Notable Historical Events on May 19th
May 19th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
715 |
St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1506 |
Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir |
1515 |
George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles |
1517 |
Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht |
1547 |
Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel |
1568 |
English Queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary |
1571 |
Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines |
1585 |
Spain confisquates English ships |
1608 |
Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague |
1635 |
France declares war on Spain |
1643 |
Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army |
1643 |
Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut & New Harbor form United Colonies of New England |
1649 |
An Act declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years. |
1652 |
Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen |
1662 |
Uniformity Act of England goes into effect |
1749 |
George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley |
1780 |
About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England, only now known to be caused by forest fires in Canada |
1792 |
Russian army enters Poland |
1793 |
Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795) |
1796 |
Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds |
1802 |
French Order of Legion d'Honneur forms |
1828 |
U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828/Tariff of Abominations into law to protect industry in the North |
1848 |
1st department store opens |
1848 |
Mexico gives Texas to US, ending the war |
1856 |
Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, spoke out against slavery |
1857 |
William Francis Channing & Moses G Farmer patents electric fire alarm |
1862 |
US Homestead Act becomes law - provides cheap land for settlement of American West |
1863 |
Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete |
1864 |
Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA (Bermuda Hundred) |
1864 |
Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania |
1864 |
Skirmish at Cassville Georgia |
1865 |
President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia |
1878 |
Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield |
1884 |
Ringling Brothers circus premieres |
1885 |
1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts) |
1885 |
German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon & Togoland |
1886 |
Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Symphony in C premieres |
1891 |
Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered |
1892 |
Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer |
1892 |
National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded |
1893 |
Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway) |
1896 |
1st auto (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands |
1897 |
Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol. |
1898 |
Post Office authorizes use of postcards |
1900 |
Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago |
1900 |
World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy & Switz, opens |
1902 |
Great Britain & Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria |
1905 |
Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ |
1906 |
Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes |
1906 |
Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier |
1909 |
Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title |
1910 |
Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic |
1911 |
Maurice Ravel's opera "L'Heure Espagnole" premieres in Paris |
1911 |
Phila Athletics are 12½ games back in AL, & will win World Series |
1912 |
AL Pres Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball |
1913 |
Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japanese from owning land |
1916 |
Escadrille Américaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun |
1918 |
Wash 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings |
1919 |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what was later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is the official date of commemoration of the Pontic Greek Genocide in Greece and Cyprus. |
1921 |
Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system |
1923 |
49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4 |
1923 |
KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies |
1926 |
French air force bombs Damascus Syria |
1928 |
54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4 |
1928 |
"Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners |
1928 |
51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal) |
1929 |
Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death |
1929 |
General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government |
1930 |
White women win voting rights in South Africa |
1931 |
Cruiser Deutschland launched in Kiel |
1934 |
Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria |
1934 |
Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars |
1935 |
NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936 |
1937 |
John Murray/Allen Boretz's "Room Service" premieres in NYC |
1939 |
Churchill signs British-Russian anti-Nazi pact |
1940 |
Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time) |
1940 |
French counter attack at Pronne under Gen De Gaulle |
1941 |
Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis |
1941 |
New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland |
1942 |
Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson & Wagner) |
1943 |
Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews) |
1943 |
Churchill pledges Britain's full support to US against Japan |
1944 |
240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork, Netherlands |
1944 |
German defense line in Italy collapsed |
1945 |
Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England & Aust Services |
1946 |
Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam |
1950 |
NY Times reports of worlds smallest & dumbest mechanical brain |
1951 |
77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4 |
1951 |
UN begins counter offensive in Korea |
1953 |
Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George, Utah) |
1954 |
Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project |
1955 |
Atkinson & Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt WI v Australia |
1956 |
82nd Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4 |
1956 |
Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning HR, 1st HR in 8 straight games |
1957 |
