The 1926 United Kingdom general strike ends. Date: May 12, 1926 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 12 📅 Events on this day in 1926 📅 On This Day (Today)

The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. Date: May 12, 1926 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 12 📅 Events on this day in 1926 📅 On This Day (Today)

Ten weeks after his abduction, Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, is found dead near Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home. Date: May 12, 1932 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 12 📅 Events on this day in 1932 📅 On This Day (Today)

President Roosevelt signs legislation creating the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the predecessor of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Date: May 12, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 12 📅 Events on this day in 1933 📅 On This Day (Today)

The Agricultural Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural production through government purchase of livestock for slaughter and paying subsidies to farmers when they remove land from planting, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Date: May 12, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 12 📅 Events on this day…

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom are crowned in Westminster Abbey. Date: May 12, 1937 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 12 📅 Events on this day in 1937 📅 On This Day (Today)

Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. Date: May 12, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 12 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)

World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507. Date: May 12, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 12 📅 Events on this day in 1942 📅 On This Day (Today)

World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later. Date: May 12, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May…

Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin. Date: May 12, 1949 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 12 📅 Events on this day in 1949 📅 On This Day (Today)