May 12 Events 254 - Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I , becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church . 907 - Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule. 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre in Cyprus ; she is crowned Queen consort of England the same day. 1328 - Antipope Nicholas V , a claimant to the papacy , is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice . 1364 - Jagiellonian University , the oldest university in Poland , is founded in Kraków . 1510 - The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all the officials invited to a banquet and declares his intent on ousting the powerful Ming dynasty eunuch Liu Jin during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor . 1551 - National University of San Marcos , the oldest university in the Americas , is founded in Lima , Peru . 1588 - French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry I, Duke of Guise , enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs. 1593 - London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel. 1743 - Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor . 1778 - Heinrich XI , count of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz , is elevated to Prince by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor . 1780 - American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army , Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces. 1797 - War of the First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice. 1821 - The first major battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks is fought in Valtetsi . 1846 - The Donner Party of pioneers departs Independence, Missouri for California , on what will become a year-long journey of hardship and cannibalism . 1862 - American Civil War: U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana . 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: Two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign . 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest. 1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory. 1870 - The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent , paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15 . 1881 - In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate . 1885 - North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche , pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat. 1888 - In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo. 1926 - The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. 1932 - Ten weeks after his abduction , Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh , is found dead near Hopewell, New Jersey , just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home. 1933 - The Agricultural Adjustment Act , which restricts agricultural production through government purchase of livestock for slaughter and paying subsidies to farmers when they remove land from planting, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1937 - The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey. 1941 - Konrad Zuse presents the Z3 , the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine , Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later. 1942 - World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the. 1948 - Wilhelmina , Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands , cedes the throne. 1949 - Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin . 1965 - The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon . 1968 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral . 1978 - In Zaire , rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi , the mining center of the province of Shaba ; the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order. 1981 - Francis Hughes , Provisional IRA hunger striker , dies in the Maze Prison , Northern Ireland . 1982 - During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal , security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet . 1989 - The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people. 1998 - Four students are shot at Trisakti University , leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto . 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 , in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution . 2003 - The Riyadh compound bombings , carried out by al-Qaeda , kill 26 people. 2006 - Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo , leaving at least 150 dead. 2006 - Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country. 2008 - An earthquake occurs in Sichuan , China, killing over 69,000 people. 2008 - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa , arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud. 2010 - Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes on final approach to Tripoli International Airport in Tripoli, Libya, killing 103 out of the 104 people on board. 2015 - A train derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures more than 200. 2015 - Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3500. 2017 - The WannaCry ransomware attack impacts over 400 thousand computers worldwide, targeting computers of the United Kingdom's National Health Services and Telefónica computers. 2018 - Paris knife attack: A man was fatally shot by police in Paris after killing one and injuring several others.Births 1325 - Rupert II, Elector Palatine 1401 - Emperor Shōkō of Japan 1479 - Pompeo Colonna , Catholic cardinal 1496 - Gustav I of Sweden 1590 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1606 - Joachim von Sandrart , German art-historian and painter 1622 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac , French-Canadian soldier and politician, 3rd Governor General of New France 1626 - Louis Hennepin , Flemish priest and missionary 1670 - Augustus II the Strong , Polish king 1700 - Luigi Vanvitelli , Italian architect and engineer, designed the Palace of Caserta and Royal Palace of Milan 1725 - Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans 1739 - Johann Baptist Wanhal , Czech-Austrian organist and composer 1754 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister , German composer and publisher 1755 - Giovanni Battista Viotti , Italian violinist and composer 1767 - Manuel Godoy , Spanish field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of Spain 1774 - Ellis Cunliffe Lister , English politician 1777 - Mary Reibey , Australian businesswoman 1803 - Justus von Liebig , German chemist and academic 1804 - Robert Baldwin , Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Premier of West Canada 1806 - Johan Vilhelm Snellman , Finnish philosopher and politician 1812 - Edward Lear , English poet and illustrator 1814 - Adolf von Henselt , German pianist and composer 1820 - Florence Nightingale , Italian-English nurse, social reformer, and statistician 1825 - Orélie-Antoine de Tounens , French lawyer and explorer 1828 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti , English poet and painter 1829 - Pavlos Carrer , Greek composer and educator 1839 - Tôn Thất Thuyết , Vietnamese mandarin 1840 - Alejandro Gorostiaga , Chilean colonel 1842 - Jules Massenet , French composer 1845 - Gabriel Fauré , French pianist, composer, and educator 1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge , American historian and politician 1850 - Frederick Holder , Australian politician, 19th Premier of South Australia 1859 - William Alden Smith , American lawyer and politician 1859 - Frank Wilson , English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Western Australia 1863 - Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury , Bengali writer, painter, violin player and composer, technologist and entrepreneur. 1867 - Hugh Trumble , Australian cricketer and accountant 1869 - Carl Schuhmann , German gymnast, wrestler, and weightlifter 1872 - Anton Korošec , Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia 1873 - J. E. H. MacDonald, English-Canadian painter 1874 - Clemens von Pirquet , Austrian pediatrician and immunologist 1875 - Charles Holden , English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library 1880 - Lincoln Ellsworth , American explorer 1885 - Paltiel Daykan , Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and jurist 1885 - Saneatsu Mushanokōji , Japanese author 1886 - Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and pilot 1899 - Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico 1889 - Otto Frank , German-Swiss businessman and Holocaust survivor; father of diarist Anne Frank 1892 - Fritz Kortner , Austrian-German actor and director 1895 - William Giauque , Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1895 - Jiddu Krishnamurti , Indian-American philosopher and author 1900 - Helene Weigel , Austrian-German actress 1901 - The Duke of Paducah , American country comedian, radio host and banjo player 1903 - Faith Bennett , British actress and ATA pilot during WWII 1903 - Wilfrid Hyde-White , English actor 1905 - Édouard Rinfret , Canadian lawyer and politician, Postmaster General of Canada 1907 - Leslie Charteris , English author and screenwriter 1907 - Katharine Hepburn , American actress 1908 - Nicholas Kaldor , Hungarian-English economist 1910 - James Dudley , American baseball player, wrestling manager and executive 1910 - Johan Ferrier , Surinamese educator and politician, 1st President of Suriname 1910 - Dorothy Hodgkin , English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1910 - Gordon Jenkins , American pianist and composer 1911 - Charles Biro , American author and illustrator 1912 - Henry Jonsson , Swedish runner 1912 - Marshal Royal , American saxophonist and clarinet player 1914 - Bertus Aafjes , Dutch poet and author 1914 - Howard K. Smith, American journalist and actor 1915 - Tony Strobl , American comics artist and animator 1916 - Albert Murray , American author and critic 1918 - Mary Kay Ash , American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics 1918 - Julius Rosenberg , American spy 1921 - Joseph Beuys , German sculptor and illustrator 1921 - Farley Mowat , Canadian environmentalist and author 1922 - Marco Denevi , Argentinian lawyer and author 1922 - Murray Gershenz , American actor and businessman 1922 - Bob Goldham , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster 1922 - Roy Salvadori , English race car driver and manager 1924 - Maxine Cooper , American actress and photographer 1924 - Alexander Esenin-Volpin , Russian-American mathematician and poet 1924 - Tony Hancock , English actor, producer, and screenwriter 1925 - Yogi Berra , American baseball player, coach, and manager 1926 - Paulette Poujol-Oriol , Hatian educator and writer 1926 - Viren J. Shah, Indian politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal 1928 - Burt Bacharach , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer 1929 - Sam Nujoma , Namibian politician, 1st President of Namibia 1929 - Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player 1930 - Jesús Franco , Spanish director and screenwriter 1932 - Joel Joffe, Baron Joffe , South African-English lawyer and politician 1933 - Andrei Voznesensky , Russian poet 1935 - Felipe Alou , Dominican-American baseball player, coach, and manager 1935 - Johnny Bucyk , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster 1936 - Guillermo Endara , Panamanian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Panama 1936 - Tom Snyder , American journalist and talk show host 1936 - Frank Stella , American painter and sculptor 1937 - Beryl Burton , English cyclist 1937 - George Carlin , American comedian, actor, and author 1937 - Susan Hampshire , English actress 1937 - Miriam Stoppard , English physician and author 1938 - Millie Perkins , American actress 1939 - Cyril Chantler , English pediatrician and academic 1939 - Jalal Dabagh , Kurdish journalist and politician 1939 - Miltiadis Evert , Greek minister and politician, 69th Mayor of Athens 1939 - Reg Gasnier , Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster 1939 - Ron Ziegler , American politician, White House Press Secretary 1940 - Lill Lindfors , Swedish singer 1940 - Norman Whitfield , American songwriter and producer 1941 - Ruud de Wolff , Dutch singer 1942 - Ian Dury , English singer-songwriter 1942 - Michel Fugain , French singer-songwriter 1942 - Billy Swan , American country singer-songwriter 1942 - Dragoljub Velimirović , Serbian chess player and theoretician 1944 - Chris Patten , English academic and politician, 28th Governor of Hong Kong 1945 - Alan Ball, Jr., English footballer and manager 1945 - Ian McLagan , English keyboard player and songwriter 1945 - Patrick Ricard , French businessman 1946 - Daniel Libeskind , American architect, designed the Imperial War Museum North and Jewish Museum 1947 - Michael Ignatieff , Canadian journalist and politician 1948 - Lindsay Crouse , American actress 1948 - Dave Heineman , American captain and politician, 39th Governor of Nebraska 1948 - Richard Riehle , American actor 1948 - Steve Winwood , English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 1949 - Ross Bleckner , American painter 1950 - Bruce Boxleitner , American actor and author 1950 - Gabriel Byrne , Irish actor, director, and producer 1950 - Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws , Scottish lawyer, academic, and politician 1950 - Billy Squier , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1951 - George Karl , American basketball player and coach 1955 - Kix Brooks , American country music singer-songwriter and musician 1956 - Bernie Federko , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager 1956 - Sergio Marchi , Argentinean-Canadian urban planner and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of International Trade 1956 - Greg Phillinganes , American keyboardist 1956 - Asad Rauf , Pakistani cricketer and umpire 1957 - Ziya Onis , Turkish economist and academic 1958 - Kim Greist , American actress 1958 - Andreas Petroulakis , Greek cartoonist 1958 - Dries van Noten , Belgian fashion designer 1959 - Dave Christian , American ice hockey player 1959 - Ray Gillen , American rock singer-songwriter 1959 - Ving Rhames , American actor 1960 - Lisa Martin , Australian runner 1961 - Thomas Dooley , German-American soccer player and manager 1961 - Billy Duffy , English rock guitarist and songwriter 1961 - Bruce McCulloch , Canadian actor and comedian 1962 - Emilio Estevez , American actor 1962 - Brett Gurewitz , American guitarist and songwriter 1962 - Gregory H. Johnson, English-born American astronaut 1963 - Panagiotis Fasoulas , Greek basketball player and politician 1963 - Gavin Hood , South African actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1963 - Stefano Modena , Italian race car driver 1963 - Vanessa A. Williams, American actress and producer 1964 - Pierre Morel , French director and cinematographer 1965 - Renée Simonsen , Danish model and writer 1965 - Stacy Wilson , Canadian ice hockey player 1966 - Stephen Baldwin , American actor 1966 - Bebel Gilberto , American-Brazilian singer-songwriter 1966 - Deborah Kara Unger , Canadian actress 1967 - Mireille Bousquet-Mélou , French mathematician 1967 - Bill Shorten , Australian politician 1968 - Tony Hawk , American skateboarder and actor 1968 - Catherine Tate , English actress and screenwriter 1969 - Suzanne Clément , Canadian actress 1969 - Kim Fields , American actress 1970 - Mark Foster , English swimmer 1970 - Jim Furyk , American golfer 1970 - Samantha Mathis , American actress 1970 - Mike Weir , Canadian golfer 1970 - David A. R. White, American actor and producer 1971 - Doug Basham , American wrestler 1971 - Jamie Luner , American actress 1972 - Christian Campbell , Canadian-American actor, writer and photographer 1973 - Mackenzie Astin , American actor 1973 - Lutz Pfannenstiel , German footballer and manager 1975 - Jonah Lomu , New Zealand rugby player 1975 - Ricky Ortiz , American professional wrestler and football player 1976 - Kardinal Offishall , Canadian rap musician and producer 1977 - Graeme Dott , Scottish snooker player and coach 1977 - Maryam Mirzakhani , Iranian mathematician 1977 - Onur Saylak , Turkish actor, filmmaker and director 1977 - Rachel Wilson , Canadian actress and voice actress 1978 - Aaron Abrams , Canadian actor 1978 - Malin Åkerman , Swedish-Canadian model, actress, and singer 1978 - Jason Biggs , American actor and comedian 1978 - Aya Ishiguro , Japanese singer and fashion designer 1979 - Adrian Serioux,Canadian soccer player 1979 - Aaron Yoo , American actor 1980 - Keith Bogans , American basketball player 1981 - Rami Malek , American actor 1981 - Kentaro Sato , Japanese-American composer and conductor 1981 - Dennis Trillo , Filipino actor and singer 1982 - Donnie Nietes , Filipino boxer 1983 - Domhnall Gleeson , Irish actor 1983 - Alina Kabaeva , Russian gymnast and politician 1983 - Yujiro Kushida , Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist 1983 - Charilaos Pappas , Greek footballer 1983 - Virginie Razzano , French tennis player 1983 - Francisco Javier Torres , Mexican footballer 1984 - Clare Bowen , Australian actress and singer 1985 - Paolo Goltz , Argentinian footballer 1985 - Andrew Howe , Italian long jumper and sprinter 1985 - Jeroen Simaeys , Belgian footballer 1986 - Jonathan Orozco , Mexican footballer 1986 - Emily VanCamp , Canadian actress 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 - Luke Benward , American actor and singer 1995 - Irina Khromacheva , Russian tennis player 1997 - Morgan Lake , English athleteDeaths 805 - Æthelhard , archbishop of Canterbury 940 - Eutychius , patriarch of Alexandria 1003 - Sylvester II , pope of the Catholic Church 1012 - Sergius IV , pope of the Catholic Church 1090 - Liutold of Eppenstein , duke of Carinthia 1161 - Fergus of Galloway , Scottish nobleman 1182 - Valdemar I , king of Denmark 1331 - Engelbert of Admont , Benedictine abbot and scholar 1382 - Joanna I , queen of Naples 1465 - Thomas Palaiologos , Despot of Morea 1490 - Joanna , Portuguese princess and regent 1529 - Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington , English noblewoman 1599 - Murad Mirza , Mughal prince 1634 - George Chapman , English poet and playwright 1641 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford , English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1684 - Edme Mariotte , French physicist and priest 1699 - Lucas Achtschellinck , Flemish painter 1700 - John Dryden , English poet, playwright, and critic 1708 - Adolphus Frederick II , duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1748 - Thomas Lowndes , English astronomer and academic 1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam , French sculptor 1784 - Abraham Trembley , Swiss zoologist and academic 1792 - Charles Simon Favart , French playwright and composer 1796 - Johann Uz , German poet and author 1801 - Nicholas Repnin , Russian general and politician, Governor-General of Baltic provinces 1842 - Walenty Wańkowicz , Belarusian-Polish painter 1845 - János Batsányi , Hungarian poet and academic 1856 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet , French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer 1859 - Sergey Aksakov , Russian author and academic 1860 - Charles Barry , English architect, designed Upper Brook Street Chapel and the Palace of Westminster 1864 - J. E. B. Stuart, American general 1867 - Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard , German archaeologist and academic 1878 - Anselme Payen , French chemist and academic 1876 - Georgi Benkovski , Bulgarian activist 1884 - Bedřich Smetana , Czech composer and educator 1907 - Joris-Karl Huysmans , French author and critic 1916 - James Connolly , Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader 1925 - Amy Lowell , American poet and critic 1931 - Eugène Ysaÿe , Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor 1935 - Józef Piłsudski , Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland 1944 - Max Brand , American journalist and author 1944 - Arthur Quiller-Couch , English author, poet, and critic 1956 - Louis Calhern , American actor and singer 1957 - Alfonso de Portago , Spanish bobsledder and race car driver 1957 - Erich von Stroheim , Austrian-American actor, director, and producer 1963 - Richard Girulatis , German footballer and manager 1963 - Robert Kerr , Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach 1964 - Agnes Forbes Blackadder , Scottish medical doctor 1966 - Felix Steiner , Russian-German SS officer 1967 - John Masefield , English poet and author 1970 - Nelly Sachs , German poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate 1971 - Heinie Manush , American baseball player and coach 1973 - Frances Marion , American screenwriter, novelist and journalist 1973 - Art Pollard , American race car driver 1974 - Wayne Maki , Canadian National Hockey League player 1980 - Lillian Roth , American actress 1981 - Benjamin Sheares , Singaporean professor and politician, 2nd President of Singapore 1985 - Jean Dubuffet , French painter and sculptor 1986 - Elisabeth Bergner , German actress 1992 - Nikos Gatsos , Greek poet and songwriter 1992 - Robert Reed , American actor 1993 - Zeno Colò , Italian Olympic alpine skier 1994 - Erik Erikson , German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst 1994 - John Smith , Scottish-English lawyer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer 1995 - Ștefan Kovács , Romanian football player and coach 1999 - Saul Steinberg , Romanian-American illustrator 2000 - Adam Petty , American race car driver 2001 - Perry Como , American singer and television host 2001 - Alexei Tupolev , Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 2003 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan , French-American diplomat 2005 - Ömer Kavur , Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter 2005 - Martin Lings , English author and scholar 2005 - Monica Zetterlund , Swedish actress 2006 - Hussein Maziq , Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya 2008 - Robert Rauschenberg , American painter and illustrator 2008 - Irena Sendler , Polish nurse and humanitarian 2009 - Antonio Vega , Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist 2012 - Jan Bens , Dutch footballer and coach 2012 - Eddy Paape , Belgian illustrator 2013 - Gerd Langguth , German political scientist, author, and academic 2014 - Cornell Borchers , Lithuanian-German actress and singer 2014 - Marco Cé , Italian cardinal 2014 - H. R. Giger, Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer 2014 - Sarat Pujari , Indian actor, director, and screenwriter 2014 - Lorenzo Zambrano , Mexican businessman and philanthropist 2015 - Peter Gay , German-American historian, author, and academic 2015 - William Zinsser American journalist and critic 2016 - Mike Agostini , Trinidadian sprinter 2017 - Mauno Koivisto , Finnish banker and politician, 9th President of Finland 2018 - Dennis Nilsen , Scottish serial killerHolidays and observances 2nd Amendment Day Christian feast day: *Blessed Imelda *Blessed Joan of Portugal *Crispoldus *Dominic de la Calzada *Epiphanius of Salamis *Gregory Dix *Modoald *Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, and Pancras *Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople *Philip of Agira *May 12 Day of the Finnish Identity International Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day International Nurses Day Saint Andrea the First Day
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