Adone Zoli forms Italian government |
1958 |
Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party" in London |
1958 |
South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks |
1958 |
US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) |
1959 |
Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands |
1959 |
The USS Triton, the first submarine with two nuclear reactors, is completed |
1960 |
Alan Freed & eight other DJs accused of taking radio payola |
1960 |
Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed |
1960 |
Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter |
1960 |
USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m |
1961 |
New pier opens in Scheveningen |
1962 |
"Bravo, Giovanni" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances |
1962 |
"John Birch Society" by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99 |
1962 |
88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2 |
1962 |
Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea |
1962 |
Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431 |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) |
1963 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open |
1964 |
US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy |
1965 |
Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg) |
1965 |
West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II |
1967 |
US bombs Hanoi |
1967 |
USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US banning nuclear weapons in space |
1968 |
20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible & Barbara Bain win |
1968 |
Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games |
1968 |
Pirate Radio Brumble of Northern England 1st heard |
1971 |
USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars |
1972 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1972 |
WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1973 |
"Daisy" A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14 |
1973 |
"Smith" opens at Eden Theater NYC for 17 performances |
1973 |
99th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4 |
1974 |
Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass |
1974 |
Stanley Cup: Phila Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2 |
1974 |
Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election |
1975 |
27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake & Jean Marsh win |
1975 |
Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India |
1976 |
Gold ownership legalized in Australia |
1976 |
Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge |
1976 |
Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
1976 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1977 |
"Smokey & the Bandit," premieres |
1979 |
"In The Navy" by Village People hits #3 |
1979 |
105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2 |
1980 |
"Blackstone" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 104 performances |
1980 |
Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash |
1981 |
Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters |
1981 |
5 British Army soldiers are killed when their armoured vehicle is ripped apart by a Provisional Irish Republican Army roadside bomb near Bessbrook, County Armagh |
1982 |
IFK Göteborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at Göteborg |
1982 |
Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion |
1983 |
NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 506 |
1983 |
Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Wash DC |
1984 |
"King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62 |
1984 |
110th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6 |
1984 |
STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad |
1984 |
Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat NY Islanders, 4 games to 1 |
1984 |
Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game |
1985 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
1986 |
Anti-apartheid activist HClane Pastoors sentenced to 10 yrs in S Afr |
1987 |
1st American Comedy Award |
1988 |
Red Sox retire Bobby Doerr's #1 |
1988 |
Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US |
1989 |
Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1 |
1989 |
Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas |
1990 |
116th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6 |
1990 |
General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC |
1991 |
"Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" closes at Shubert NYC after 225 perfs |
1991 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic |
1991 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge |
1991 |
Willy T Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500 |
1992 |
27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary |
1992 |
Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa LI |
1992 |
Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches |
1992 |
Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title |
1992 |
US VP Dan Quayle attacks Murphy Brown for being a single mother and as a poor example of family values |
1993 |
Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132 |
1993 |
Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03) |
1993 |
Juventus wins 22th UEFA Cup at Torino |
1994 |
Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run |
1994 |
Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack |
1994 |
Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center |
1995 |
Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time |
1995 |
World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai |
1996 |
STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit |
2007 |
133rd Preakness: Robby Albarado aboard Curlin wins in 1:53.46 |
2009 |
Sri Lanka announces victory in its 27 year war against the terrorist organisation, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. |
2012 |
Chelsea defeat Bayern Munich in penalty shootout to win the UEFA Champion's League |
2012 |
138th Preakness: Mario Gutierrez aboard Ill Have Another wins in 1:55.94 |
2013 |
Sweden defeat Switzerland to win the 2013 World Ice Hockey Championship |
2013 |
21st Billboard Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Red win |
2016 |
Donald Trump Releases List of Possible Supreme Court Picks |
2016 |
EgyptAir says flight from Paris to Cairo missing with 66 on board |
2016 |
Trump pulls ahead of Clinton in new national poll |
2016 |
First missing Chibok girl found |
2018 |
Teen gunman attacks Texas high school art class, kills 10 |
2161 |
Syzygy: 8 of 9 planets aligned on same side of sun |
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