On This Day
12 May
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1949 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit became the first foreign woman ambassador of free India.
- 1993 Santosh Yadav became the first Indian woman to reach the summit a second time.
- 1993 Shamsher Bahadur Singh, poet, writer and pillar of the progressive trilogy of modern Hindi poetry, died. He won the Sahitya Akademi in 1977.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1820 Florence Nightingale, Crimean War British nurse known as "Lady with the Lamp", was born in Florence, Italy. She is also known as the founder of modern nursing.
- 1949 The Soviet Union lifted its blockade of Berlin.
- 1967 John Masefield, English poet and writer, died.
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