On This Day:
Tuesday May 12, 2015 This is the 132nd day of the year, with 233 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: Indian pudding Indian Pudding is a baked pudding made chiefly of cornmeal, milk, and molasses. This hearty, old-fashioned dessert originated in New England. It's a spicy, cornmeal-molasses baked pudding that can sometimes include sliced apples. Indian pudding is usually served with whipped cream, hard sauce or ice cream. The name Indian pudding comes from the addition of cornmeal - early colonists called most everything made with corn "Indian." Originally the pudding was cooked in a pot over the open hearth and was very dense.
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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