May 12

May 12 is the 132nd day of the year (133rd on a leap year) on the Gregorian calendar.http://www.infoplease.com/spot/gregorian1.html The Zodiac sign for individuals born on this day is Taurus. http://www.findyourfate.com/astrology/taurus.htm

May 12 is celebrated worldwide as International Nurses Day. The day is meant to commemorate the many contributions nurses have made to medicine and society as a whole. International Nurses Day was first celebrated in 1965, as an unofficial celebration. Nearly 10 years later, the decision was made to move the day to May 12, the birth date of one of the most famous nurses in history, Florence Nightingale. In some parts of the world, calls for the celebration to be moved to another day have occurred, with many suggesting another day in May.http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\13\story_13-5-2010_pg13_7

The day is also celebrated as Limerick Day. The day is meant to celebrate the birth date of writer Edward Lear and his Limerick poems.http://www.holidayinsights.com/stpat/limerickday.htm Limericks were first popularized by Lear in 1846, in his book "Book of Nonsense Limerick poems got their name from Limerick, Ireland.http://www.holidayinsights.com/stpat/limerickday.htm The poem is always a humorous work, containing five lines, with the first, second, and fifth line rhyming and the third and fourth line rhyming.

• 1983: Pope John Paul II is attacked by a Spanish priest while visiting the shrine of Fatima in Portugal, he was lightly wounded.

• 1971: The Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias at the town hall in the French Mediterranean town of St Tropez.

• 1949: The Soviet Union lifted it's blockade of West Berlin allowing countries to deliver much needed aid to citizens.
• 1943: World War II: Axis forces under Col. Gen. Dietloff von Arnim surrender in North Africa.

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