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May 12th - Happy Birthday to Yogi Berra, Clare Bowen, and Emily VanCamp
Today is Saturday, May 12, the 133rd day of 2012. There are 233 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 12, 1937, Britain's King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey; his wife, Elizabeth, was crowned as queen consort.
On this date:
In 254, Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I as the 23rd pope.
In 304, Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the beheading of the 14-year-old Pancras of Rome.
In 922, After much hardship, Abbasid envoy Ahmad ibn Fadlan arrived in the lands of Volga Bulgars.
In 1191, Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre who is crowned Queen consort of England the same day.
In 1264, The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins.
In 1328, Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
In 1364, Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków, Poland.
In 1551, National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
In 1588, French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
In 1689, King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
In 1743, Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
In 1780, American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, S.C., is taken by British forces.
In 1797, First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
In 1812, English poet Edward Lear, known for nonsensical verse like "The Owl and the Pussycat," was born.
In 1821, The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
In 1862, U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
In 1863, American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps (ACW) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
In 1864, American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".
In 1865, American Civil War: the Battle of Palmito Ranch: the first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
In 1870, The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
In 1873, Oscar II is crowned King of Sweden.
In 1881, In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
In 1885, North-West Rebellion: the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
In 1902, anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike. (The strike effectively ended in October 1902 with the appointment of an Anthracite Coal Strike Commission by President Theodore Roosevelt.)
In 1916, James Connolly was sat on a chair and shot dead in Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin, after his role in the Easter Uprising
In 1922, a 20-ton meteor crashed near Blackstone, Va.
In 1926, UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
In 1930, Chicago's Adler Planetarium first opened to the public.
In 1932, the body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was found in a wooded area near Hopewell, N.J.
In 1935, Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.
In 1941, Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
In 1942, World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: in eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
In 1942, Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
In 1945, Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
In 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers had succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift. The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany.
In 1952, Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
In 1955, Nineteen days after bus workers went on strike in Singapore, rioting breaks out and seriously impacts Singapore's bid for independence.
In 1955, Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends.
In 1958, the United States and Canada signed an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (later the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD for short).
In 1962, Douglas MacArthur delivers his Duty, Honor, Country valedictory speech at the United States Military Academy.
In 1965, The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
In 1968, Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral-Balmoral.
In 1970, the Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice.
In 1975, Mayagüez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
In 1978, In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga). The local government asks the U.S.A., France and Belgium to restore order.
In 1981, Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.
In 1982, During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, 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, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow".
In 1992, actor Robert Reed of TV's "The Brady Bunch" died in Pasadena, Calif., at age 59.
In 1998, Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto
In 2003, The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26 people.
In 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.
In 2006, Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
In 2006, Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
In 2007, Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
In 2008, An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
In 2008, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of workplace and arrests nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
Ten years ago: Jimmy Carter arrived in Cuba, becoming the first U.S. president — in or out of office — to visit since the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power.
Five years ago: Virginia Tech held its first commencement ceremonies since the April 16 shooting rampage that claimed 32 victims and the shooter. Voters in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch became the first in the nation to back an ordinance prohibiting landlords from renting to most illegal immigrants. (Court challenges have kept the law from taking effect.) A U.S. patrol was attacked south of Baghdad; four Americans and an Iraqi interpreter were killed, three soldiers were kidnapped and later found dead. A U.S.-led coalition operation supported by NATO troops killed the Taliban's most prominent military commander, Mullah Dadullah.
One year ago: CEOs of the five largest oil companies went before the Senate Finance Committee, where Democrats challenged the executives to justify tax breaks at a time when people were paying $4 a gallon for gas. A German court convicted retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk of being an accessory to the murder of tens of thousands of Jews as a Nazi death camp guard. (Demjanjuk, who maintained his innocence, died in March 2012 at age 91.)
