Daily Calendar for May 12th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1360s

• 1364: The oldest university in Poland, Jagiellonian University, was founded

1820s

• Born 1820: Florence Nightingale (nurse)

1870s

• 1870: Manitoba Act passed, approving Manitoba to become a Canadian province

1880s

• 1888: Charles Sherrill first demonstrated a crouching start for sprinters

• Died 1889: John Cadbury (chocolate manufacturer)

1900s

• Born 1907: Katharine Hepburn (actress)

1920s

• Born 1925: Yogi Berra (baseball player)

1930s

• 1930: Adler Planetarium, first in U.S., opened

• Died 1934: Winnie (the bear Christopher Robin Milne named his toy bear after)

• 1935: Alcoholics Anonymous founded

• Born 1937: George Carlin (comedian; first to host Saturday Night Live)

1960s

• Born 1962: Emilio Estevez (actor)

• 1966: Manitoba’s flag officially adopted

• Born 1968: Tony Hawk (skateboarder)

• Born 1969: Kim Fields (actress)

1970s

• 1970: Montreal was chosen as the site for the 1976 Summer Olympics

• 1978: U.S. Commerce Department announced hurricanes would no longer be named solely after women

1980s

• Born 1986: Emily VanCamp (actress)

1990s

• Died 1992: Robert Reed (actor)

• Born 1992: Malcolm David Kelley (actor)

• Born 1995: Sawyer and Sullivan Sweeten (actors who played Geoffrey and Michael Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond)

• 1997: Susie Maroney swam from Cuba to Florida in 24.5 hours

2000s

• Died 2000: Adam Petty (race car driver)

• Died 2001: Perry Como (singer)

• 2004: The discovery of what is likely the Library of Alexandria was announced

• Died 2005: Emanuel Gluck (Yankee Stadium's longest-working vendor; wore badge No. 1)

• 2006: 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.

• 2008: 7.8-magnitude earthquake, Sichuan province, China

2010s

• 2015: A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal less than 3 weeks after a 7.8-magnitude quake