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May 12, there are 234 days left in this year<\/p>\n
1870<\/strong>– Manitoba became a province of Canada.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong>– The body of Charles and Anne Lindbergh’s kidnapped baby was found.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong>– Britain\u2019s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong>– Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.<\/p>\n 1949<\/strong>– The Soviet blockade that prompted the Berlin airlift was ended.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong>– Harry A. Blackmun was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong>– Former president Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president (in or out of office) to visit Fidel Castro’s Cuba.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong>– An estimated 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan Provinces in western China and as many as 68,000 people were killed.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong>– The 2012 World Expo began in Yeosu, South Korea.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Birthdays<\/strong><\/p>\n 1820<\/strong>– Florence Nightingale, English nurse, founder of modern nursing<\/p>\n 1850<\/strong>– Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Senator<\/p>\n 1907<\/strong>– Katharine Hepburn, Oscar Award winning actress<\/p>\n 1910<\/strong>– Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist, Nobel laureate<\/p>\n 1925<\/strong>– Yogi Berra, baseball player, New York Yankees<\/p>\n 1929<\/strong>– Burt Bacharach, composer<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong>– George Carlin, comedian<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong>– Emilio Estevez, actor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMN STAFF May 12, there are 234 days left in this year 1870– Manitoba became a province of Canada. 1932– The body of Charles and… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-26872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26873,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26872\/revisions\/26873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}