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Today's Birthdays: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra is 87. Critic John Simon is 87. Composer Burt Bacharach is 84. Actress Millie Perkins is 74. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jayotis Washington is 71. Country singer Billy Swan is 70. Actress Linda Dano is 69. Musician Ian McLagan is 67. Actress Lindsay Crouse is 64. Singer-musician Steve Winwood is 64. Actor Gabriel Byrne is 62. Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 62. Singer Billy Squier is 62. Country singer Kix Brooks is 57. Actress Kim Greist is 54. Rock musician Eric Singer (KISS) is 54. Actor Ving Rhames is 53. Rock musician Billy Duffy is 51. Actor Emilio Estevez is 50. Actress April Grace is 50. Actress Vanessa A. Williams ("Melrose Place") is 49. Country musician Eddie Kilgallon is 47. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 46. Actor Scott Schwartz is 44. Actress Kim Fields is 43. Actress Samantha Mathis is 42. Actress Jamie Luner is 41. Actor Christian Campbell is 40. Actress Rhea Seehorn is 40. Actor Mackenzie Astin is 39. Actress Malin Akerman is 34. Actor Jason Biggs is 34. Actress Emily VanCamp is 26. Actor Malcolm David Kelley is 20. Actors Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten ("Everybody Loves Raymond") are 17.
Other notable birthdays, May 12:
1935, Felipe Alou, Dominican baseball player and manager
1937, Susan Hampshire, British actress
1945, Nicky Henson, British actor
1951, George Karl, American basketball player and head coach
1951, Joe Nolan, American baseball player
1953, Kevin Grevey, American basketball player
1957, Lou Whitaker, American baseball player
1961, Paul Begala, American political commentator
1961, Thomas Dooley, German-American soccer player
1961, Lar Park Lincoln, American actress
1961, Bruce McCulloch, Canadian actor
1963, Gavin Hood, South African film director
1967, Paul D'Amour, American bass guitarist (Tool)
1968, Mark Clark, American baseball player
1968, Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
1970, Jim Furyk, American golfer
1970, Mike Weir, Canadian golfer
1973, Kendra Kassebaum, American stage actress
1975, Lawrence Phillips, American football player
1978, Josh Phelps, American baseball player
1979, Andre Carter, American football player
1979, Steve Smith, American football player
1980, Keith Bogans, American basketball player
1980, Felipe Lopez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1982, Darren Williams, American basketball player
1989, Matthew Hann, American basketball player
1990, Jacory Harris, American football player
1995, Luke Benward, American actor
1995, Kenton Duty, American actor
Born on this day, May 12, passed away:
1812, Edward Lear, British artist and poet (d. 1888)
1820, Florence Nightingale, British nurse (d. 1910)
1828, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British painter (d. 1882)
1850, Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924)
1889, Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980)
1903, Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (d. 1991)
1907, Leslie Charteris, British author and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1907, Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
1910, Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
1914, Howard K. Smith, American journalist (d. 2002)
1914, James Bacon, American entertainment columnist and reporter (d. 2010)
1918, Julius Rosenberg, American-born spy for the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
1918, Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman (d. 2001)
1936, Tom Snyder, American television personality (d. 2007)
1939, Ron Ziegler, U.S. White House Press Secretary (d. 2003)
1940, Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (d. 2008)
1942, Ian Dury, British musician (d. 2000)
1948, Joe Tasker, British mountaineer (d. 1982)
1959, Ray Gillen, American singer (d. 1993)
1963, Charles Pettigrew, American singer (Charles and Eddie) (d. 2001)
Notable deaths, May 12:
1864, James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general (b. 1833)
1916, James Connolly, Irish socialist and leader of the Easter Rising (b. 1868)
1925, Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
1944, Max Brand, American author (b. 1892)
1957, Erich von Stroheim, film director and actor (b. 1885)
1967, John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878)
1970, Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1971, Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901)
1992, Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
2000, Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
2001, Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
2002, Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)
2003, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
2008, Irena Sendler, Polish social worker, WWII heroine (b. 1910)
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Today is Sunday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2013. There are 233 days left in the year. This is Mother's Day.
Today's Highlights in History:
On May 12, 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. The two-week Trident Conference, headed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, opened in Washington.
One year ago: At least 100,000 Spaniards angered by grim economic prospects and the political handling of the international financial crisis turned out for street demonstrations, marking the one-year anniversary of a spontaneous movement that inspired similar protests elsewhere. Miami's LeBron James became the eighth player in NBA history to win the MVP award three times.
Today's Birthdays: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra is 88. Critic John Simon is 88. Composer Burt Bacharach is 85. Actress Millie Perkins is 75. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jayotis Washington is 72. Country singer Billy Swan is 71. Actress Linda Dano is 70. Musician Ian McLagan is 68. Actress Lindsay Crouse is 65. Singer-musician Steve Winwood is 65. Actor Gabriel Byrne is 63. Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 63. Singer Billy Squier is 63. Country singer Kix Brooks is 58. Actress Kim Greist is 55. Rock musician Eric Singer (KISS) is 55. Actor Ving Rhames is 54. Rock musician Billy Duffy is 52. Actor Emilio Estevez is 51. Actress April Grace is 51. Actress Vanessa A. Williams ("Melrose Place") is 50. Country musician Eddie Kilgallon is 48. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 47. Actor Scott Schwartz is 45. Actress Kim Fields is 44. Actress Samantha Mathis is 43. Actress Jamie Luner is 42. Actor Christian Campbell is 41. Actress Rhea Seehorn is 41. Actor Mackenzie Astin is 40. Actress Malin (MAH'-lin) Akerman is 35. Actor Jason Biggs is 35. Actress Emily VanCamp is 27. Actor Malcolm David Kelley is 21. Actors Sawyer and Sullivan Sweeten ("Everybody Loves Raymond") are 18.
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Today is Monday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2014. There are 233 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 12, 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers had succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift.
Ten years ago: Members of Congress expressed outrage after they were privately shown fresh pictures and videos of Iraqi prisoners being abused by U.S. troops. NBC completed a merger with the Universal television and entertainment businesses to create a major media conglomerate.
Five years ago: The government warned that without changes, Social Security would be depleted in 2037, and the Medicare trust fund would become insolvent in 2017. Five Miami men were convicted in a plot to blow up FBI buildings and Chicago's Sears Tower; one man was acquitted. Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN'-yuk) was deported from the United States to Germany. On the second day of his Holy Land tour, Pope Benedict XVI took his message of peace to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
One year ago: Pope Francis gave the Catholic church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony before tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square. Nineteen people were wounded when shots rang out during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans (nine people have been charged in connection with the case). Serena Williams kept her No. 1 ranking and added career title No. 50 as she beat Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-4 in the final of the Madrid Open.
Today's Birthdays: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra is 89. Critic John Simon is 89. Composer Burt Bacharach is 86. Actress Millie Perkins is 76. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jayotis Washington is 73. Country singer Billy Swan is 72. Actress Linda Dano is 71. Musician Ian McLagan is 69. Actress Lindsay Crouse is 66. Singer-musician Steve Winwood is 66. Actor Gabriel Byrne is 64. Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 64. Singer Billy Squier is 64. Country singer Kix Brooks is 59. Actress Kim Greist is 56. Rock musician Eric Singer (KISS) is 56. Actor Ving Rhames is 55. Rock musician Billy Duffy is 53. Actor Emilio Estevez is 52. Actress April Grace is 52. Actress Vanessa A. Williams (TV: "Soul Food") is 51. TV personality/chef Carla Hall (TV: "The Chew") is 50. Country musician Eddie Kilgallon is 49. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 48. Actor Scott Schwartz is 46. Actress Kim Fields is 45. Actress Samantha Mathis is 44. Actress Jamie Luner is 43. Actor Christian Campbell is 42. Actress Rhea Seehorn is 42. Actor Mackenzie Astin is 41. Actress Rebecca Herbst (TV: "General Hospital") is 37. Actress Malin (MAH'-lin) Akerman is 36. Actor Jason Biggs is 36. Actor Rami Malek (RAH'-mee MAL'-ihk) is 33. Actress-singer Clare Bowen (TV: "Nashville") is 30.Actress Emily VanCamp is 28. Actor Malcolm David Kelley is 22. Actors Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten (TV: "Everybody Loves Raymond") are 19.
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Re: May 12th - Happy Birthday to Yogi Berra, Clare Bowen, and Emily VanCamp
Today is Tuesday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2015. There are 233 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 12, 1975, the White House announced the new Cambodian government had seized an American merchant ship, the Mayaguez, in international waters. (U.S. Marines gained control of the ship three days after its seizure, not knowing the 39 civilian members of the crew had already been released by Cambodia.)
Ten years ago: The Foreign Relations Committee voted 10-8 along party lines to advance John Bolton's nomination to be U.N. ambassador without the customary recommendation that the Senate approve it. Microsoft officially unveiled its Xbox 360 video game console.
