Today is Saturday, May 12, the 133rd day of 2012. There are 233 days left in the year.
1551 ― San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, opens
1777 ― First ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-New York Gazette)
1792 ― Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
1832 ― Gaetano Donizetti's opera ``L'Elisir D'amore" premieres in Milan
1888 ― Crouching start first used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
1928 ― Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
1940 ― Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Meuse River
1959 ― Liz Taylor's fourth marriage (Eddie Fisher)
1997 ― Fourteen North Koreans defect to South Korea
1997 ― Russia and Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict