Soviet submarine K-219 sank to the bottom of the Hatteras Abyssal Plain. Its 30+ nuclear warheads have never been recovered. All of the crew died.

http://www.lostsubs.com/Soviet.htm

Taylor Swift was born.

nothing significant happened on july 12th of my birth year except some baseball player retiring, but on july 12th of 1543, king hengry viii marriaged to cathering parr.

A landslide in Nambija, Ecuador killed 300 people. There was also an election in Paraguay.

Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.

Remember, remember the fifth of November [1605],
gunpowder, treason and plot,
I know of no reason why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
’twas his intent
to blow up the King and the Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
Hip hip hoorah!

@dailydot: OR SO YOU THINK

Sadly, the day I was born, so was he. And then it all went to shit, didn't it?

Hindus kill 3000 Muslems in Assam, India

biz markie was born on my birthday (april 8th). pope john paul II had a funeral, h. kamerlingh onnes discovered superconductivity. but the worst/most hilarious was the fact that there was an accidental air strike on nazi trains that were carrying campers in prussian hanover. the nazis decided to leave the dead and then kill the survivors.

Kurt Cobain Died.

@Grga: but does she OC?

1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.

The "Vela Incident" Sept 22nd 1979.

February 23, 1945-- "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" is taken by Joe Rosenthal

Soviets launched Mir

"Richard M. Nixon became the first United States President to visit Moscow (and only the second President, after Franklin D. Roosevelt, to visit the Soviet Union), as he and Henry Kissinger arrived to begin a summit meeting with Soviet First Secretary Brezhnev." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1972#May_22.2C_1972_.28Monday.29

Warsaw Pact was dissolved

@lukebn: If you're 67 and you look like THIS... Then I want to know your secret.

" U.S. President Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery, causing speculation about his physical fitness to continue in office." Jan. 5 1987

... meanwhile USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

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