What are the important events that happened on May 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 12: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 12 is the 132nd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 233 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 29, 2022 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 458,976 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatriacontadigon’ day.
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Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 255 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 3,429 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 12 Historical Events
- 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 Kraków, Poland.
- 1780 –American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
- 1881 –In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
- 1937 –George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- 1962 –Douglas MacArthur delivers his Duty, Honor, Country valedictory speech at the United States Military Academy.
- 1965 –The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
- 1968 –Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral-Balmoral.
- 2002 –Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the 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 people.
Who were born on May 12?
- 1874 –Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (d. 1929)
- 1918 –Julius Rosenberg, American-born spy for the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
- 1943 –Linda Dano, American Actress
- 1957 –Lou Whitaker, American baseball player
- 1963 –Gavin Hood, South African film director
- 1975 –Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- 1978 –Jason Biggs, American actor
- 1979 –Andre Carter, American football player
- 1979 –Erdinç Saçan, Turkish-Dutch politician
- 1995 –Kenton Duty, American actor
Who died on May 12?
- 1801 –Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)
- 1842 –Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter (b. 1799)
- 1925 –Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
- 1944 –Max Brand, American author (b. 1892)
- 1956 –Louis Calhern, American actor (b. 1895)
- 1966 –Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (b. 1896)
- 1970 –Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
- 1971 –Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901)
- 1990 –Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)
- 1992 –Lenny Montana, American actor (b. 1926)
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