Daily Calendar for Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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Florence Nightingale (nurse) – 1820
Katharine Hepburn (actress) – 1907
Yogi Berra (baseball player) – 1925
George Carlin (comedian; first to host Saturday Night Live) – 1937
Emilio Estevez (actor) – 1962
Tony Hawk (skateboarder) – 1968
Kim Fields (actress) – 1969
Emily VanCamp (actress) – 1986
Malcolm David Kelley (actor) – 1992
Sawyer and Sullivan Sweeten (actors who played Geoffrey and Michael Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond) – 1995

John Cadbury (chocolate manufacturer) – 1889
Winnie (the bear Christopher Robin Milne named his toy bear after) – 1934
Robert Reed (actor) – 1992
Adam Petty (race car driver) – 2000
Perry Como (singer) – 2001
Emanuel Gluck (Yankee Stadium’s longest-working vendor; wore badge No. 1) – 2005

The oldest university in Poland, Jagiellonian University, was founded – 1364
Manitoba Act passed, approving Manitoba to become a Canadian province – 1870
Charles Sherrill first demonstrated a crouching start for sprinters – 1888
Adler Planetarium, first in U.S., opened – 1930
Manitoba’s flag officially adopted – 1966
Montreal was chosen as the site for the 1976 Summer Olympics – 1970
U.S. Commerce Department announced hurricanes would no longer be named solely after women – 1978
Susie Maroney swam from Cuba to Florida in 24.5 hours – 1997
The discovery of what is likely the Library of Alexandria was announced – 2004
American sprinter Justin Gatlin, Olympic champion, broke the 100-meter world record with a time of 9.76 seconds at the Qatar Grand Prix in Doha, Qatar. Previous record was 9.77 seconds by Jamaica’s Asafa Powell on June 14, 2005, in Athens, Greece. – 2006
7.8-magnitude earthquake, Sichuan province, China – 2008
A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal less than 3 weeks after a 7.8-magnitude quake – 2015

Massive tornado struck Xenia, Ohio – 1886
The Colorado Rockies were struck by a late-season storm that dropped 46 inches of snow on Coal Creek Canyon, near Boulder – 1982
Ice out, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH – 1988