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Silence of the Lambs -or- Quiet Youse (ewes) What happened on May 12 Please support our Sponsors - They help us keep this site Alive! 1082 Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austria 1191 Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. 1215 English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country 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. 1328 Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V 1364 Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, was founded in Krakw, Poland. 1459 Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur 1525 Battle at Böblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Württembergse farmers 1534 Württemberg becomes Lutheran 1551 National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, was founded in Lima, Peru. 1551 San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens 1588 Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris France 1588 French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city. 1604 Spanish garrison of Aardenburg surrenders to Mauritius 1640 Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV 1641 Prince Willem II (14) marries English princess Henriette Mary Stuart (9) 1689 England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg 1689 King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France. 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 The first ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-New York Gazette) 1780 Charleston SC falls to the British (Revolutionary War) 1789 Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers 1792 Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented 1821 The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi. 1849 Willem Alexander PFL crowned king Willem III in Amsterdam 1862 Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge LA 1862 U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 1863 Battle of Raymond MS 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 (Fort Darling) 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 Canadian province 1870 Manitoba becomes a province of Canada 1870 The Manitoba Act was given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15. 1871 Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville KY 1881 In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate. 1881 Treaty of Bardo, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate 1885 Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada 1885 North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Mtis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat. 1890 Louisiana legalized prize fighting 1890 The first-ever official County Championship match begins. Yorkshire beat Gloucestershire by eight wickets at Bristol. George Ulyett scores the first century in the competition. 1891 Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname 1897 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente Netherlands 1897 Battle at Thessalië: 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 occupies Crown city 1901 President McKinley visits San Fransisco 1902 United Mine Workers leader John Mitchell leads his 147,000 anthracite coal workers out of the pits to begin a 5-month strike that cripples the United States 1908 George Bernard Shaws' "Getting Married" premieres in London 1908 Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield 1915 Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250 1915 Franklin K Mathiews, presents the idea of "Book Week" 1921 National Hospital Day first observed 1925 Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics 1926 General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared 1926 UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends. 1926 Umberto Nobile flies Airship Norge is first vessel to fly over the North Pole 1928 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy 1928 Opium laws enforced 1932 Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ 1932 Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, first appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney 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. 1932 The body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne 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 1937 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of Britain are crowned at Westminster Abbey 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 Meuse River 1941 British forces attempt to break out of Tobruk 1941 Great British convoy marches into Alexandria 1941 Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer in Berlin. 1942 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz. 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 August 23, 1943 1942 World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed. 1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender (WWII) 1943 German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender 1944 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Brüx 1944 Krim purged of Nazi troops 1944 Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat 1946 Personal posting - Helen was born 1948 Queen Wilhelmina resigns 1949 The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin. 1949 The first foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India) 1949 The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state - the Federal Republic of Germany 1949 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade 1951 The first H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll 1952 Gaj Singh crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur. 1955 The last portion of the IRT Third Avenue Elevated in Manhattan closes. 1956 East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves 1958 "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Dont's hits #40 1958 A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada. 1959 Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher) 1959 Personal posting - Rhonda Nice born - USA 1960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special 1961 Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time 1962 Douglas MacArthur delivers his famous "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory speech at West Point. 1963 Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show 1963 Race riot in Birmingham AL 1964 Manlio Brosio chosen as secretary-general of NATO 1965 Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations 1965 The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon. 1965 West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations. 1966 Busch Memorial Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals major league baseball team and until 1987, the NFL team of the same name, opens in St. Louis, Missouri. 1967 At Queen Elizabeth Hall, England, Pink Floyd stages the first-ever quadraphonic rock concert. 1967 H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1968 "March of Poor" under rev Abernathy reach Washington DC 1970 Harry A Blackmun is confirmed by the U S Senate as a Supreme Court justice 1970 Race riots in Augusta GA; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops) 1973 "Dueling Tubas" by Martin Mull hits #92 1975 Mayagez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters. 1975 The Cambodian Navy seizes the American merchant ship Mayaguez in international waters 1976 Bayern Munich wins 21st Europe Cup 1 1977 Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation 1978 Commerce Department announces that hurricane names will no longer be exclusively female 1978 In Zare, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba. The government of Zare asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order. 1996 This was the year "The Book Clip - Guaranteed to keep your Book Open" first appeared on the Internet. See Pictures HERE www.bookclip.com 1978 The U S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) decides that hurricanes will no longer be given only female names 1979 Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end 1980 The first nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris) 1981 Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a republican campaign for political status to be granted to IRA prisoners. 1981 Personal posting - May 12, 1981 Richard's birthday 1982 During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Ftima, 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, decided that the Pope must be killed for being an "agent of Moscow." 1982 FC Barcelona wins 22nd Europe Cup II 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 1984 "White Horse" by Laid Back hits #26 1984 Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on the same hole 1984 South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for first time in 22 years 1984 Personal posting - May 12 1984 Elizabeth Morales was brought into the world! 1984 World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans 1985 Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as first woman Conservative rabbi 1986 Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is first to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat CA 1986 Kristeen Garcia is born. 1989 "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance 1989 A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train derails on the very steep Cajon Pass in San Bernardino, California, killing four people. 1989 Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists 1990 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts) 1990 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million 1990 Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting 1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - Adamski - Killer 1990 Personal posting - Jennifer Byron was born 1991 A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest 1992 The first 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 NBC TV airs the final episode of the hit comedy Cheers 1993 Parma wins 33rd Europe Cup II 1993 Personal posting - Geordie was born !! 1994 UK opposition leader John Smith dies in a London hospital after two serious heart attacks. 1995 Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59) 1997 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea 1997 Personal posting - David Walter is born 1997 Personal pposting - David Walter is born 1997 Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict 1997 Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is first to swim from Cuba to Florida 1997 Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami 1999 David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament. 2002 Former 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 Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan. 2003 The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26. 2006 Justin Gatlin ties the 100 metres sprint world record with a time of 9.77 seconds in Doha, Qatar. 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