May 19
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May 19 is the 139th day of the year (140th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 226 days remaining after May 19 until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 1314 – Visby, on the Swedish island of Gotland, is almost completely destroyed by fire.
- 1499 – Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor.
- 1535 – Jacques Cartier sets sail on his third voyage to North America.
- 1536 – Anne Boleyn is beheaded.
- 1568 – Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- 1643 – Thirty Years' War: French forces defeat Spain in the Battle of Rocroi.
- 1649 – An Act of Parliament declares England a Commonwealth in a law passed by the Long Parliament, making England a republic.
- 1749 – George II of Great Britain grants a charter of land to the Ohio Company around the Forks of the Ohio River.
- 1780 – New England's Dark Day: thick smoke and heavy cloud causes darkness to fall over parts of Eastern Canada and New England.
- 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
- 1845 – John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition leaves England.
- 1903 – David Dunbar Buick founds the auto firm the Buick Motor Company.
- 1919 – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk lands at Samsun, on the Anatolian Black Sea coast.
- 1961 – The Venera 1 space probe flies by Venus.
- 1962 – Marilyn Monroe sings Happy Birthday, Mr. President to John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in New York.
- 1971 – The Mars 2 probe is launched by the Soviet Union.
- 1974 – Valery Giscard d'Estaing is elected President of France over Francois Mitterrand, following the death of Georges Pompidou on April 2.
- 1991 – Croatians vote overwhelmingly for independence from Yugoslavia.
- 2001 – China's "One child policy": Zhonghua Sun is put to death by the People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized.
- 2004 – Fathers 4 Justice activists hit Tony Blair with purple flour at the House of Commons in London, prompting questions about security.
- 2007 – Romania's President Traian Basescu survives an impeachment attempt and returns to work.
- 2010 – A violent military crackdown ends protests by the anti-government Red Shirts in Thailand.
- 2011 – Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigns as head of the International Monetary Fund, after he was arrested and charged with Sexual Assault in New York.
[change] Births
- 1744 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland (d. 1818)
- 1762 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1814)
- 1767 – George Prevost, British officer and diplomat, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1816)
- 1795 – Johns Hopkins, American university benefactor (d. 1873)
- 1797 – Maria Isabel of Portugal (d. 1818)
- 1860 – Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1952)
- 1861 – Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
- 1862 – Joao do Canto e Castro, President of Portugal (d. 1934)
- 1871 – Walter Russell, American artist (d. 1963)
- 1879 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born British politician (d. 1964)
- 1879 – Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, American-born British politician and newspaper proprietor (d. 1952)
- 1880 – Albert Richardson, English architect, writer and educator (d. 1964)
- 1881 – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, President of Turkey (d. 1938) (May 19 was official birthday)
- 1882 – Mohammad Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (d. 1967)
- 1890 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese political leader (d. 1969)
- 1896 – Jorge Alessandri, President of Chile (d. 1986)
- 1897 – Frank Luke, American pilot (d. 1918)
- 1908 – Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
- 1909 – Nicholas Winton, British man who organised the Czech Kindertransport to save hundreds of Jewish children
- 1910 – Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1949)
- 1914 – Max Perutz, Austrian-British molecular biologist (d. 2002)
- 1916 – Blair Lee III, acting Governor of Maryland (d. 1985)
- 1919 – Mitja Ribicic, former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
- 1921 – Yuri Kochiyama, American activist
- 1925 – Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
- 1925 – Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
- 1926 – Peter Zadek, German theatre director (d. 2009)
- 1928 – George Sinner, 29th Governor of North Dakota
- 1932 – Alma Cogan, British singer (d. 1966)
- 1932 – Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007)
- 1933 – Edward de Bono, lateral thinker
- 1939 – Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1939 – Jamie Fox, British actor
- 1941 – Nora Ephron, American screenwriter
- 1942 – Robert Kilroy-Silk, British television presenter and politician
- 1945 – Pete Townshend, British musician
- 1946 – John D. Waihee III, 4th Governor of Hawaii
- 1947 – Steve Currie, English musician (T. Rex) (d. 1981)
- 1948 – Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
- 1949 – Dusty Hill, American singer-songwriter and musician (ZZ Top and American Blues)
- 1951 – Joey Ramone, American singer (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
- 1952 – Bert van Marwijk, Dutch football manager
- 1953 – Victoria Wood, British comedienne
- 1955 – James Gosling, Canadian computer scientist
- 1959 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (d. 1995)
- 1964 – Miloslav Mecir, Slovakian tennis player
- 1966 – Jodi Picoult, American writer
- 1972 – Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
- 1973 – Dario Franchitti, Scottish racing driver
- 1977 – Manuel Almunia, Spanish footballer
- 1978 – Marcus Bent, English footballer
- 1979 – Diego Forlan, Uruguayan footballer
- 1979 – Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
- 1981 – Luciano Figueroa, Argentine footballer
- 1986 – Mario Chalmers, American basketball player
- 1987 – Mariano Torres, Argentine footballer
- 1988 – Lily Cole, British model and actress
- 1991 – Jordan Pruitt, American singer
[change] Deaths
- 804 – Alcuin, English monk and scholar (b. 735)
- 988 – Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)
- 1125 – Vladimir II Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
- 1296 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
- 1536 – Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII (b. 1501)
- 1715 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English politician and poet (b. 1661)
- 1795 – Josiah Bartlett, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)
- 1864 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (b. 1804)
- 1895 – Jose Marti, Cuban writer and revolutionary (b. 1853)
- 1896 – Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (b. 1833)
- 1898 – William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister (b. 1809)
- 1898 – Oran M. Roberts, 18th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
- 1901 – Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African politician (b. 1819)
- 1935 – T. E. Lawrence, English soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia (b. 1888)
- 1943 – Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
- 1954 – Charles Ives, composer (b. 1874)
- 1963 – Walter Russell, American artist (b. 1880)
- 1965 – Tu'i Malila, world's oldest tortoise (b. 1877)
- 1969 – Coleman Hawkins, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1901)
- 1971 – Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
- 1975 – Robert E. Quinn, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1894)
- 1983 – Jean Ley, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1902)
- 1984 – John Betjeman, British poet (b. 1906)
- 1994 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
- 1998 – Sosuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
- 2000 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)
- 2001 – Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
- 2002 – John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
- 2006 – Freddie Garrity, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
- 2009 – Robert F. Furchgott, American scientist (b. 1916)
- 2011 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1926)
[change] Observances
- Youth and Sports Day (Turkey)
- Greek Genocide Remembrance Day (Greece)
- Ho Chi Minh's birthday (Vietnam)
- Malcolm X Day (United States)
