Today is Monday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2025. There are 233 days in the year.
Today in history:
On May 12, 2008, an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 devastating in the Chinese province of Sichuan made more than 87,000 people who died or disappeared.
Also on this date:
In 1780, the besieged city of Charleston, in South Carolina, went to the British forces in one of the worst American defeats of the revolutionary war.
In 1846, the pioneers of the party gave left independence, Missouri, on Oregon Trail, starting their bad attempt to migrate in California.
In 1932, the body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the 20 -month Kidnapted son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was found in a wooded area near Hopewell, New Jersey.
In 1933, the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration created both the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, which provided federal funds to the states for rescue programs, and the administration of agricultural adjustment, which provided economic support to farmers through agricultural excess discounts.
In 1949, the Soviet Union raised the Berlin blockade, which the Western powers had managed to circumvent with their Berlin air transport.
In 1975, members of the new Cambodian government led by Khmers Rouge seized an American merchant ship, SS Mayaguez, in international waters, causing a three -day battle that resulted in the death of 41 Americans.
In 1982, in Fatima, Portugal, the security guards mastered a Spanish priest armed with a bayonet who attacked Pope John Paul II. (In 2008, the Pope’s long -standing private secretary revealed that the pontiff was slightly injured during the assault.)
Today’s birthdays:
- The Hockey Hall of Famer, Johnny Bucyk, is 90 years old.
- The musician Steve Winwood is 77 years old.
- Actor Bruce Bootlleitner is 75 years old.
- Actor Gabriel Byrne is 75 years old.
- Singer Billy Squier is 75 years old.
- The temple coach of basketball renown George Karl is 74 years old.
- The musician Country Kix Brooks is 70 years old.
- The actor twenty rhames is 66.
- ACTOR-FILMMAKER EMILIO ESTEVEZ is 63.
- The chief / television personality Carla Hall is 61 years old.
- Actor Stephen Baldwin is 59 years old.
- The Tony Hawk skateboarder is 57 years old.
- Actor Kim Fields is 56.
- Actor Rhea Seehorn is 53 years old.
- Maline actor Akerman is 47 years old.
- Actor Jason Biggs is 47.
- Actor Rami Malek is 44 years old.
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