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[DeliriousKris]

April 2 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 273 days remaining until the end of the year.

1902 – "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
1945 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established.
1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; hardest hit is in Tennessee with 29 people killed.

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Thanks for the History Lesson 

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April 5 is the 95th day of the year (96th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 270 days remaining until the end of the year.

1536 – Royal Entry of Charles V into Rome: the last Roman triumph.
1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1792 – U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1949 – Fireside Theater debuts on television.

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April 17 is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 258 days remaining until the end of the year.

1492 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
1937 – Daffy Duck's first appearance, in Porky's Duck Hunt.
1964 – Ford Mustang is introduced to the North American market.
2013 – An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.

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April 20 is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days remaining until the end of the year.

1789 – President George Washington arrives in Philadelphia after his inauguration to elaborate welcome at Gray's Ferry just after noon first inauguration of George Washington
1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
1972 – Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
2013 – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Japan's last reactor is shut down at midnight.

Happy Easter!

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April 21st....

Anthony Quinn was born in 1915
Queen Elizabeth was born in 1926
Charles Grodin was born in 1935
Iggy Pop was born in 1947
Tony Danza was born in 1951
Andie MacDowell was born in 1958
Robin Meade was born in 1969
James McAvoy was born in 1979
Tony Romo was born in 1980

Mark Twain died in 1910
The Red Baron died in 1918
Gummo Marx died in 1977

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April 24th.....

Shirley MacLaine was born in 1934
Barbara Streisand was born in 1942
Stacy Haiduk was born in 1968
Kelly Clarkson was born in 1982
Tyson Ritter (lead singer of The All American Rejects)was born in 1984 (reportedly at a Van Halen concert!)
 

Comedy Legend Bud Abbott died in 1974
Pat Paulsen died in 1997

[DeliriousKris]

April 24 is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining until the end of the year.

1184 BC – Traditional date of the fall of Troy.
1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
1970 – The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
2005 – Snuppy becomes world's first cloned dog.

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May 2 is the 122nd day of the year (123rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 243 days remaining until the end of the year.

1932 – Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
1946 – The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place; two guards and three inmates are killed.
2000 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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May 8 is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 237 days remaining until the end of the year.

1821 – Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn.
1898 – The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
1976 – The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
1978 – The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.

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May 14 is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of the year.

1643 – Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
1897 – The Stars and Stripes Forever is first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1963 – Kuwait joins the United Nations.
1993 – American actress and singer Miranda Cosgrove was born.

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May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 227 days remaining until the end of the year.

1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.
1896 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
2011 – 22 people are killed when Sol Lνneas Aιreas Flight 5428 crashes in southern Argentina.

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The following is your daily snapshot of what happened on this day in history, May 19th. On this day in history, May 19, 1962, actress Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday” to John F. Kennedy. JFK thanked Marilyn, saying, “I can now retire from politics after having had ‘Happy Birthday’ sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome way.”

