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May 12, there are 234 days left in this year
1870– Manitoba became a province of Canada.
1932– The body of Charles and Anne Lindbergh’s kidnapped baby was found.
1937– Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
1943– Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.
1949– The Soviet blockade that prompted the Berlin airlift was ended.
1970– Harry A. Blackmun was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.
2002– Former president Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president (in or out of office) to visit Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
2008– An estimated 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan Provinces in western China and as many as 68,000 people were killed.
2012– The 2012 World Expo began in Yeosu, South Korea.
Birthdays
1820– Florence Nightingale, English nurse, founder of modern nursing
1850– Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Senator
1907– Katharine Hepburn, Oscar Award winning actress
1910– Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist, Nobel laureate
1925– Yogi Berra, baseball player, New York Yankees
1929– Burt Bacharach, composer
1937– George Carlin, comedian
1962– Emilio Estevez, actor