Daily Calendar for Thursday, May 12, 2011

Events

• The oldest university in Poland, Jagiellonian University, was founded– 1364
• Manitoba Act passed, approving Manitoba to become a Canadian province– 1870
• Charles Sherrill first demonstrated a crouching start for sprinters– 1888
• Adler Planetarium, first in U.S., opened– 1930
• Manitoba’s flag officially adopted– 1966
• Montreal was chosen as the site for the 1976 Summer Olympics– 1970
• U.S. Commerce Department announced hurricanes would no longer be named solely after women– 1978
• Susie Maroney swam from Cuba to Florida in 24.5 hours– 1997
• The discovery of what is likely the Library of Alexandria was announced– 2004
• American sprinter Justin Gatlin, Olympic champion, broke the 100-meter world record with a time of 9.76 seconds at the Qatar Grand Prix in Doha, Qatar. Previous record was 9.77 seconds by Jamaica’s Asafa Powell on June 14, 2005, in Athens, Greece.– 2006
• 7.8-magnitude earthquake, Sichuan province, China– 2008
• A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal less than 3 weeks after a 7.8-magnitude quake– 2015