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Significance of 12th May:


Every year International Nurses Day is celebrated on 12 May to commemorate the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birthday. This day also celebrates the contribution done by nurses to society around the world.


Buddha Purnima, also known as Buddha Jayanti, marks the birth of Prince Siddharta Gautama, who later became known as the Buddha and founded Buddhism. Buddha Purnima is a spiritual festival observed on the full moon day (Purnima) in the Hindu month of Vaisakha. This year, Buddha Purnima will be observed on Monday, May 12, 2025, celebrating Gautam Buddha's 2587th birth anniversary.


1949-  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India was a First foreign woman ambassador in USA.

1965- The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.

2002- Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States to visit the island since the Cuban Revolution.



Famous people who had responded birthdays on this day:

1820- Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.

1855- Pramatha Nath Bose was an Indian geologist and paleontologist.

1863- Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury was a Bengali writer, painter and entrepreneur.

1875- Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya was a modern Indian philosopher affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He gained renown for his method of "constructive interpretation".

1892- Ramanlal Vasantlal Desai was an Indian Gujarati language writer. He is considered as an important figure of the Gujarati literature as well as Gujarati novel writing.

1907- Vijay Bhatt was a noted producer, director, screenwriter of Hindi cinema.



Famous people who have death anniversaries on this day:

1993- Shamsher Bahadur Singh was an Indian poet, writer and pillar of the progressive trilogy of modern Hindi poetry. Singh won the Sahitya Akademi in 1977 for 'Chuka Bhi Hun Nahin Main'.

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