About the day » Monday May 12, 1997Calender converter

• Frenkie DE JONG, Gorinchem

• Adriaan Bakker (77), Haarlem, Nederland
• Bessie Beatrice Clark **** (86), Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Eugène DECLERCQ (77)
• Dirkje van Dijk (101)
• Elisabeth Johanna Hendrica Maria van de Put (86), Tilburg
• Elisa Ostyn (89), Moorslede,8890,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Bernardus Johannes Hoog Antink (64)
• Annie B. Baker (86)
• Alida Jacoba de Jong (88), Den Helder
• Annie Bakker (86), Whitinsville MA

• 1986 » Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
• 1986 » Jonathan Orozco, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Kieron Pollard, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1988 » Marcelo, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 » Eleftheria Eleftheriou, Greek Cypriot singer, musician, and actress
• 1990 » Florent Amodio, French figure skater
• 1992 » Volha Khudzenka, Belarusian kayaker
• 1995 » Irina Khromacheva, Russian tennis player
• 1995 » Luke Benward, American actor and singer
• 1997 » Morgan Lake, English athlete

• 1992 » Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and songwriter (b. 1911)
• 1992 » Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
• 1993 » Zeno Colò, Italian Olympic alpine skier (b.1920)
• 1994 » Erik Erikson, German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1902)
• 1994 » John Smith, Scottish-English lawyer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1938)
• 1995 » Ștefan Kovács, Romanian football player and coach (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American illustrator (b. 1914)
• 2000 » Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
• 2001 » Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 (b. 1925)
• 2001 » Perry Como, American singer and television host (b. 1912)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
• January 17 » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
• February 22 » In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
• June 13 » A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• July 10 » In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
• August 29 » At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
• September 11 » NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.

The temperature on May 12, 1997 was between 6.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.