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TODAY IN HISTORY (May 12):
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.
1942 - 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
1948 - The state of Israel and its provisional government was established.
1970 - Edward Price, Asst. Dean of Students at the University of Texas rejected a request by the Gay Liberation Front to be recognized as a University of Texas Austin campus student organization on the grounds that they did not have a faculty advisor.
1975 - U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez was seized by Cambodian forces in international waters.
1987 - A tie vote in the Connecticut House of Representatives killed a state-wide gay rights bill.
1994 - A hearing on discrimination against transgendered people took place in San Francisco before the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. It resulted in a paper on transsexual discrimination and unanimous passage by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors of an amendment to add gender identity to the list of those protected from discrimination.
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. Good job, Jimmy.
2003 - The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26.
2003 - In Texas, fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers went into hiding over a dispute with Republicans over a congressional redistricting plan. Born on this day:
1820 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (d. 1910)
1889 - Otto Frank, German writer, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980)
1907 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
1912 - Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General and Watergate special prosecutor (d. 2004)
1918 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)
1925 - Yogi Berra, baseball player
1928 - Burt Bacharach, American composer
1936 - Tom Snyder, American journalist and television personality
1937 - George Carlin, American comedian
1937 - Gerry Studds, first US congressman to come out while in office
1940 - Joan Nestle, co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives
1948 - Steve Winwood, English singer, songwriter and musician (Blind Faith, Traffic, The Spencer Davis Group)
1950 - Bruce Boxleitner, American actor
1950 - Billy Squier, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
1950 - Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor
1961 - Bruce McCulloch, Canadian actor, writer, and comedian (Kids in the Hall)
1961 - Ving Rhames, actor
1962 - Emilio Estevez, American actor
1963 - Vanessa A. Williams, American actress
1966 - Stephen Baldwin, American actor
1968 - Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
1969 - Kim Fields, American actress
1978 - Jason Biggs, American actor
1992 - Malcolm David Kelley, American child actor (Walt on "Lost")
you forgot Mackenzie Astin, from Facts of Life fame, who was born today in 1973.
Posted by: Pot | May 12, 2006 at 11:34 AM