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On This Day: May 12

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On May 12, 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.
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On May 12, 1820, Florence Nightingale, the Englishwoman who established nursing as a trained profession for women, was born. Following her death on Aug. 13, 1910, her obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1820	Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, was born in Florence, Italy.
1870	Manitoba entered the confederation as a Canadian province.
1907	Actress Katharine Hepburn was born in Hartford, Conn.
1932	The body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was found in a wooded area of Hopewell, N.J.
1943	Axis forces in North Africa surrendered during World War II.
1949	The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin blockade.
1965	West Germany and Israel established diplomatic relations.
1970	The Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice.
1972	The album "Exile on Main St." by the Rolling Stones was released.
1982	Pope John Paul II was assaulted by a knife-wielding Spanish priest while visiting the shrine of Fatima in Portugal. (In 2008, the pope's longtime private secretary revealed that the pontiff had been lightly wounded.)
2002	Jimmy Carter became the first present or former U.S. president to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959.
2003	Suicide bombers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed 26 people, including nine U.S. citizens.
2003	Fifty-nine Texas House Democrats fled to Oklahoma to prevent passage of a congressional redistricting bill.
2008	An earthquake in China's Sichuan province killed some 70,000 people.
2009	Five Miami men were convicted in a plot to blow up FBI buildings and Chicago's Sears Tower.
2009	Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was deported from the United States to Germany.

Current Birthdays

Skateboarder Tony Hawk turns 43 years old today.

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Actress Malin Akerman turns 33 years old today.

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1925	Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 86
1928	Burt Bacharach, Singer, songwriter, turns 83
1938	Millie Perkins, Actress, turns 73
1948	Lindsay Crouse, Actress, turns 63
1948	Dave Heineman, Governor of Nebraska, turns 63
1948	Steve Winwood, Rock musician (Traffic), turns 63
1950	Bruce Boxleitner, Actor, turns 61
19XX	NAME, TEXT, turns 1992
1950	Billy Squier, Rock musician, turns 61
1955	Kix Brooks, Country singer (Brooks and Dunn), turns 56
1959	Ving Rhames, Actor, turns 52
1962	Emilio Estevez, Actor, turns 49
1963	Vanessa Williams, Actress, turns 48
1966	Stephen Baldwin, Actor, turns 45
1969	Kim Fields, Actress ("The Facts of Life"), turns 42
1970	Samantha Mathis, Actress, turns 41
1978	Jason Biggs, Actor ("American Pie" movies), turns 33
1979	Steve Smith, Football player, turns 32
1992	Malcolm David Kelley, Actor ("Lost"), turns 19

Historic Birthdays

Florence Nightingale5/12/1820 - 8/13/1910English nurse; reformed nursing profession and medical care for soldiers.Go to obituary »

75	Edward Lear 5/12/1812 - 1/29/1888 English landscape painter and poet
53	Dante Gabriel Rossetti 5/12/1828 - 4/9/1882 English painter and poet
70	Jules Massenet 5/12/1842 - 8/13/1912 French composer; best remembered for his operas
79	Gabriel Faure 5/12/1845 - 11/4/1924 French composer
74	Henry Cabot Lodge 5/12/1850 - 11/9/1924 American statesman; Massachusetts senator from 1893 to 1924
54	Baron Clemens von Pirquet 5/12/1874 - 2/28/1929 Austrian physician; devised a skin test for tuberculosis
71	Lincoln Ellsworth 5/12/1880 - 5/26/1951 American explorer, engineer and scientist
85	Leslie Charteris 5/12/1907 - 4/15/1993 English novelist
84	Dorothy Hodgkin 5/12/1910 - 7/29/1994 English Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1964)
35	Julius Rosenberg 5/12/1918 - 6/19/1953 American engineer;executed with his wife for espionage in 1953