About May 12
May 12, 2023 is the 132nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 233 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Taurus is the sun 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 274 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 12
- 922 –After much hardship, Abbasid envoy Ahmad ibn Fadlan arrived in the lands of Volga Bulgars.
- 1328 –Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
- 1551 –National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
- 1821 –The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
- 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.
- 1932 –Ten weeks after his abduction Charles Jr., 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.
- 1942 –Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
- 1945 –Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
- 1955 –Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends.
- 1962 –Douglas MacArthur delivers his Duty, Honor, Country valedictory speech at the United States Military Academy.
- 1975 –Mayagüez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
- 1978 –In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga). The local government asks the U.S.A., France and Belgium to restore order.
- 1981 –Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.
- 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 –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 –Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
- 2006 –Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
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