May 12th, International Nurses Day

Damascus, SANA-

1641- Abel Tasman discovers New Zealand.

1894-The Japanese forces invade Korea.

1937-George VI becomes king of England.

1947- Announcing the constitution of West Germany.

1949- Declaring the independence of Magnolia.

1951- The US tests a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean.

2002-Former US President Jimmy Carter visits Cuba to become the first US president to visit the country since Cuban President Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.

2010- An Airbus A-330 operated by the Libyan Airways crashes, and 103 people killed with a nine-year- old Dutch boy as a sole survivor.

Born Today:

1496- King Gustav I of Sweden.

1895- US Chemist William Francis Giauque.

1910- British Chemist Dorothy Mary Hodgkin.

Passed Away:

1382- Queen Joanna I “Italian: Giovanna” of Naples.

1970- German-born, American psychologist Erik Erikson.

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