Five years ago: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330 jetliner plunged into the Libyan desert less than a mile from the runway in Tripoli after a flight from Johannesburg; a 9-year-old Dutch boy was the sole survivor of the crash that killed 103 people. An attacker hacked seven children and two adults to death in a rampage at a kindergarten in northwest China before taking his own life. Republicans chose Tampa, Florida, as the site of their 2012 presidential convention. Bowler Kelly Kulick, the first woman to win a PBA Tour title when she beat the men in the Tournament of Champions, won the U.S. Women's Open for her second women's major victory in 15 days.
One year ago: Scientists expressed concern during a NASA news conference over a pair of studies which said the huge West Antarctic ice sheet was starting a glacially slow collapse in an unstoppable way, a melt that could eventually add 4 to 12 feet to current sea levels.
Today's Birthdays: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra is 90. Critic John Simon is 90. Composer Burt Bacharach is 87. Actress Millie Perkins is 77. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jayotis Washington is 74. Country singer Billy Swan is 73. Actress Linda Dano is 72. Actress Lindsay Crouse is 67. Singer-musician Steve Winwood is 67. Actor Gabriel Byrne is 65. Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 65. Singer Billy Squier is 65. Blues singer-musician Guy Davis is 63. Country singer Kix Brooks is 60. Actress Kim Greist is 57. Rock musician Eric Singer (KISS) is 57. Actor Ving Rhames is 56. Rock musician Billy Duffy is 54. Actor Emilio Estevez is 53. Actress April Grace is 53. Actress Vanessa A. Williams is 52. TV personality/chef Carla Hall is 51. Country musician Eddie Kilgallon is 50. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 49. Actor Scott Schwartz is 47. Actress Kim Fields is 46. Actress Samantha Mathis is 45. Actress Jamie Luner is 44. Actor Christian Campbell is 43. Actress Rhea Seehorn is 43. Actor Mackenzie Astin is 42. Country musician Matt Mangano (The Zac Brown Band) is 39. Actress Rebecca Herbst is 38. Actress Malin (MAH'-lin) Akerman is 37. Actor Jason Biggs is 37. Actor Rami Malek (RAH'-mee MA'-lihk) is 34. Actress-singer Clare Bowen is 31. Actress Emily VanCamp is 29. Actor Malcolm David Kelley is 23. Actor Sullivan Sweeten (TV: "Everybody Loves Raymond") is 20.
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Re: May 12th - Happy Birthday to Yogi Berra, Clare Bowen, and Emily VanCamp
Today is Thursday, May 12, the 133rd day of 2016. There are 233 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 12, 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers had succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift.
Ten years ago: Tony Snow made his debut as White House press secretary. A ruptured gas pipeline in southwestern Nigeria exploded as villagers were collecting fuel, killing up to 200 people. South Korean prosecutors indicted disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk on charges of fraud, embezzlement and bioethics violations linked to faked stem cell research. (Hwang was convicted in 2009 of embezzling research funds and illegally buying human eggs; he received a suspended prison term.)
Five years ago: CEOs of the five largest oil companies went before the Senate Finance Committee, where Democrats challenged the executives to justify tax breaks at a time when people were paying $4 a gallon for gas. A German court convicted retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN'-yuk) of being an accessory to the murder of tens of thousands of Jews as a Nazi death camp guard. (Demjanjuk, who maintained his innocence, died in March 2012 at age 91.)
One year ago: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin with an eye on easing badly strained relations over conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. A new earthquake killed dozens of people in Nepal, which was still struggling to recover from a devastating quake nearly three weeks earlier that had killed more than 8,000. An Amtrak train traveling from Washington, D.C. to New York derailed and crashed in Philadelphia, killing eight people. Educator, author and journalist William Zinsser, 92, died in New York.
