Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: May 12
May 12, 2025 is the 132nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 233 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Taurus is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 12
- 922 –After much hardship, Abbasid envoy Ahmad ibn Fadlan arrived in the lands of Volga Bulgars.
- 1551 –National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
- 1864 –American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in “the Bloody Angle”.
- 1885 –North-West Rebellion: the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
- 1937 –George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- 1942 –Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
- 1949 –The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
- 1955 –Nineteen days after bus workers went on strike in Singapore, rioting breaks out and seriously impacts Singapore’s bid for independence.
- 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.
- 2003 –The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26 people.
Who were born on May 12?
- 1889 –Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980)
- 1895 –Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (d. 1986)
- 1948 –Joe Tasker, British mountaineer (d. 1982)
- 1948 –Steve Winwood, British musician (The Spencer Davis Group; Traffic)
- 1957 –Lou Whitaker, American baseball player
- 1960 –Ian Khan, British racing driver
- 1967 –Joe McKinney, Irish actor
- 1970 –Samantha Mathis, American actress
- 1978 –Wilfred Le Bouthillier, Canadian singer
- 1987 –Gianluca Sansone, Italian footballer
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