Today in History - History - May 19th

201321st Billboard Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Red win

197527th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake & Jean Marsh win

1962Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431

1984Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game

1963Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open

1568English Queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary

1980Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash

1828U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828/Tariff of Abominations into law to protect industry in the North

1991Pat Bradley wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic

1885German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon & Togoland

1945Peter Townshend, England, rock guitarist/vocalist/composer (The Who-Tommy)

1928Dolph Schayes, New York City New York, American basketball Hall of Famer (Syracuse Nationals/Philadelphia 76ers)

1946André the Giant, French professional wrestler (d. 1993)

1918Florence Chadwick, San Diego, swimmer (1st to swim English Channel both ways), (d. 1995)

1890Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Nghệ An Province, French Indochina, Vetnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69)

1942Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M

2012Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (28) weds his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan at a small ceremony in Palo Alto, California

1908Prime Minister of Canada Louis St. Laurent (26) weds Jeanne Renault

1997Film and stage actor Matthew Broderick (50) weds Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker (47) in New York

1880Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (29) weds Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne (40) in San Francisco

1864Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (Scarlet Letter), dies at 59

1898William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)