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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_12" title="May 12">May 12</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1743" title="1743">1743</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Austrian_Succession" title="War of the Austrian Succession">War of the Austrian Succession</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_monarchy" title="Habsburg monarchy">Habsburg</a> ruler <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa" title="Maria Theresa">Maria Theresa</a></b> was crowned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bohemia" title="Kingdom of Bohemia">Queen of Bohemia</a> after driving French troops from the territory.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938" title="1938">1938</a> – During an exercise to demonstrate air power, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Corps" title="United States Army Air Corps">United States Army Air Corps</a> bomber aircraft <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interception_of_the_Rex" title="Interception of the Rex">intercepted</a></b> the Italian ocean liner <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Rex" title="SS Rex">SS 620 nautical miles (1,100 km) off the US Atlantic coast.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948" title="1948">1948</a> – The United Kingdom publicly announced that it was <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Explosive_Research" title="High Explosive Research">independently developing nuclear weapons</a></b>, after the US <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Energy_Act_of_1946" title="Atomic Energy Act of 1946">Atomic Energy Act of 1946</a> ended cooperation on the matter.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968" title="1968">1968</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Australian_Task_Force" title="1st Australian Task Force">1st Australian Task Force</a> began the defence of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Coral%E2%80%93Balmoral" title="Battle of Coral–Balmoral">Fire Support Base Coral</a></b> in the largest unit-level action of the war for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Army" title="Australian Army">Australian Army</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998" title="1998">1998</a> – Four students <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisakti_shootings" title="Trisakti shootings">were shot and killed</a></b> by Indonesian soldiers at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisakti_University" title="Trisakti University">Trisakti University</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta" title="Jakarta">Jakarta</a>, which led to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1998_riots_of_Indonesia" title="May 1998 riots of Indonesia">widespread riots</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Suharto" title="Fall of Suharto">the resignation</a> of President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto" title="Suharto">Suharto</a> nine days later.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Palaiologos" title="Thomas Palaiologos">Thomas Palaiologos</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1465); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Frank" title="Otto Frank">Otto Frank</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1889); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moto_Hagio" title="Moto Hagio">Moto Hagio</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1949)</p>
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