📜 This Day in History

May 12

• 1510Zhu Zhifan, the Prince of Anhua (in modern Shaanxi, China), began an unsuccessful rebellion against the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.
• 1881Under threat of invasion, Muhammad III as-Sadiq, Bey of Tunis, signed the Treaty of Bardo to make Tunisia a French protectorate.
• 1941German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the first working programmable and fully automatic computer, to an audience of scientists in Berlin.
• 1975The Cambodian navy seized the American container ship SS Mayaguez in what they claimed to be Cambodian territorial waters.
• 2010On arrival at Tripoli International Airport, Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashed into the ground at a speed of 262 kn (485 km/h; 302 mph) and exploded, killing all but one of the 304 people on board.
• 2022The Event Horizon Telescope released the first image of Sagittarius A*.

Born on this day

• 1820Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse, social reformer, and statistician (died 1910)
• 1907Katharine Hepburn, American actress (died 2003)
• 1910Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
• 1980Rishi Sunak, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom