12 May

A list of events which occurred on the 12th of May.
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:Peter Allan Fields is born.
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:Jon Cavett is born.
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:Paula Crist is born.
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:Richard Riehle is born.
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:Jennifer Hetrick is born.
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:Mario Muñoz is born.
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:Kevin Bouchez and April Grace are born.
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:Rob Moran is born.
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:Second day of filming on . Planetside scenes are filmed today.
:A planned sequel to is drafted by John D.F. Black (this script will eventually be adapted into ).
:Story outline submitted for undeveloped The Original Series episode "He Walked Among Us" by Norman Spinrad and Gene L. Coon.
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:David Mack is born.
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:Steve Ihnat dies.
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:The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #85 with the twelfth of seventeen installments.
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:Philip Boyd is born.
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:Ryan Ridley is born.
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:Amy Wheaton is born.
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:Hayden Hiebert is born.
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:Fifty-seventh and final day of filming on . Principal photography is completed.
:Larc Spies is born.
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:Thirty-third day of filming on .
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:Filming wraps on the first season of 
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: airs.
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:Thirty-first day of filming on .
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: airs.
: airs.
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: airs.
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:Remastered version of airs.
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:Ava Cheung is born.
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: premieres in Japan.
:Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection (Blu-ray), Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy (Blu-ray), Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy (DVD), The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series, and are released in Region 1/A.
:Pocket Books novelization of , by Alan Dean Foster, is released.
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:Phyllis Douglas dies.
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:John Boyer dies.
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:Frank Bolle dies.
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:Wilbur Finks dies.
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: premieres on Paramount+.
;Unknown year
:Gregory L. Norris is born.
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