May 12
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[edit] Events
- 1689 - King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
- 1797 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquersVenice.
- 1941 - Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer in Berlin.
[edit] Births
- 1496 - Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
- 1918 - Julius Rosenberg, Jewish communist spy (executed 1953)
[edit] Deaths
- 1966 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (b. 1896)
