Thursday, May 12, 2011

May 12

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 1551 National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru. Animal Collective College Sung Tongs
2 1588 French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs. Sonic Youth (I Got a) Catholic Block Sister
3 1864 American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle". The Fall Flat of Angles Dragnet
4 1870 The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15. Manitoba People Eating Fruit Start Breaking My Heart
5 1935 Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling. The New Pornographers The Slow Descent into Alcoholism Mass Romantic
6 2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution. Septeto Matamoros Oye Mi Coro Secret Museum of Mankind
7 2003 Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan. The Olivia Tremor Control Hideaway Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1

(Historical facts about May 12 are from Wikipedia.)

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