Today's Holidays in May 12

✡️ Religious Observances

• Buddhist: Vesak (Buddha Day) major

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2017 — A ransomware attack attacks over 400 thousand computers worldwide, targeting computers of the UK'S National Health Services and... ↗
• 2015 — A train derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures more than 200. ↗
• 2015 — Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3500. ↗
• 2008 — An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people. ↗
• 2008 — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400... ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1995 — Irina Khromacheva, Russian tennis player
• 1990 — Florent Amodio, French figure skater
• 1990 — Tobias Strobl, German footballer
• 1989 — Eleftheria Eleftheriou, Greek Cypriot singer, musician, and actress
• 1988 — Marcelo, Brazilian footballer

🏀 Sports on this Date

• NHL: Colorado Avalanche @ Minnesota Wild — 00:00 Final
• NBA: Detroit Pistons @ Cleveland Cavaliers — 00:00 Final
• MLB: Arizona Diamondbacks @ Texas Rangers — 00:05 Final
• MLB: Seattle Mariners @ Houston Astros — 00:10 Final
• MLB: San Francisco Giants @ Los Angeles Dodgers — 02:10 Final
• NBA: Oklahoma City Thunder @ Los Angeles Lakers — 02:30 Final