Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, ( 20 December 189415 May 1978 ) was an Australian politician and the 12th Prime Minister of Australia.

Their 12th album, The Else, was released July 10, 2007, on Idlewild Recordings ( and distributed by Zoë Records for the CD version ), with an earlier digital release on May 15 at the iTunes Store.

* May 14 – Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia ( b. 1894 )

* May 12 – John Martin Poyer, United States Navy Commander and the 12th Governor of American Samoa ( b. 1861 )

William Henry Seward ( May 16, 1801October 10, 1872 ) was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

In April 1982, the original Rapier was deployed during the Falklands War when T Battery of the 12th Regiment Royal Artillery joined 3 Commando Brigade as part of the Falklands Task Force, landing at San Carlos on 21 May.

On May 12th 1957, The Pike Theatre staged " The Rose Tattoo " with Anna Manahan as the lead and the Irish scenic artist Reginald Gray as the set designer.

This was released on the 12th of May 2008 by Wall of Sound.

12th of the first part of the moon cycle in the month of Vaishakha ( April / May ,) Lord Krishna ( as Kalki ) arrived then the father was mentally overwhelmed by the son being born This also points to the sun sign of Aries.

Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Reed of the 12th Indiana Calvary seized the town on May 29, 1864 during the American Civil War.

The 12th SMS and 490th SMS activated in March and May 1962.

* William Henry Seward, Sr. ( May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872 ), born in Florida, was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator, and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

The extended line from Kirkhaugh to Lintley Halt was officially opened in Saturday 12th May 2012 by Lord Inglewood, a long-time friend of the railway society.

By May, the Greek forces consisted of approximately 9, 000 troops: three battalions of the 5th Division of the Hellenic Army, which had been left behind when the rest of the unit had been transferred to the mainland to oppose the German invasion ; the Cretan Gendarmerie ( a battalion-sized force ); the Heraklion Garrison Battalion, a defence battalion made up mostly of transport and logistics personnel ; and remnants of the 12th and 20th Hellenic Army divisions, which had escaped to Crete and were organised under British command.

May 1st to 12th of every year, to celebrate the patron saint San Pedro Gonzales of Thelmo.

# 6 May 1945: Third Army, 12th Army Group

His sympathies were now with the Gironde, and after the insurrection of the 12th Prairial ( 31 May 1793 ) his life was in danger.

A similar curse dates to the Kassite dynasty ( 12th century BC ), threatening oath-breakers: " May Marduk, king of heaven and earth, fill his body with dropsy, which has a grip that can never be loosened ".

Then, on 12th May 1725, the society took it upon itself to " pass " Brother Cotton and Brother Papillion Ball as Master Masons.

The Yorkists crossed onto the south bank of the Tyne on the night of 12th / 13 May and were by the morning of the 14th in a position to attack Hexham.

* Diocese of Edinburgh, Dr John Armes ( consecrated 12th May 2012 )

Palden Thondup Namgyal ( May 23, 1923 – January 29, 1982 ) was the 12th and last Chogyal ( king ) of Sikkim.

The two married on 12th May, 1962, returning to Germany shortly afterwards.

Following the election the new parliament meet in the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh for the very first time on Wednesday 12th May 1999 although the actual devolution of powers from Westminster to the Scottish Parliament did take place until midnight on Thursday 1st July 1999 almost two months later.

Between May and August 1953 the 12th Strategic Fighter Wing pulled a rotational TDY at Misawa relieving the 27th and being relieved in turn by the 31st Strategic Fighter Wing.

* May 22 – Saint Humility ( b. c. 1226 )

Neville was named Lord Chancellor of England on 17 May 1226.

# ( 2 ) 14 May 1226: Hethum I, king of Cilician Armenia ( 1215 – 28 October 1270 )

* May 28 – Unity Mitford, British friend of Adolf Hitler ( b. 1914 )

Adolf Zukor, who incorporates Paramount Pictures on May 8, 1914, launches his company as the distributor.

* May 11 – In Buenos Aires, four Mossad agents abduct the fugitive Nazi criminal against humanity, Adolf Eichmann, in order that he could be taken to Israel and put on trial.

* May 23 – Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured.

* May 10 – Gustav IV Adolf is officially deposed from the Swedish throne by the Riksdag of the Estates.

* May 31 – Nazi Adolf Eichmann is hanged at a prison in Ramla, Israel.

* May 12 – Adolf von Henselt, German composer

* May 14 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden ( d. 1771 )

In his inaugural address as rector on May 27 he expressed his support to a German revolution, and in an article and a speech to the students from the same year he even supported Adolf Hitler.

* May 12 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( b. 1658 )

* May, Adolf.

In May he defended the new regime in a radio broadcast, saying " the German workers are better off than ever before ," and later signed the Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft, the " vow of most faithful allegiance " to Adolf Hitler.

Ramp metering was first implemented in 1963 on the Eisenhower Expressway ( Interstate 290 ) in Chicago by Adolf D. May, now a UC Berkeley professor.

Adolf Frederick or Adolph Frederick (, ; Gottorp, 14 May 1710 – Stockholm, 12 February 1771 ) was King of Sweden from 1751 until his death.

Artist Adolf Dehn was born in Waterville, Minnesota, November 22, 1895 and he died in New York City, May 19, 1968.

On 5 May 1292 in Frankfurt am Main, the Archbishop of Mainz, in the name of all the electors, elected Adolf King of the Germans ( Emperor-Elect ).

On 8 May 1858, Duke Adolf of Nassau established a Military and Civil Order of Merit for the Duchy.

One of Hyde's last presidential acts was a visit to the German ambassador Eduard Hempel on 3 May 1945 to offer his condolences on the death of Adolf Hitler.

The Germans surrendered Alderney on May 16, 1945, eight days after the Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, and seven days after the liberation of Guernsey and Jersey.

On 8 November 1727 in Vechelde, Christian August married Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp ( 24 October 1712-30 May 1760 ), daughter of Prince Christian August of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin and sister of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden.

Victory in Europe Day — known as V-E Day or VE Day — was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 ( in Commonwealth countries, 7 May 1945 ) to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe.

In May 2008 the White Cube gallery exhibited 13 apparently authenticated watercolours painted by Adolf Hitler, to which the brothers had added hippie motifs.

Adolf von Harnack ( 7 May 1851 – 10 June 1930 ), was a German Lutheran theologian and prominent church historian.

According to The Man Who Was M: The Life of Charles Henry Maxwell Knight by Anthony Masters, ISBN 0-631-13392-5, The Link was allegedly resurrected in 1940 by Ian Fleming, then working in the Department of Naval Intelligence, in order to successfully lure Rudolf Hess ( deputy party leader and third in leadership of Germany, after Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring ) to Britain in May 1941.