12th of May 2026
12th of May 2026 is the 132nd day of the year.
It is St Pancras’s Day...more.
This day in history:
1455: Battle of Arkinholm - ...more
1588: Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon - ...more
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British quote for the day:
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing - George Orwell.
Born today:
Lady Emma Hamilton - 1765, Molly Reibey - 1777, Edward Lear - 1812, Florence Nightingale - 1820, Dante G Rossetti - 1828, Eleanor Rathbone - 1872, Christopher Hinton - 1901, Lennox Berkeley - 1903, Wilfrid Hyde-White - 1903, Dorothy Hodgkin - 1910, Tony Hancock - 1924, Miriam Stoppard - 1937, Chris Patten - 1944, Alan Ball - 1945, Steve Winwood - 1948, Helena Kennedy - 1950, Deborah Warner - 1959, Catherine Tate - 1968, Mark Foster - 1970.
Died today:
Henry VI - 1471, George Chapman - 1634, John Rushworth - 1690, Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1944, John Masefield - 1967, Humphrey Searle - 1982, John Smith - 1994, Richard Chorley - 2002.
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