BORN MAY 19TH:
 May 19, 1048 – Omar Khayyαm, Persian poet (d. 1131)
 May 19, 1593 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
 May 19, 1700 – Josι de Escandσn, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)
 May 19, 1724 – Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)
 May 19, 1744 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German-born wife of King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1818)
 May 19, 1762 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1814)
 May 19, 1773 – Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
 May 19, 1795 – Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873)
 May 19, 1797 – Maria Isabel of Portugal, Queen of Spain (d. 1818)
 May 19, 1827 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
 May 19, 1861 – Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
 May 19, 1870 – Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936)
 May 19, 1871 – Walter Russell, American polymath (d. 1963)
 May 19, 1874 – Gilbert Laird Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955)
 May 19, 1879 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born British politician (d. 1964)
 May 19, 1880 – Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (d. 1964)
 May 19, 1881 – Mustafa Kemal Atatόrk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938)
 May 19, 1882 – Mohammed Mosaddeq, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
 May 19, 1890 – Hồ Chν Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969)
 May 19, 1891 – Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916)
 May 19, 1897 – Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
 May 19, 1898 – Julius Evola, Italian philosopher and esotericist (d. 1974)
 May 19, 1906 – Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
 May 19, 1908 – Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
 May 19, 1908 – Merriam Modell, American author (d. 1994)
 May 19, 1909 – Sir Nicholas Winton, British wartime humanitarian
 May 19, 1910 – Alan Melville, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1948, (d. 1983)
 May 19, 1910 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1949)
 May 19, 1914 – Max Perutz, Austrian-born British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
 May 19, 1914 – Go Seigen, Japanese Go player
 May 19, 1914 – Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
 May 19, 1918 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000)
 May 19, 1919 – Mitja Ribičič, Slovenian Communist politician, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
 May 19, 1921 – Yuri Kochiyama, American civil rights activist
 May 19, 1921 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
 May 19, 1921 – Daniel Gιlin, French actor (d. 2002)
 May 19, 1922 – Joe Gilmore, Irish barkeep
 May 19, 1924 – Sandy Wilson, British composer
 May 19, 1925 – Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
 May 19, 1925 – Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
 May 19, 1925 – Guy Provost, French Canadian actor (d. 2004)
 May 19, 1926 – Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author
 May 19, 1926 – Peter Zadek, German theatre director (d. 2009)
 May 19, 1928 – Colin Chapman, British car designer (d. 1982)
 May 19, 1928 – Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach
 May 19, 1928 – Gil McDougald, American baseball player (d. 2010)
 May 19, 1929 – John Stroger, American politician (d. 2008)
 May 19, 1930 – Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d. 1965)
 May 19, 1931 – Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor
 May 19, 1931 – Bob Anderson, British racing driver (d. 1967)
 May 19, 1932 – Claude Blanchard, French Canadian comedian and actor (d. 2006)
 May 19, 1932 – Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
 May 19, 1932 – Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007)
 May 19, 1934 – Ruskin Bond, Indian author
 May 19, 1934 – Bill Fitch, American basketball head coach
 May 19, 1934 – Jim Lehrer, American television journalist
 May 19, 1935 – David Hartman, American actor and television personality
 May 19, 1937 – Pat Roach, English actor and wrestler (d. 2004)
 May 19, 1938 – Moisιs da Costa Amaral, East Timorese politician (d. 1989)
 May 19, 1938 – Madge Hindle, English actress
 May 19, 1939 – Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
 May 19, 1939 – James Fox, English actor
 May 19, 1939 – Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong actress
 May 19, 1939 – *bleep* Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
 May 19, 1940 – Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
 May 19, 1940 – Mickey Newbury, American musician (d. 2002)
 May 19, 1941 – Bobby Burgess, American dancer and singer
 May 19, 1941 – Nora Ephron, American screenwriter
 May 19, 1942 – Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (d. 1994)
 May 19, 1942 – Robert Kilroy-Silk, British politician and television presenter
 May 19, 1944 – Peter Mayhew, British-American actor
 May 19, 1945 – Pete Townshend, English guitarist (The Who)
 May 19, 1946 – Andrι the Giant, French professional wrestler (d. 1993)
 May 19, 1946 – Claude Leliθvre, Belgian commissioner for children’s rights
 May 19, 1947 – Paul Brady, Northern Ireland singer/songwriter
 May 19, 1947 – David Helfgott, Australian pianist
 May 19, 1947 – Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
 May 19, 1948 – Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
 May 19, 1949 – Dusty Hill, American singer and bassist (ZZ Top)
 May 19, 1949 – Archie Manning, American football player
 May 19, 1951 – Joey Ramone, American vocalist and songwriter (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
 May 19, 1951 – *bleep* Slater, American professional wrestler
May 19, 1952 – Bert van Marwijk, Dutch footballer
 May 19, 1953 – Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian finswimmer
 May 19, 1953 – Dawud M. Mu’Min, American convicted murderer (d. 1997)
 May 19, 1953 – Victoria Wood, English comedian and actress
 May 19, 1954 – Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC)
 May 19, 1955 – James Gosling, Canadian computer programmer
 May 19, 1956 – Steven Ford, American actor
 May 19, 1956 – Martyn Ware, British musician and music producer
 May 19, 1957 – Bill Laimbeer, American basketball player and coach
 May 19, 1959 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (d. 1994)
 May 19, 1961 – Gregory Poirier, American screenwriter and director
 May 19, 1963 – Filippo Galli, Italian footballer
 May 19, 1963 – Yazz, English singer
 May 19, 1964 – Miloslav Mečνř, Slovakian tennis player
 May 19, 1964 – Lawrence Ng, Hong Kong actor
 May 19, 1964 – Sean Whalen, American actor
 May 19, 1965 – Cecilia Bolocco, Chilean television presenter and 1987 Miss Universe
 May 19, 1965 – Boris, French singer
 May 19, 1965 – Maile Flanagan, American actress
 May 19, 1966 – Marc Bureau, Canadian ice hockey player
 May 19, 1966 – Sophia Crawford, English actress and martial artist
 May 19, 1966 – Jodi Picoult, American writer
 May 19, 1966 – Polly Walker, English actress
 May 19, 1967 – Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and sculptor
 May 19, 1968 – Kyle Eastwood, American jazz musician
 May 19, 1970 – Choi Kyung-Ju, South Korean golfer
 May 19, 1970 – Mario Dumont, Canadian politician
 May 19, 1970 – Jason Gray-Stanford, Canadian actor
 May 19, 1971 – Ross Katz, American film producer
 May 19, 1971 – Psicosis, Mexican professional wrestler
 May 19, 1972 – Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
 May 19, 1972 – Claudia Karvan, Australian actress
 May 19, 1973 – Dario Franchitti, Scottish race car driver
 May 19, 1974 – Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league footballer
 May 19, 1975 – Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
 May 19, 1975 – Jonas Renkse, Swedish musician
 May 19, 1975 – London Fletcher, American football player
 May 19, 1975 – Delma Gonηalves, Brazilian footballer
 May 19, 1975 – Josh Paul, American baseball player
 May 19, 1976 – Ed Cota, American basketball player
 May 19, 1976 – Kevin Garnett, American basketball player
 May 19, 1977 – Manuel Almunia, Spanish footballer
 May 19, 1977 – Brandon Inge, American baseball player
 May 19, 1977 – Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer and actress
 May 19, 1977 – Kelly Sheridan, Canadian voice actress
 May 19, 1978 – Marcus Bent, English footballer
 May 19, 1978 – Kim Zolciak, American reality show star and singer
 May 19, 1979 – Diego Forlαn, Uruguayan footballer
 May 19, 1979 – Barbara Nedeljαkovα, Slovak actress
 May 19, 1979 – Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
 May 19, 1980 – Drew Fuller, American actor and model
 May 19, 1980 – Tony Hackworth, English footballer
 May 19, 1981 – Bong Tae-gyu, South Korean actor
 May 19, 1981 – Luciano Figueroa, Argentine footballer
 May 19, 1981 – Georges St. Pierre, Canadian mixed martial artist
 May 19, 1981 – Michael Leighton, Canadian hockey player
 May 19, 1982 – Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
 May 19, 1982 – Pεl Steffen Andresen, Norwegian footballer
 May 19, 1983 – Eve Angel, Hungarian pornographic actress
 May 19, 1983 – Jessica Fox, English actress
 May 19, 1984 – Marcedes Lewis, American football player
 May 19, 1984 – Carla Lynch, British comedienne and model
 May 19, 1985 – Chris Loudon, Scottish darts player
 May 19, 1986 – Mario Chalmers, American basketball player
 May 19, 1986 – Eric Lloyd, American actor
 May 19, 1987 – David Edgar, Canadian footballer
 May 19, 1987 – Mariano Torres, Argentine footballer
 May 19, 1988 – Lily Cole, English model and actress
 May 19, 1989 – Jasmine, Japanese singer
 May 19, 1991 – Jordan Pruitt, American singer
 May 19, 1992 – Michele Camporese, Italian footballer

