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Events on the 19th of May in history

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19 May 0639 Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Daizong at Jiucheng Palace.
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19 May 0715 Pope Gregory II is elected.
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19 May 0715 St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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19 May 1051 Henry I of France is married to Anne of Kiev.
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19 May 1445 John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo.
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19 May 1499 Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
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19 May 1506 Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir
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19 May 1515 George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles
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19 May 1517 Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht
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19 May 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).
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19 May 1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
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19 May 1542 The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Burma.
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19 May 1547 Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel
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19 May 1568 Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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19 May 1568 English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary
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19 May 1571 Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines
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19 May 1585 Spain confisquates English ships
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19 May 1588 Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England
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19 May 1608 Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague
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19 May 1635 France declares war on Spain
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19 May 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.
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19 May 1643 Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army
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19 May 1643 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut & New Harbor form United Colonies of New England
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19 May 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.
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19 May 1652 Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen
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19 May 1655 The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War.
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19 May 1662 Uniformity Act of England goes into effect
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19 May 1743 Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
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19 May 1749 King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
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19 May 1749 George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
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19 May 1776 American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
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19 May 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.
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19 May 1780 About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day its cause is still unexplained
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19 May 1792 Russian army enters Poland
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19 May 1793 Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)
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19 May 1796 Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds
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19 May 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
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19 May 1802 French Order of L
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19 May 1828 U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
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19 May 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
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19 May 1848 1st department store opens
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19 May 1848 Mexico gives Texas to US, ending the war
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19 May 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 US$15 million.
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19 May 1848 M
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19 May 1853 Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar
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19 May 1856 Senator Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, spoke out against slavery
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19 May 1857 William Francis Channing & Moses G Farmer patents electric fire alarm
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19 May 1862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
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19 May 1863 Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete
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19 May 1864 Skirmish at Cassville, Georgia
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19 May 1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction VA (Bermuda Hundred)
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19 May 1864 Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania
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19 May 1865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia
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19 May 1878 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield
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19 May 1884 Ringling Brothers circus premieres
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19 May 1885 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts)
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19 May 1885 Jan Matzeliger begins 1st mass production of shoes
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19 May 1885 German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon & Togoland
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19 May 1886 Camille Saint-Sa
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19 May 1891 Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered
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19 May 1892 Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer
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19 May 1892 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
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19 May 1893 Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
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19 May 1896 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in the Netherlands
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19 May 1897 Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
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19 May 1898 Post Office authorizes use of postcards
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19 May 1900 Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago
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19 May 1902 Great Britain & Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria
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19 May 1905 Italian King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss President open world's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Iselle Italy & Brig Switzerland
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19 May 1905 Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champion
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19 May 1906 Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss President open Simplon tunnel
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19 May 1906 Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
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19 May 1906 Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier
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19 May 1909 Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title
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19 May 1910 Cleveland Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Washington 5-4 in 11 innings
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19 May 1911 Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
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19 May 1911 Maurice Ravel's opera "L'Heure Espagnole" premieres in Paris France
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19 May 1911 Philadelphia Athletics are 12
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19 May 1912 American League president Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball
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19 May 1913 Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japanese from owning land
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19 May 1916 Escadrille Am
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19 May 1917 the Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
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19 May 1918 Washington's 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings
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19 May 1919 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
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19 May 1921 The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
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19 May 1921 Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
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19 May 1922 The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union is established.
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19 May 1923 49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4
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19 May 1923 KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies
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19 May 1926 French air force bombs Damascus Syria
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19 May 1928 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
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19 May 1928 Explosion in coal mine in Mather, Pennsylvania, 195 die
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19 May 1928 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp CA)
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19 May 1928 54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4
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19 May 1929 Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium; 2 people crushed to death
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19 May 1929 General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek Government
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19 May 1930 White woman win voting rights in South-Africa
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19 May 1931 Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel
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19 May 1934 Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
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19 May 1934 Military coup by Colonel Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria
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19 May 1934 Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Saturday Review of Literature"; Males who solved puzzle become members of Baker Street Irregulars
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19 May 1935 NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936
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19 May 1937 John Murray/Allen Boretz' "Room Service" premieres in NYC
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19 May 1939 Churchill signs British-Russian anti-Nazi pact
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19 May 1940 Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)
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19 May 1940 French counter attack at P
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19 May 1941 The Viet Minh, a communist coalition, formed at Cao Bằng Province, Vietnam.
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19 May 1941 German occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis
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19 May 1941 New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
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19 May 1942 Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson & Wagner)
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19 May 1942 World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
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19 May 1942 Atlanta Braves' Paul Waner is 3rd National League-er to get 3,000 hits (Anson & Wagner)
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19 May 1943 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
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19 May 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.
