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On This Day: May 12

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.

On This Date

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

Current Birthdays

Tony Hawk, Skateboarder
Skateboarder Tony Hawk turns 43 years old today.
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
Malin Akerman, Actress
Actress Malin Akerman turns 33 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
1925Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 86
1928Burt Bacharach, Singer, songwriter, turns 83
1938Millie Perkins, Actress, turns 73
1948Lindsay Crouse, Actress, turns 63
1948Dave Heineman, Governor of Nebraska, turns 63
1948Steve Winwood, Rock musician (Traffic), turns 63
1950Bruce Boxleitner, Actor, turns 61
19XXNAME, TEXT, turns 1992
1950Billy Squier, Rock musician, turns 61
1955Kix Brooks, Country singer (Brooks and Dunn), turns 56
1959Ving Rhames, Actor, turns 52
1962Emilio Estevez, Actor, turns 49
1963Vanessa Williams, Actress, turns 48
1966Stephen Baldwin, Actor, turns 45
1969Kim Fields, Actress ("The Facts of Life"), turns 42
1970Samantha Mathis, Actress, turns 41
1978Jason Biggs, Actor ("American Pie" movies), turns 33
1979Steve Smith, Football player, turns 32
1992Malcolm David Kelley, Actor ("Lost"), turns 19

Historic Birthdays

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

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