TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Friday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2017. There are 233 days left in the year.
254 Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I as the 23rd pope. 1191 Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre who is crowned Queen consort of England the same day. 1364 Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków, Poland. 1588 1593 1689 1784 1797 1870 1926 1933 1937 1941 1945 1948 1949 1965 1982 French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry I, Duke of Guise enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs. London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel. William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France. The Treaty of Paris signed on September 3, 1783, takes effect on this date. Napoleon I of France conquers Venice. The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15. The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. The Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies. The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey. Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. Argentinian labour leader Jose Peter declares the Federacion Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved. Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands cedes throne. The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin. The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon. During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Maria Fernandez y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. 2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, the first President to visit the island since ‘59.