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May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). There are 226 days remaining.

Contents

1 Events

1.1 1500-1899
1.2 1900-1999
1.3 2000-2099

2 Births

2.1 1700-1899
2.2 1900-1999

3 Deaths

3.1 800-1899
3.2 1900-1999
3.3 2000-2099

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1500-1899

1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with 3 ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's 2 sons (who Cartier kidnapped during his first voyage).
1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England is beheaded for adultery.
1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England arrests Mary Queen of Scots.
1643 - Battle of Rocroi: French victory over the Spanish at Rocroi, France.
1649 - An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament.
1749 - King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
1780 - Never-explained Canada and the New England area of America at 2 pm.
1802 - The L�gion d'Honneur is founded byNapoleon Bonaparte.
1828 - U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
1848 - Mexico ratifies the treaty thus ending the war and ceding Texas, California and most of Arizona and United States for $15 million dollars.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.

1900-1999

1919 - Mustafa Kemal Atat�rk moves to Samsun from Istanbul by an old ship called Bandirma with his few friends to work separately from |Ottoman Government in order to prepare the nation for the Independence War.
1921 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress establishing national quotas on immigration.
1922 - Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union created.
1932 - The gangster film Scarface: The Shame of a Nation opens at the Rialto Theater in Los Angeles, California.
1943 - World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the cross-English Channel landing (D-Day would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather).
1961 - Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back data).
1962 - A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's infamous rendition of Happy Birthday. Thirty-four years later, John F. Kennedy, Jr. had actress Drew Barrymore pose as Monroe for the cover of George magazine with the heading "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" in honor of then-President Bill Clinton turning 50.
1964 - Vietnam War: The United States Air Force begins Operation Yankee Team.
1971 - Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
1991 - Willy T. Ribbs becomes the first African-American driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
1999 - United States setting a new record for opening day sales at $28.5 million.

2000-2099

2001 - One child policy: Zhonghua Sun is put to death by People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized.

2004 - Shrek 2 is released.

2005 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is expected to be released movie theaters across the United States.

Births

1700-1899

1762 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, philosopher (d. 1814)

1773 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer (d. 1854)

1795 - Johns Hopkins, philanthropist (d. 1873)

1827 - Paul Amand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)

1844 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)

1861 - Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)

1870 - Albert Fish, serial killer (d. 1936)

1879 - Nancy Astor, first woman to sit in British House of Commons (d. 1964)

1880 - Sir Albert Richardson, architect (d. 1964)

1882 - Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (d. 1967)

1890 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969)

1891 - Oswald Boelcke, World War I fighter ace (d. 1916)

1897 - Frank Luke, World War I fighter ace (d. 1918)

1900-1999

1906 - Gerd Bucerius, publisher and publicist (d. 1995)

1908 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)

1909 - Bruce Bennett, actor

1914 - Go Seigen, Go player

1914 - Max Perutz, molecular biologist (d. 2002)

1921 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)

1924 - Sandy Wilson, British composer

1925 - Malcolm X, civil rights activist (d. 1965)

1925 - Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge leader(d. 1998)

1926 - Peter Zadek, film and theatre director

1930 - Lorraine Hansberry, playwright (d. 1965)

1931 - Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor

1934 - Jim Lehrer, journalist, co-anchor

1939 - Dick Scobee, astronaut (d. 1986)

1939 - Livio Berruti, Italian athlete

1939 - Nancy Kwan, Actress

1941 - Nora Ephron, screenwriter

1942 - Gary Kildall, computer programmer (d. 1994)

1944 - Peter Mayhew, actor Chewbacca

1945 - Pete Townshend, guitarist, lyricist

1946 - Andr� the Giant, wrestler (d. 1993)

1948 - Grace Jones, singer, actress

1949 - Archie Manning, American football quarterback

1952 - Joey Ramone, singer (d. 2001)

1952 - Grace Jones, model

1989 - Rebecca Glass, Nerd

1953 - Victoria Wood, British comic actress

1956 - James Gosling, the "father" of Java programming language

1973 - Dario Franchitti, automobile racer

1975 - London Fletcher, American football player

1976 - Kevin Garnett, basketball player

Deaths

800-1899

804 - Alcuin, monk from York, England (b. c. 735)

1102 - Stephen, Count of Blois (b. c. 1045)

1125 - Vladimir Monomakh (b. 1053)

1296 - Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)

1536 - Anne Boleyn (b. c. 1507)

1645 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman (b. c. 1584)

1715 - Charles Montagu, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)

1786 - John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)

1795 - Josiah Bartlett, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)

1795 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)

1821 - Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)

1825 - Saint-Simon, founder of French socialism (b. 1760)

1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, author (b. 1804)

1885 - Peter W. Barlow, engineer (b. 1809)

1895 - Jos� Mart�, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853)

1898 - William Ewart Gladstone, British prime minister (b. 1809)

1900-1999

1904 - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)

1907 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)

1909 - Isaac Alb�niz, Spanish composer (b. 1860)

1935 - T. E. Lawrence, English soldier ("Lawrence of Arabia") (b. 1888)

1946 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)

1954 - Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)

1958 - Ronald Colman, actor (b. 1891)

1969 - Coleman Hawkins, jazz musician (b. 1901)

1971 - Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)

1983 - Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)

1984 - John Betjeman, English poet (b. 1906)

1987 - James Tiptree, Jr, science fiction author (b. 1915)

1994 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)

1998 - Uno Sosuke, Japanese prime minister (b. 1922)

2000-2099

2000 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)

2002 - Walter Lord, writer

2002 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)

2003 - Erik Zimen, wolf researcher

2004 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)

Holidays and observances

Feast of Saint Dunstan

Commemoration of Atat�rk, Youth and Sports Day in Turkey (1919)

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1500-1899

1900-1999

2000-2099

Births

1700-1899

1900-1999

Deaths

800-1899

1900-1999

2000-2099

Holidays and observances

Events