DIED MAY 19TH:
 May 19, 804 – Alcuin, English monk and scholar (b. c.735)
 May 19, 988 – Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)
 May 19, 1102 – Stephen II, Count of Blois (b. c.1045)
 May 19, 1125 – Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
 May 19, 1296 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
 May 19, 1319 – Louis d’Ιvreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)
 May 19, 1389 – Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)
 May 19, 1526 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
 May 19, 1531 – Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
 May 19, 1536 – Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1501 or 1507)
 May 19, 1601 – Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (b. 1528 or 1529)
 May 19, 1610 – Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
 May 19, 1637 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
 May 19, 1715 – Charles Montagu, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
 May 19, 1786 – John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)
 May 19, 1795 – Josiah Bartlett, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)
 May 19, 1795 – James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
 May 19, 1798 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English nobleman, and duelist (b. 1722)
 May 19, 1821 – Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
 May 19, 1825 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
 May 19, 1864 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
 May 19, 1865 – Sengge Rinchen, Mongol Qing Dynasty field marshal (b. 1811)
 May 19, 1876 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (b. 1801)
 May 19, 1885 – Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
 May 19, 1895 – Josι Martν, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853)
 May 19, 1898 – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
 May 19, 1903 – Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (b. 1856)
 May 19, 1904 – Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
 May 19, 1907 – Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
 May 19, 1912 – Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)
 May 19, 1915 – John Simpson Kirkpatrick, stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
 May 19, 1918 – Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
 May 19, 1935 – T. E. Lawrence, English soldier, known as Lawrence of Arabia (b. 1888)
 May 19, 1940 – Diego Mazquiarαn, Spanish matador (b. 1895)
 May 19, 1943 – Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
 May 19, 1945 – Philipp Bouhler, German *bleep* leader (b. 1889)
 May 19, 1946 – Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
 May 19, 1954 – Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)
 May 19, 1958 – Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927)
 May 19, 1958 – Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
 May 19, 1963 – Walter Russell, American polymath (b. 1871)
 May 19, 1965 – Tu’i Malila, the world’s oldest tortoise (b. circa 1777)
 May 19, 1969 – Coleman Hawkins, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1901)
 May 19, 1971 – Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
 May 19, 1975 – Li Tobler, Swiss actress (b. 1948)
 May 19, 1983 – Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
 May 19, 1984 – John Betjeman, English poet and Poet Laureate (b. 1906)
 May 19, 1986 – Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b. 1931)
 May 19, 1987 – James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915)
 May 19, 1989 – CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901)
 May 19, 1994 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States 1961-1963 (b. 1929)
 May 19, 1994 – Luis Ocaρa, Spanish cyclist (b. 1945)
 May 19, 1998 – Sōsuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
 May 19, 1999 – James Blades, English percussionist (b. 1901)
 May 19, 1999 – Candy Candido, American actor (b. 1913)
 May 19, 2000 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)
 May 19, 2001 – Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
 May 19, 2002 – John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
 May 19, 2002 – Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917)
 May 19, 2003 – Camoflauge, American rapper (b. 1981)
 May 19, 2004 – Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)
 May 19, 2005 – Henry Corden, American actor and voice artist (b. 1921)
 May 19, 2006 – Freddie Garrity, English vocalist (Freddie and the Dreamers) (b. 1940)
 May 19, 2007 – Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
 May 19, 2008 – Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (b. 1928)
 May 19, 2009 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
 May 19, 2009 – Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1916)
 May 19, 2011 – Tran Hong Phong. CVAS-OAM TMA SOLUTION (b. 1988)
 May 19, 2009 – Nicholas Maw, British composer (b. 1935)
 May 19, 2009 – Herbert York, American physicist (b. 1921)

