Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. 1264 - The Battle of Lewes begins. 1328 - Nicholas V is consecrated at St Peter's Basilica in Rome by the bishop of Venice. 1588 - Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city. 1689 - King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France. 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces. 1797 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice. 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: The "Bloody Angle" - thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die. 1870 - Manitoba becomes a province of Canada. 1881 - In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate. 1885 - The four day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel French Canadians against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat. 1926 - UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends (the strike began on May 3). 1932 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home. 1937 - Coronation of King George VI of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey. 1942 - World War II: Battle of Kharkov - In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates its first major offensive of the war. During the battle the Soviets will take the city of Kharkov back from the German Army. 1949 - The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin. 1958 - A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada. 1967 - At Queen Elizabeth Hall, England, Pink Floyd stages the first ever quadraphonic rock concert. 1975 - Mayaguez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters. 1999 - David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament. 2000 - The Tate Modern opens in London 2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution. Births 1496 - Gustav I of Sweden († 1560) 1670 - King Frederick Augustus I of Poland († 1733) 1803 - Justus von Liebig, chemist († 1873) 1820 - Florence Nightingale, nurse († 1910) 1828 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter († 1882) 1845 - Gabriel Fauré, composer († 1924) 1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman († 1924) 1889 - Otto Frank, writer, father of Anne Frank († 1980) 1892 - Fritz Kortner, director († 1970) 1899 - Indra Devi, yogi († 2002) 1900 - Helene Weigel, actress († 1971) 1907 - Katharine Hepburn, actress († 2003) 1910 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist († 1994) 1912 - Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General and Watergate special prosecutor 1914 - Howard K. Smith, journalist († 2002) 1918 - Julius Rosenberg, spy († 1953) 1921 - Joseph Beuys, artist († 1986) 1921 - Farley Mowat, writer, naturalist 1924 - Tony Hancock, comedian († 1968) 1925 - Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Famer 1928 - Burt Bacharach, composer 1935 - Felipe Alou, Major League Baseball manager 1936 - Frank Stella, painter 1937 - George Carlin, comedian 1942 - Ian Dury, rock star († 2000) 1948 - Steve Winwood, singer ("Blind Faith", "Traffic") 1955 - Brett Gurewitz, guitarist for Bad Religion and NOFX 1962 - Emilio Estevez, actor 1966 - Stephen Baldwin, actor 1968 - Tony Hawk, skateboarding legend 1970 - Mike Weir, Canadian golfer, 2003 Masters champion 1975 - Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player Deaths 1357 - Alphonso IV of Portugal 1641 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford 1845 - Janos Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet 1867 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist 1884 - Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer 1889 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist 1907 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author 1925 - Amy Lowell, poet 1935 - Jozef Pilsudski, father of modern Poland 1944 - Max Brand, author 1944 - Q, British writer 1956 - Louis Calhern, silent film actor 1985 - Jean Dubuffet, painter 1986 - Elisabeth Bergner, actress 1988 - Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter 1992 - Robert Reed, actor 2001 - Perry Como, singer Holidays and Observances Events Alpha Bootids meteor shower ends See Also: May 11 - May 13 - April 12 - June 12 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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