Talk:May 12

May 12: Whit Monday (Western Christianity, 2008); Buddha's Birthday in Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea (2008); International Nurses Day

• 1551 – The National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, was founded in Lima, Peru.
• 1885 – North-West Rebellion: Louis Riel (pictured) and the Métis rebels were decisively defeated by Canadian forces under Major-General Frederick Middleton in Batoche, Saskatchewan.
• 1926 – A general strike by British trade unions "in defence of [coal] miners' wages and hours" ended after nine days.
• 1941 – German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
• 1958 – Canada and the United States signed a formal agreement establishing the North American Air Defense Command to provide aerospace warning and defense for North America.

More events: May 11 – May 12 – May 13