MAY 19TH MEMORABLE EVENTS:
 May 19, 1499 – Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
 May 19, 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 had kidnapped during his first voyage).
 May 19, 1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
 May 19, 1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
 May 19, 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.
 May 19, 1649 – An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
 May 19, 1749 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
 May 19, 1780 – New England’s Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
 May 19, 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Lιgion d’Honneur.
 May 19, 1828 – U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
 May 19, 1845 – Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
 May 19, 1848 – Mexican-American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for $15 million USD.
 May 19, 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
 May 19, 1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
 May 19, 1911 – Parks Canada, the world’s first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
 May 19, 1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatόrk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
 May 19, 1921 – The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
 May 19, 1922 – The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
 May 19, 1934 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d’ιtat and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister.
 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 Normandy landings (“D-Day”). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.
 May 19, 1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
 May 19, 1959 – The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
 May 19, 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 any data).
 May 19, 1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe‘s rendition of Happy Birthday.
 May 19, 1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
 May 19, 1991 – Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
 May 19, 1997 – The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts.
 May 19, 2007 – President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension.
 May 19, 2010 – The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.

MEMORABLE QUOTE:

“The one thing I do not want to be called is ‘First Lady.’ It sounds a lot like a saddle horse.” (Jacqueline Kennedy)

[DeliriousKris]

May 20 is the 140th day of the year (141st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 225 days remaining until the end of the year.

1862 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.
1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
2013 – An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
  Today we celebrate a year of recovery, regrowth, rebuilding. We are Oklahoma Strong!

[brainboy22]

Quite a few cool facts in here. Thanks for the info!