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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.
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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona 's two sons (whom 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 has Mary Queen of Scots arrested.
1604 - The town of Montreal is founded.
1643 - Thirty Years' War : French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi , marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
1649 - An Act declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament . England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
1749 - King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River .
1780 - New England's Dark Day : never-explained complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 2 pm.
1802 - The Légion d'Honneur is founded by Napoleon Bonaparte .
1828 - U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States .
1848 - Mexican-American War : Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo – Mexico ratifies the treaty thus ending the war and ceding California , Nevada , Utah and parts of five other modern-day U.S. states to the USA for USD $15 million.
1864 - American Civil War : Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol .
1919 - In Turkey , Mustafa Kemal Atatürk moves to Samsun from Istanbul with a few followers, to oppose the Ottoman government, which eventually leads to the Turkish War of Independence and the Pontic Greek Genocide .
1921 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress establishing national quotas on immigration
1922 - Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
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 .
1971 - Mars probe program : Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union .
1992 - In a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California , Vice President Dan Quayle criticizes television character Murphy Brown for ignoring the importance of fathers and bearing a child alone.
Births 1593 - Jacob Jordaens , Flemish painter (d. 1678 )
1700 - José de Escandón , Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770 )
1724 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol , British admiral and politician (d. 1779 )
1744 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818 )
1762 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte , German philosopher (d. 1814 )
1773 - Arthur Aikin , English mineralogist (d. 1854 )
1795 - Johns Hopkins , American philanthropist (d. 1873 )
1797 - Maria Isabel of Portugal , queen of Spain (d. 1818 )
1827 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour , French statesman (d. 1896 )
1861 - Dame Nellie Melba , Australian opera singer (d. 1931 )
1862 - Mikhail Nesterov , Russian painter (d. 1942 )
1870 - Albert Fish , American serial killer (d. 1936 )
1874 - Gilbert Laird Jessop , English cricketer (d. 1955 )
1879 - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor , American-born politician (d. 1964 )
1880 - Sir Albert Richardson , English architect (d. 1964 )
1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938 )
1882 - Mohammed Mossadegh , Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967 )
1890 - Ho Chi Minh , Vietnamese leader (d. 1969 )
1891 - Oswald Boelcke , German World War I pilot (d. 1916 )
1897 - Frank Luke , American World War I pilot (d. 1918 )
1898 - Julius Evola , Italian philosopher (d. 1974 )
1906 - Bruce Bennett , American athlete and actor (d. 2007 )
1908 - Percy Williams , Canadian athlete (d. 1982 )
1914 - Max Perutz , Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002 )
1914 - Go Seigen , Japanese Go player
1914 - Alex Shibicky , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005 )
1918 - Abraham Pais , Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000 )
1921 - Yuri Kochiyama , American civil rights activist
1921 - Karel van het Reve , Dutch writer (d. 1999 )
1924 - Sandy Wilson , British composer
1925 - Malcolm X , American civil rights activist (d. 1965 )
1925 - Pol Pot , Cambodian dictator (d. 1998 )
1925 - Guy Provost , French Canadian actor (d. 2004 )
1926 - Swami Kriyananda , Indian teacher and author
1928 - Colin Chapman , founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982 )
1928 - Dolph Schayes , American basketball player and coach
1929 - John Stroger Chicago politician
1930 - Lorraine Hansberry , American playwright (d. 1965 )
1931 - Eric Tappy , Swiss tenor
1932 - Alma Cogan , English singer (d. 1966 )
1934 - Jim Lehrer , American television journalist
1934 - Ruskin Bond , Indian author
1935 - Xadir N'Diaye , Senegalese-American Muslim leader
1939 - Livio Berruti , Italian athlete
1939 - James Fox , English actor
1939 - Nancy Kwan , Hong Kong actress
1939 - Dick Scobee , American astronaut (d. 1986 )
1940 - Mickey Newbury , American musician
1940 - Jan Janssen , Dutch cyclist
1941 - Nora Ephron , American screenwriter
1942 - Gary Kildall , American computer programmer (d. 1994 )
1944 - Peter Mayhew , British-American actor
1945 - Pete Townshend , English musician (The Who )
1946 - André the Giant , French professional wrestler (d. 1993 )
1946 - Claude Lelièvre , Belgian commissioner for children's rights
1947 - Michele Placido , Italian actor and director
1947 - Paul Brady , Northern Ireland singer/songwriter
