May 12

In keeping with the Look Up theme for blogging month I thought I'd share information that I looked up today! Since it's May 12 how about looking at 12 interesting (or not) events for May 12th!

1. May 12 is the 132nd day of the year. There are 233 days remaining until the end of the year.
2. Florence Nightingale was born on this day in 1820.
3. Katharine Hepburn was born on this day in 1907.
4. In 1874 American inventor Elijah J. McCoy patented an ironing table.
5. In 1930, Chicago's Adler Planetarium first opened to the public.
6. In 1958, the United States and Canada signed an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
7. National Nurses Week is May 6-12 and May 12 is Nurses Day.
8. The 63rd Cannes Film Festival opens today in the south of France.
9. It's International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases.
10. If you were born today your zodiac sign is Taurus. 
11. In 1969 the number one song was Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In by Fifth Dimension.
12. It's National  Limerick Day. In honor of which here is a limerick for you: 

A bather whose clothing was strewed,

By winds that left her quite nude,

Saw a man come along,

And unless we are wrong,

You expected this line to be lewd.