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Show THIS DATE IN HISTORY, MAY 12. 1441 Execution or Thomas, earl of Strafford, English minister; minis-ter; born 1698. im Execution of William Kldd, the most famous pirate that ever Infested the seas. He was previously a New York ea captain.. 1778 Crown Point taken from! the British by CoL Seth Warner. War-ner. 1780 Store of nharlmton n r by the British; the Amerl- saAt 1. X. a. cans capitulated. stuakt. 1808-Unlon victory at Raymond, Mies. Ketches occupied. 1804 Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, sometimes called the Confederate "Sir Rupert," a distinguished cavalry leader, killed in Virginia; aged 41. 1884 Federal attack on Dniry's Bluff, near Richmond, Rich-mond, Va., repulsed; Union loss, 8,018; Confederate, Con-federate, 11,600. 1871 ueath of Sir John Horschel, astronomer; born 179S. 1878 Gen. Iiroacio Agramontc, Cuban insurrectionist, insurrec-tionist, killed, aged S. 1878-Death at Elmira, N. Y., of Catherine Beecher, authoress,, aged Jl; alster of Henry Ward Beecher. i s 1888 Death of the mother of President V. 8. Grant, aged 84. |