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19 May 1943 Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan
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19 May 1944 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Netherlands
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19 May 1944 German defense line in Italy collapsed
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19 May 1945 Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England & Australia Services
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19 May 1946 Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam
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19 May 1950 A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
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19 May 1950 Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
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19 May 1950 New York Times reports of world's smallest & dumbest mechanical brain
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19 May 1951 77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4
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19 May 1951 UN begins counter offensive in Korea
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19 May 1953 Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St. George, Utah)
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19 May 1954 Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project
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19 May 1955 Atkinson & Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt West Indies vs Australia
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19 May 1956 82nd Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4
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19 May 1956 Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning homerun, 1st homerun in 8 straight games
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19 May 1957 Adone Zoli forms Italian Government
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19 May 1958 "South Pacific" soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
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19 May 1958 Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party" in London
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19 May 1958 US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
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19 May 1959 Jan de Quay becomes Premier of the Netherlands
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19 May 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.
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19 May 1960 DJ Alan Freed is accused of bribery in radio payola scandal
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19 May 1960 Alan Freed & eight other DJs accused of taking radio payola
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19 May 1960 Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
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19 May 1960 Juan Marichal debuts as San Fransisco Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
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19 May 1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222mph
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19 May 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).
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19 May 1961 At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
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19 May 1961 New pier opens in Scheveningen
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19 May 1962 "Bravo, Giovanni" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
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19 May 1962 "John Birch Society, " by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99
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19 May 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".
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19 May 1962 88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2
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19 May 1962 Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea
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19 May 1962 Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's National League hit record with 3,431
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19 May 1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
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19 May 1963 The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
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19 May 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
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19 May 1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in the Moscow embassy
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19 May 1965 Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
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19 May 1965 West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II
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19 May 1967 US bombs Hanoi
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19 May 1967 USSR ratifies treaty with England & US banning nuclear weapons in space
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19 May 1968 20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible & Barbara Bain
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19 May 1968 Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games
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19 May 1968 Pirate Radio Brumble of Northern England 1st heard
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19 May 1971 Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
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19 May 1971 USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
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19 May 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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19 May 1972 WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
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19 May 1973 "Daisy" A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14
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19 May 1973 "Smith" opens at Eden Theater NYC for 17 performances
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19 May 1973 "Daisy" A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14
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19 May 1973 99th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4
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19 May 1974 Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass
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19 May 1974 Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
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19 May 1974 Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election
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19 May 1975 27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake & Jean Marsh
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19 May 1975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona India
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19 May 1975 Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest
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19 May 1976 Gold ownership legalized in Australia
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19 May 1976 Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge
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19 May 1976 Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
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19 May 1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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19 May 1977 "Smokey & the Bandit, " premieres
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19 May 1977 "Smokey & the Bandit" premieres
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19 May 1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3
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19 May 1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3
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19 May 1979 105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2
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19 May 1979 Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
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19 May 1980 "Blackstone" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 104 performances
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19 May 1980 Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash
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19 May 1981 Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires the next 27 batters
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19 May 1982 IFK G
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19 May 1982 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion
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19 May 1983 NASA launches Intelsat V
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19 May 1983 Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington DC
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19 May 1984 "King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62
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19 May 1984 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat the New York Islanders, 4 games to 1
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19 May 1984 Michael Larson, a contestant on the television game show Press Your Luck exploits a bug in the prize board, and wins over US$110,000.
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19 May 1984 110th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6
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19 May 1984 Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 seconds in an NHL playoff game
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19 May 1984 STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad
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19 May 1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
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19 May 1986 The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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19 May 1986 Anti-apartheid activist H
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19 May 1987 1st American Comedy Award
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19 May 1988 "Red Sox" retire Bobby Doerr's #1
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19 May 1988 Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medell
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19 May 1989 Dow Jones average passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
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19 May 1989 Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
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19 May 1990 "General Elvis", TV Drama last airs on ABC
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19 May 1990 116th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6
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19 May 1991 "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" closes at Shubert NYC after 225 performances
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19 May 1991 Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
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19 May 1991 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
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19 May 1991 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
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19 May 1991 Willy T Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500
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19 May 1992 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary
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19 May 1992 Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa Long Island New York
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19 May 1992 Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches
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19 May 1992 Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title
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19 May 1992 Vice President Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values
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19 May 1993 Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medell
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19 May 1993 Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03)
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19 May 1993 Juventus wins 22th UEFA Cup at Torino
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19 May 1994 Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run
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19 May 1994 Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack
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19 May 1994 Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center
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19 May 1995 Emmy's 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time
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19 May 1995 World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai
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19 May 1996 STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit
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19 May 1997 The Sierra Gorda biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts.
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19 May 2007 President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension.
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19 May 2010 The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.
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19 May 2012 A explodes in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing 1 and injuring 5 others.
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19 May 2012 A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing 9 people.
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19 May 2161 Syzygy: 8 of 9 planets aligned on same side of sun
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