Today's Birthdays: Critic John Simon is 91. Composer Burt Bacharach is 88. Actress Millie Perkins is 78. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jayotis Washington is 75. Country singer Billy Swan is 74. Actress Linda Dano is 73. Actress Lindsay Crouse is 68. Singer-musician Steve Winwood is 68. Actor Gabriel Byrne is 66. Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 66. Singer Billy Squier is 66. Blues singer-musician Guy Davis is 64. Country singer Kix Brooks is 61. Actress Kim Greist is 58. Rock musician Eric Singer (KISS) is 58. Actor Ving Rhames is 57. Rock musician Billy Duffy is 55. Actor Emilio Estevez is 54. Actress April Grace is 54. Actress Vanessa A. Williams is 53. TV personality/chef Carla Hall is 52. Country musician Eddie Kilgallon is 51. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 50. Actor Scott Schwartz is 48. Actress Kim Fields is 47. Actress Samantha Mathis is 46. Actress Jamie Luner is 45. Actor Christian Campbell is 44. Actress Rhea Seehorn is 44. Actor Mackenzie Astin is 43. Country musician Matt Mangano (The Zac Brown Band) is 40. Actress Rebecca Herbst is 39. Actress Malin (MAH'-lin) Akerman is 38. Actor Jason Biggs is 38. Actor Rami Malek (RAH'-mee MA'-lihk) is 35. Actress-singer Clare Bowen is 32. Actress Emily VanCamp is 30. Actor Malcolm David Kelley is 24. Actor Sullivan Sweeten is 21.
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Today is Friday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2017. There are 233 days left in the year.
Today's Highlights in History:
On May 12, 1967, "Are You Experienced," the groundbreaking debut album of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was released in Britain by Track Records (a version with a somewhat different playlist went on sale in the United States the following August on the Reprise label). Procol Harum's debut single "A Whiter Shade of Pale" was released in the United Kingdom on the Deram label. English poet laureate John Masefield ("And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by...") died in Abingdon at age 88
Ten years ago: Virginia Tech held its first commencement ceremonies since the April 16 shooting rampage that claimed 32 victims and the shooter. Voters in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch became the first in the nation to back an ordinance prohibiting landlords from renting to most immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally. (In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from the city after a federal appeals court struck down the never-enforced ordinance as unconstitutional.) A U.S. patrol was attacked south of Baghdad; four Americans and an Iraqi interpreter were killed, three soldiers were kidnapped and later found dead. A U.S.-led coalition operation supported by NATO troops killed the Taliban's most prominent military commander, Mullah Dadullah.
Five years ago: At least 100,000 Spaniards angered by grim economic prospects and the political handling of the international financial crisis turned out for street demonstrations, marking the one-year anniversary of a spontaneous movement that inspired similar protests elsewhere. Miami's LeBron James became the eighth player in NBA history to receive the MVP award three times.
One year ago: A divided U.S. Supreme Court blocked the execution of an Alabama inmate so that a lower court could review claims that strokes and dementia had rendered him incompetent to understand his looming death sentence. (A federal appeals court ruled in March 2017 that Vernon Madison was incompetent, and could not be executed.) Susannah Mushatt Jones, recognized at the time as the world's oldest person, died in New York at age 116. Singer Julius La Rosa, 86, died in Crivitz, Wis.
Today's Birthdays — May 12: Critic John Simon is 92. Composer Burt Bacharach is 89. Actress Millie Perkins is 79. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jayotis Washington is 76. Country singer Billy Swan is 75. Actress Linda Dano is 74. Actress Lindsay Crouse is 69. Singer-musician Steve Winwood is 69. Actor Gabriel Byrne is 67. Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 67. Singer Billy Squier is 67. Blues singer-musician Guy Davis is 65. Country singer Kix Brooks is 62. Actress Kim Greist is 59. Rock musician Eric Singer (KISS) is 59. Actor Ving Rhames is 58. Rock musician Billy Duffy is 56. Actor Emilio Estevez is 55. Actress April Grace is 55. Actress Vanessa A. Williams is 54. TV personality/chef Carla Hall is 53. Country musician Eddie Kilgallon is 52. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 51. Actor Scott Schwartz is 49. Actress Kim Fields is 48. Actress Samantha Mathis is 47. Actress Jamie Luner is 46. Actor Christian Campbell is 45. Actress Rhea Seehorn is 45. Actor Mackenzie Astin is 44. Country musician Matt Mangano (The Zac Brown Band) is 41. Actress Rebecca Herbst is 40. Actress Malin (MAH'-lin) Akerman is 39. Actor Jason Biggs is 39. Actor Rami Malek (RAH'-mee MA'-lihk) is 36. Actress-singer Clare Bowen is 33. Actress Emily VanCamp is 31. Actor Malcolm David Kelley is 25. Actor Sullivan Sweeten is 22.
