May 19

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

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and Observances

Events

Sunday, May 19, 1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with 3 ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's 2 sons (who Cartier kidnapped during his first voyage).
Tuesday, May 19, 1535 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England is beheaded for adultery.
Sunday, May 19, 1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England arrests Mary Queen of Scots.
Tuesday, May 19, 1643 - Battle of Rocroi: French victory over the Spanish at Rocroi, France.
Wednesday, May 19, 1649 - An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament.
Monday, May 19, 1749 - King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
Friday, May 19, 1780 - Never-explained complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England states at 2 pm.
Wednesday, May 19, 1802 - The Légion d'Honneur is founded by first consul Napoleon Bonaparte.
Monday, May 19, 1828 - U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 in to law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
Friday, May 19, 1848 - Mexican-American War: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Mexico ratifies the treaty thus ending the war and ceding Texas, California and most of Arizona and New Mexico to the United States for $15 million dollars.
Thursday, May 19, 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Spotsylvania ends.
Wednesday, May 19, 1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from prison.
Monday, May 19, 1919 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk moved 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 to the Independence War.
Thursday, May 19, 1921 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the United States Congress establishing national quotas on immigration.
Thursday, May 19, 1932 - The gangster film opens at the Rialto Theater in Los Angeles, California.
Wednesday, May 19, 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 be later delayed over a month due to bad weather).
Friday, May 19, 1961 - Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first manmade object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (however the probe had lost contact with earth a month earlier and did not send back data).
Saturday, May 19, 1962 - "Birthday Salute to President John F. Kennedy" takes place at Madison Square Garden, highlighted by Marilyn Monroe's infamous rendition of Happy Birthday. 34 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.
Tuesday, May 19, 1964 - Vietnam War: The United States Air Force begins Operation Yankee Team.
Wednesday, May 19, 1971 - Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
Sunday, May 19, 1991 - Willy T. Ribbs became the first African-American driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
Wednesday, May 19, 1999 - is released movie theaters across the United States setting a new record for opening day sales at $28.5 million.
Saturday, May 19, 2001 - One child policy: Zhonghua Sun is put to death by People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized.
Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - Shrek 2 is released

Births

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)
1870 - Albert Fish, serial killer (d. 1936)
1879 - Nancy Astor, first woman to sit in British House of Commons (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)
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)
1934 - Jim Lehrer, journalist, co-anchor
1939 - Dick Scobee, astronaut (d. 1986)
1939 - Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
1941 - Nora Ephron, screenwriter
1942 - Gary Kildall, computer programmer (d. 1997)
1945 - Pete Townshend, guitarist, lyricist
1946 - André the Giant, wrestler (d. 1993)
1948 - Grace Jones, singer, actress
1949 - Archie Manning, American football quarterback
1952 - Joey Ramone, singer (d. 2001)
1953 - Victoria Wood, British comic actress
1956 - James Gosling, the "father" of Java programming language
1976 - Kevin Garnett, basketball player (2004 NBA Most Valuable Player)

Deaths

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)
1821 - Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
1825 - Comte, founder of French socialism (b. 1760)
1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, author (b. 1804)
1885 - Peter W. Barlow, engineer (b. 1809)
1895 - José Martí, Cuban independence leader (Dos Rios) (b. 1853)
1898 - William Ewart Gladstone, British prime minister (b. 1809)
1904 - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
1907 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
1909 - Isaac Albéniz, composer (b. 1860)
1946 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
1954 - Charles Ives, composer (b. 1874)
1958 - Ronald Colman, actor (b. 1891)
1969 - Coleman Hawkins, jazz musician (b. 1901)
1971 - Ogden Nash, poet (b. 1902)
1983 - Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
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 - 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

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