On This Day
May 12
1912 - The British liner Lusitania became the victim of a German submarine attack with the loss of 1000 lives.
1937 - King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
1949 - The Soviet blockade that prompted the Berlin airlift was ended.
1951 - The first H-bomb tests were carried out at Eniwetok Atoll in the mid-Pacific.
1981 - Francis Hughes became the second IRA protester to starve himself to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political status to be granted to IRA prisoners.
1994 - Labour leader John Smith died in a London hospital after two serious heart attacks.
2000 - Ford workers at its Dagenham plant reacted with shock and anger at the news that after 70 years car production was to be transferred to Germany and Spain, with the loss of 3,000 jobs.
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