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Today is Saturday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2018. There are 233 days left in the year.
Today's Highlights in History:
On March 12, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his 30 radio addresses that came to be known as "fireside chats," telling Americans what was being done to deal with the nation's economic crisis.
On May 12, 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. The two-week Trident Conference, headed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, opened in Washington.
10 years ago in 2008: New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned two days after reports had surfaced that he was a client of a prostitution ring. U..S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of workplace and arrests nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud. Former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, a liberal Ohio Democrat who challenged big business, died near Fort Lauderdale, Fla., at age 90. Space shuttle Endeavour docked with the international space station, kicking off almost two weeks of demanding construction work. A devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake in China's Sichuan province left more than 87,000 people dead or missing. Irena Sendler, credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust, died in Warsaw, Poland, at age 98. Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg died on Captiva Island, Fla., at age 82. Indians second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera turned the 14th unassisted triple play in major league history during the second game of a doubleheader against Toronto, which won the match, 3-0, in 10 innings. NBC announced that Jimmy Fallon would succeed Conan O'Brien as host of "Late Night." Lance Mackey won his second consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, completing the 1,100-mile journey in just under 9½ days.
9 years ago in 2009: The government warned that without changes, Social Security would be depleted in 2037, and the Medicare trust fund would become insolvent in 2017. Five Miami men were convicted in a plot to blow up FBI buildings and Chicago's Sears Tower; one man was acquitted. Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN'-yuk) was deported from the United States to Germany. On the second day of his Holy Land tour, Pope Benedict XVI took his message of peace to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
8 years ago in 2010: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330 jetliner plunged into the Libyan desert less than a mile from the runway in Tripoli after a flight from Johannesburg; a 9-year-old Dutch boy was the sole survivor of the crash that killed 103 people. An attacker hacked seven children and two adults to death in a rampage at a kindergarten in northwest China before taking his own life. Republicans chose Tampa, Fla., as the site of their 2012 presidential convention. Bowler Kelly Kulick, the first woman to win a PBA Tour title when she beat the men in the Tournament of Champions, won the U.S. Women's Open for her second women's major victory in 15 days.
7 years ago in 2011: CEOs of the five largest oil companies went before the Senate Finance Committee, where Democrats challenged the executives to justify tax breaks at a time when people were paying $4 a gallon for gas. A German court convicted retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN'-yuk) of being an accessory to the murder of tens of thousands of Jews as a Nazi death camp guard. (Demjanjuk, who maintained his innocence, died in March 2012 at age 91.)
6 years ago in 2012: A day after the weekend massacre of Afghan civilians allegedly carried out by a U.S. soldier, President Barack Obama called the episode "absolutely tragic and heartbreaking," while Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called it "inexplicable." Greece implemented the biggest debt write-down in history, swapping the bulk of its privately-held bonds with new ones worth less than half their original value. At least 100,000 Spaniards angered by grim economic prospects and the political handling of the international financial crisis turned out for street demonstrations, marking the one-year anniversary of a spontaneous movement that inspired similar protests elsewhere. Miami's LeBron James became the eighth player in NBA history to receive the MVP award three times.
5 years ago in 2013: Pope Francis gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony before tens of thousands of people in St.. Peter's Square. Nineteen people were wounded in a gang-related shooting during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans. Serena Williams kept her No. 1 ranking and added career title No. 50 as she beat Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-4 in the final of the Madrid Open; Rafael Nadal won his fifth title since returning from a knee injury by beating Stanislas Wawrinka (vah-VRINK'-ah) 6-2, 6-4.
4 years ago in 2014: Scientists expressed concern during a NASA news conference over a pair of studies which said the huge West Antarctic ice sheet was starting a glacially slow collapse in an unstoppable way, a melt that could eventually add 4 to 12 feet to current sea levels. Authorities confirmed that Galindo Mellado Cruz, founder of the Zetas drug cartel, was killed three days earlier in a gunbattle with the Mexican army.