1947 - David Helfgott , Australian pianist
1948 - Grace Jones , Jamaican singer and actress
1949 - Archie Manning , American football player
1949 - Dusty Hill , American blues rock singer/bassist (ZZ Top )
1951 - Joey Ramone , American musician (The Ramones ) (d. 2001 )
1952 - Bert van Marwijk , Dutch football manager
1953 - Victoria Wood , British comic actress
1953 - Dawud M. Mu'Min , American convicted murderer (d. 1997 )
1953 - Shavarsh Karapetyan , Soviet Armenian finswimmer
1954 - Phil Rudd , Australian drummer (AC/DC )
1956 - James Gosling , Canadian computer programmer
1956 - Steven Ford , American actor
1957 - Bill Laimbeer , American basketball player and coach
1963 - Yazz , British singer
1966 - Polly Walker , British actress
1968 - Kyle Eastwood , American actor; son of Clint Eastwood
1971 - Dionicio Castellanos , Mexican professional wrestler
1972 - Jenny Berggren , Swedish singer (Ace of Base )
1973 - Dario Franchitti , Scottish race car driver
1974 - Andrew Johns , Australian rugby league footballer
1975 - London Fletcher , American football player
1975 - Masanobu Ando , Japanese actor
1976 - Ed Cota , American basketball player
1976 - Kevin Garnett , American basketball player
1977 - Manuel Almunia , Spanish footballer
1977 - Brandon Inge , American baseball player
1978 - Marcus Bent , English footballer
1979 - Diego Forlán , Uruguayan footballer
1979 - Andrea Pirlo , Italian footballer
1980 - Drew Fuller , American actor/model
1981 - Georges St. Pierre , Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
1981 - Luciano Figueroa , Argentinian footballer
1981 - Klaas-Erik Zwering , Dutch swimmer
1981 - Nate Cole , American singer (formerly of Plus One }
1982 - Kevin Amankwaah , English footballer
1982 - Pål Steffen Andresen , Norwegian football
1983 - Eve Angel , Hungarian model
1984 - Marcedes Lewis , American football player
1986 - Eric Lloyd , American actor
1987 - David Edgar , Canadian-born footballer
1988 - Lily Cole , English model/actress
1991 - Jordan Pruitt , American singer
Deaths 804 - Alcuin , English monk (b. c. 735 )
988 - Dunstan , Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909 )
1102 - Stephen, Count of Blois (b. c. 1045 )
1125 - Vladimir Monomakh , Russian prince (b. 1053 )
1296 - Pope Celestine V (b. 1215 )
1319 - Louis d'Évreux , son of Philip III of France (b. 1276 )
1389 - Dmitri Donskoi , Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350 )
1526 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464 )
1531 - Jan Łaski , Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456 )
1536 - Anne Boleyn , second wife of Henry VIII of England
1601 - Costanzo Porta , Italian composer
1610 - Thomas Sanchez , Spanish theologian (b. 1550 )
1637 - Isaac Beeckman , Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588 )
1715 - Charles Montagu , Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661 )
1786 - John Stanley , English composer (b. 1712 )
1795 - Josiah Bartlett , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729 )
1795 - James Boswell , Scottish biographer (b. 1740 )
1798 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron , English dueler (b. 1722 )
1821 - Camille Jordan , French politician (b. 1771 )
1825 - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon , French political philosopher (b. 1760 )
1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne , American author (b. 1804 )
1876 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer , Dutch politician (b. 1801 )
1885 - Peter W. Barlow , English engineer (b. 1809 )
1895 - José Martí , Cuban independence leader (b. 1853 )
1898 - William Ewart Gladstone , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809 )
1904 - Auguste Molinier , French historian (b. 1851 )
1907 - Benjamin Baker , English engineer (b. 1840 )
1912 - Bolesław Prus , Polish writer (b. 1847 )
1918 - Raoul Lufbery , French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885 )
1935 - T. E. Lawrence , English soldier (b. 1888 )
1943 - Kristjan Raud , Estonian painter (b. 1865 )
1946 - Booth Tarkington , American novelist (b. 1869
1954 - Charles Ives , American composer (b. 1874 )
1958 - Ronald Colman , English actor (b. 1891 )
1965 - Tui Malila , world's oldest tortoise (b. 1773 or 1777 )
1969 - Coleman Hawkins , American 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 and Poet Laureate (b. 1906 )
1986 - Jimmy Lyons , American musician (b. 1931 )
1987 - James Tiptree, Jr , American author (b. 1915 )
1989 - CLR James , West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901 )
1994 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy , First Lady of the United States (b. 1929 )
1994 - Luis Ocaña , Spanish cyclist (b. 1945 )
1998 - Uno Sosuke , Japanese prime minister (b. 1922 )
2000 - Yevgeny Khrunov , cosmonaut (b. 1933 )
2001 - Susannah McCorkle , American singer (b. 1946 )
2002 - John Gorton , nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911 )
2002 - Walter Lord , American writer (b. 1917 )
2004 - Mary Dresselhuys , Dutch actress (b. 1907 )
2005 - Henry Corden , American actor and voice artist (b. 1921 )
2006 - Alexandrina van Donkelaar-Vink , oldest Dutch citizen (b. 1895 )
2006 - Freddie Garrity , English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940 )
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