |
34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8 |
1910 |
2nd NAACP conference (NYC) |
1910 |
Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0 |
1911 |
American economic expert W Morgan Schuster arrives by invitation to assume almost dictatorial power over Persia's finances; a move resented by Russia |
1913 |
Harry Green runs world record marathon (2:38:16.2) |
1915 |
Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250 |
1915 |
Franklin K Mathiews presents idea of "Book Week" |
1916 |
James Connolly and Sean McDermott are executed following their involvement in the Easter Rising in Dublin |
1917 |
42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4 |
1917 |
43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6 |
1919 |
Yanks & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15 |
1919 |
The Transvaal British Indian Association calls a mass meeting to organise opposition to the proposed Asiatics (Land and Trading) Amendment Act; in the Act, Transvaal Indians are prohibited from owning shares in limited companies |
1921 |
National Hospital Day 1st observed |
1923 |
49th Preakness: Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6 |
1924 |
50th Preakness: John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2 |
1924 |
7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Ind |
1925 |
Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics |
1925 |
Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament |
1926 |
Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole |
1926 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony premieres in Leningrad |
1926 |
General Józef Piłsudski returns to power in Poland after coup d'état against the Witos regime |
1926 |
Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole |
1926 |
British general strike ends, but mine workers stay on strike |
1928 |
Benito Mussolini ends women'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 |
1933 |
Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers |
1934 |
"Cocktails For Two" by Duke Ellington hits #1 |
1934 |
60th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2 |
1936 |
Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Poisoned Kiss" premieres in London |
1937 |
St Louis Cards beat Philadelphia Phillies, 15-3 |
1937 |
Coronation of King George VI of Great Britain (and his other realms and territories beyond the sea) at Westminster Abbey. |
1938 |
Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) |
1940 |
French mariners occupy St Maarten |
1940 |
German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug |
1940 |
Nazi blitzkrieg conquest of France began by crossing Muese River |
1941 |
British forces march into Alexandria |
1941 |
Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. |
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 USA |
1943 |
German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender |
1944 |
900+ 8th US Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Brux |
1944 |
Crimea purged of Nazi troops |
1944 |
Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat |
1948 |
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates |
1949 |
1st foreign woman ambassador received in USA (Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India) |
1950 |
Darius Milhauds opera "Bolivar" premieres in Paris |
1951 |
1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll |
1952 |
Charlton Playground named in Bronx |
1952 |
Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur. |
1953 |
KUHT TV channel 8 (PBS) in Houston, TX, 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 |
1957 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Smokey Golf Open |
1958 |
"Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts hits #40 |
1958 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
1959 |
"Nervous Set" opens at Henry Miller's Theater NYC for 23 performances |
1960 |
Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special |
1961 |
Mikhail Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time |
1962 |
Grevelingen dam closes |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1963 |
Bob Dylan walks out of the "Ed Sullivan Show" |
1963 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Alpine Civitan Golf Open |
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 |
Provo disbands in Neth Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
1968 |
"March of Poor" under Rev Abernathy reach Washington, DC |
1968 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
1968 |
WSKG TV channel 46 (PBS) in Binghamton, NY, 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 |
1972 |
Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13) |
1972 |
Paul McCartney & Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb" |
1973 |
6th ABA championship: Indiana Pacers beat Ky Colonels, 4 games to 3 |
1973 |
Dueling Tubas by Martin Mull hits #92 |
1974 |
28th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee, 4 games to 3 |
1974 |
Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic |
1975 |
US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces |
1976 |
Bayern Munich wins 21st Europe Cup 1 |
1977 |
1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London) |
1977 |
Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation |
1978 |
US 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) |
1980 |
West Ham United wins the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley Stadium. Midfield playmaker Trevor Brooking scores the winner with a rare header. |
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 |
FC Barcelona wins 22nd Europe Cup II |
1982 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich) |
1982 |
US Football League forms |
1982 |
In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior 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 |
South African prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years |
1984 |
White Horse by Laid Back hits #26 |
1984 |
World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans |
1985 |
Amy Eilberg is ordained in NY as 1st woman Conservative rabbi |
1985 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
1986 |
President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator |
1986 |
Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, Calif |
1988 |
"Carrie" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1989 |
"Entertainment Tonight" makes 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 |
Comic Relief USA '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million |
1990 |
Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting |
1991 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic |
1991 |
A new cancer drug is announced which can only be found in bark of a 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 "Knots landing" on CBS |
1993 |
Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV |
1993 |
Parma wins 33rd Europe Cup II |
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 |
1995 |
Martin Brodeur ties NHL record getting his 3rd playoff shutout in 4 |
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 |
1999 |
Sir 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. |
2007 |
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 |
2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people |
2010 |
An Afriqiyah Airways Flight crashes and kills everyone but one person on board. |
2012 |
The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon |
2013 |
Pope Francis canonizes the 813 martyrs of Otranto as Saints |
2013 |
Paris Saint-Germain win the Ligue 1 French football title |
2016 |
Hyperloop One debuts in the Nevada desert |
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