3 years ago in 2015: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin with an eye on easing badly strained relations over conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. A new earthquake killed dozens of people in Nepal, which was still struggling to recover from a devastating quake nearly three weeks earlier that had killed more than 8,000. An Amtrak train traveling from Washington, D.C., to New York derailed and crashed in Philadelphia, killing eight people. Educator, author and journalist William Zinsser, 92, died in New York.
2 years ago in 2016: A divided U.S. Supreme Court blocked the execution of an Alabama inmate so that a lower court could review claims that strokes and dementia had rendered him incompetent to understand his looming death sentence. (A federal appeals court ruled in March 2017 that Vernon Madison was incompetent, and could not be executed.) Vice President Michel Temer became Brazil's interim president after the Senate voted to proceed with an impeachment trial for Dilma Rousseff. Susannah Mushatt Jones, recognized at the time as the world's oldest person, died in New York at age 116. Singer Julius La Rosa, 86, died in Crivitz, Wis.
1 year ago in 2017: Dozens of countries were hit with a huge cyberextortion attack that locked up computers and held users' files for ransom at a multitude of hospitals, companies and government agencies. A gunman killed Kirkersville, Ohio, Police Chief Steven Eric DiSario as well as two employees at a nearby nursing home before taking his own life; authorities said one of the employees was the gunman's ex-girlfriend. Pope Francis urged Catholics to "tear down all walls" and spread peace during a visit to Fatima, Portugal, as he marked the 100th anniversary of one of the most unique events of the 20th-century Catholic Church: the visions of the Virgin Mary reported by three illiterate shepherd children.
Today's Birthdays — May 12, 2018: Critic John Simon is 93. Composer Burt Bacharach is 90. Namibian politician Sam Nujomma is 89. Former MLB player/manager Felipe Alou is 83. Artist Frank Stella is 82. Actress Susan Hampshire is 81. Actress Millie Perkins is 80.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Jayotis Washington is 77. Country singer Billy Swan is 76. Actress Linda Dano is 75. Actress Lindsay Crouse is 70. Singer-musician Steve Winwood is 70.
Actor Gabriel Byrne is 68. Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 68. Singer Billy Squier is 68. Former NBA player/coach George Karl is 67. Blues singer-musician Guy Davis is 66. Country singer Kix Brooks is 63. Actress Kim Greist is 60. Rock musician Eric Singer (KISS) is 60.
Actor Ving Rhames is 59. Rock musician Billy Duffy is 57. Political commentator Paul Begala is 57. Actor Emilio Estevez is 56. Actress April Grace is 56. Musician/songwriter/producer Brett Gurewitz is 56. Actress Vanessa A. Williams is 55. Filmmaker Gavin Hood is 55. TV personality/chef Carla Hall is 54. Country musician Eddie Kilgallon is 53. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 52. Actor Scott Schwartz is 50. Skateboarder/actor Tony Hawk is 50. Actress Catherine Tate is 50.
Actress Kim Fields is 49. Actress Samantha Mathis is 48. Golfer Jim Furyk is 48. Actress Jamie Luner is 47. Actor Christian Campbell is 46. Actress Rhea Seehorn is 46. Actor Mackenzie Astin is 45. Country musician Matt Mangano (The Zac Brown Band) is 42. Actress Rebecca Herbst is 41. Actress Rachel Wilson is 41. Actress Malin (MAH'-lin) Akerman is 40. Actor Jason Biggs is 40.
Actor Rami Malek (RAH'-mee MA'-lihk) is 37. Actor Domhnall Gleeson is 35. Actress-singer Clare Bowen is 34. Actress Emily VanCamp is 32. MLB pitcher Adam Libertore (Los Angeles Dodgers) is 31. MLB pitcher Lance Lynn (Minnesota Twins, formerly of of the St. Louis Cardinals) is 31.
Actor Malcolm David Kelley is 26. Actor Sullivan Sweeten is 23. Actor Kenton Duty is 23. Tennis player Irina Khromacheva is 23. Actress Odeya Rush is 21.
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Re: May 12th - Happy Birthday to Yogi Berra, Clare Bowen, and Emily VanCamp
1968, John Lennon and Paul McCartney held a news conference in New York to announce the creation of the Beatles' latest business venture, Apple Corps.
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In 1967 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience released their debut album "Are You Experienced."
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