On This Day:
Monday May 12, 2014 This is the 132nd day of the year, with 233 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Richard Nixon's enemies list Former president Richard M. Nixon had an "enemies list," including prominent politicians, journalists, entertainers, academics, and others. He used federal agencies to harass them. The list, compiled in 1971 by Charles Colson, White House Special Counsel, was officially known as "Opponents List" and "Political Enemies Project." The original memo consisted of the following 20 names: Arnold M. Picker, Alexander E. Barkan, Ed Guthman, Maxwell Dane, Charles Dyson, Howard Stein, Allard Lowenstein, Morton Halperin, Leonard Woodcock, S. Sterling Munro, Jr., Bernard T. Feld, Sidney Davidoff, John Conyers, Samuel M. Lambert, Stewart Rawlings Mott, Ronald Dellums, Daniel Schorr, S. Harrison Dogole, Paul Newman, and Mary McGrory. The list was later expanded to include the names of some prominent celebrities, media people, businesspeople, businesses, and organizations.
Holidays Feast day of St. Dominic of the Causeway, St. John Stone, St. Ethelhard, St. Fremund, Saints Nereus and Achilleus, St. Pancras of Rome, St. Epiphanius of Salamis, St. Germanus of Constantinople, St.. Modoaldus, and St Rictrudis.
Events 1847 - William Clayton invented the odometer.
1870 - Manitoba became a Canadian province.
1881 - Tunisia, in North Africa, became a French protectorate.
1926 - Roald Amundsen reached the North Pole in a dirigible.
1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio by "Bill W.," a stockbroker, and "Dr. Bob S.," a medical doctor.
1937 - King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey upon the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII. He was later succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.
1941 - Hitler backs Iraq's Rashid Ali al-Gailani in his fight against Britain.
1943 - Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.
1949 - The Soviet Union lifted its 11-month land blockade against West Berlin, which was an early crisis of the Cold War.
1957 - Texan A.J. Foyt won his first major race, a midget car race, in Kansas City, Missouri.
1978 - The U.S. Commerce Department said hurricanes would no longer be given only female names.
1992 - Four suspects were arrested in the beating of truck driver Reginald Oliver Denny at the start of the Los Angeles riots.
2002 - Jimmy Carter became the first present or former U.S. president to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959.
Births 1820 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse, born in Florence, Italy, who was the founder of modern nursing.
1828 - Dante Rossetti, English poet.
1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican statesman and noted historian, first student at Harvard to graduate with a PhD in political science.
1907 - Katharine Hepburn, American Academy Award-winning actress.
1915 - Mary Kay Ash, American, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
1925 - Yogi Berra (Lawrence Peter Berra), American baseball player and coach.
1937 - George Carlin, American stand-up comedian, actor, and author.
1948 - Steve Winwood, English musician.
1968 - Tony Hawk, professional American skateboarder.
Deaths 1957 - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born American silent-film actor and director.
1999 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born American cartoonist.
2000 - Adam Petty, American race car driver, and first fourth-generation driver in NASCAR history.
2001 - Perry Como (born Pierino Ronald Como), American singer.
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