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The following events took place on May 12. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 60 events. Showing 31 - 60.

• 1941

  Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
• 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.
• 1942

  World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.
• 1945

  Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
• 1948

  Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands cedes throne.
• 1949

  The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
• 1949

  The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: The Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1952

  Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
• 1955

  Nineteen days after bus workers went on strike in Singapore, rioting breaks out and seriously impacts Singapore’s bid for independence.
• 1955

  Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends.
• 1957

  Alfonso de Portago crashes during the Mille Miglia, killing himself, his co-driver, Ed Nelson and ten spectators – five of whom were children.
• 1958

  A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
• 1965

  The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
• 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.
• 1975

  Mayaguez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1982

  During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y 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”.
• 1986

  NBC debuts the current well-known peacock as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration.
• 1989

  The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.
• 1998

  Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto
• 2002

  Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro’s 1959 revolution.
• 2003

  The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by al-Qaeda, kill 26 people.
• 2006

  Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
• 2006

  Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
• 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.
• 2008

  An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
• 2008

  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
• 2015

  A train derailment in Philadelphia kills 8 people and injures over 200.
• 2015

  A 7.3-magnitude earthquake and six major aftershocks hit Nepal, killing over 200 people.

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