May 19

Holidays

• National Hug-Your-Cat Day
• NASCAR Day USA.(2006)
• Commemoration of Pontian Greeks Genocide in Greece.
• Commemoration of Atatnrk, Youth and Sports Day in Turkey (1919).
• Theophilus of Corte
• Pudentiana
• Emiliana
• Ives
• Peter Celestine
• Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Dunstan
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Events

• 2019 An explosion hits a tourist bus carrying South African nationals near the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, injuring at least 14 people. (CNN)
• 2018 Russian military intervention in Ukraine: Ukraine's Joint Forces Operation says Russian-led militants have mounted 43 attacks on Ukrainian troops in Donbas in the past 24 hours, using artillery systems and 120mm and 82mm mortars 10 times, with no casualties among the Ukrainian servicemen. According to intelligence data, two militants are killed and three others wounded. (UNIAN)
• 2017 War in Afghanistan: A roadside bomb kills at least 11 people, all from the same family, in Logar Province. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
• 2016 Syrian civil war: Syrian government forces and allies, including Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, retake a large area southeast of Damascus, including the key town of Deir al-Asafir. (BBC) (Al Arabiya)Fighting between Jaysh al-Islam and rival factions led by al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front in Ghouta, near Damascus, leaves more than 50 people dead. (Swiss Info) (Ara News)
• 2015 Syrian Civil War: The Russian embassy in Damascus is shelled. (RT)
• 2014 Two Chinese workers are kidnapped from a controversial copper mine in Burma by activists. (AP)
• 2013 Syrian civil war:: Heavy fighting is reported in Qusair, Syria, as the Syrian army launches a major counter-offensive against rebel forces. (BBC)
• 2012 A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing 9 people. (Al Jazeera)
• 2011 Syria condemns the decision by the United States to impose sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad in response to ongoing anti-government protests. (Al Jazeera)
• 2010 The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.
• 2009 The United States Government Accountability Office warns that the Global Positioning System could fail by 2010. (''Guardian'')
• 2008 Suspected Sunni insurgents attack a minibus carrying police recruits near the border of Iraq and Syria killing 11 people. (AP via Google News)
• 2007 Three people are killed and two wounded in a sniper attack in Moscow, Idaho, United States. (BBC)
• 2006 2006 Iranian sumptuary law controversy:
• 2005 Scientists discover that the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was the longest ever recorded — lasting nearly ten minutes when most powerful earthquakes last no more than a few seconds — and shook the entire planet. (CNN)
• 2004 Citing "insufficient evidence", US Federal Judge Adalberto Jordan acquits environmental group Greenpeace on charges under the "sailormongering" statute. A record total of more than 100,000 people worldwide sent protest messages to George W. Bush and US Attorney General John Ashcroft demanding that the case be dropped. (Greenpeace) (OneWorld.net) (BBC)
• 2003 White House spokesman Ari Fleischer announces he will resign from his job in the summer, citing his desire to see his new wife more and to work in the private sector as reasons for his decision.
• 2002 Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A suicide bomber disguised as an Israeli soldier kills at least two Israelis and wounds more than 50 in Netanya.
• 2001 First Apple Store opens.
• 1999 ''Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace'' is released in theaters. It becomes the highest grossing ''Star Wars'' film.
• 1998 The US aircraft Yorktown is located by searchers, three miles below the ocean surface, where she sank on June 7, 1942.
• 1997 Millie, dog of President Bush, dies at age 12.
• 1996 STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit
• 1995 Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time
• 1994 Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run
• 1993 Juventus wins 22th UEFA Cup at Torino.
• 1992 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary
• 1991 Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story closes at Shubert NYC after 225 performances
• 1990 General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC
• 1989 Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
• 1988 Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medell?n drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than three tons of cocaine into US.
• 1987 1st American Comedy Award
• 1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic.
• 1984 King Of Suede by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62
• 1983 Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington DC
• 1982 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion
• 1980 Blackstone opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 104 performances
• 1979 In The Navy by Village People hits #3
• 1978 May 20 ampndash French Foreign Legion paratroopers land in Kolwezi, Zaire, to rescue Europeans in the middle of a civil war.
• 1977 Smokey & the Bandit, premieres
• 1976 Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge.
• 1975 27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake and Jean Marsh
• 1974 Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass
• 1973 Daisy A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14
• 1972 WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1971 USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
• 1969 Coleman Hawkins, American jazz saxophonist (Born 1901)
• 1968 20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible and Barbara Bain
• 1967 US bombs Hanoi, Vietnam.
• 1966 Gertrude Baniszewski is found guilty of murdering and torturing Sylvia Likens and is sentenced to life in prison. (she is released on parole in December 1985).
• 1965 Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
• 1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in the Moscow embassy.
• 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open.
• 1962 Bravo, Giovanni opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
• 1961 New pier opens in Scheveningen
• 1960 DJ Alan Freed is accused of bribery in radio payola scandal
• 1959 Jan de Quay becomes Premier of the Netherlands
• 1958 South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks
• 1957 Adone Zoli forms Italian Government.
• 1956 Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning HR, 1st HR in 8 straight games
• 1955 Atkinson and Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt West Indies versus Australia.
• 1954 Postmaster General Summerfield approves US Central Intelligence Agency mail-opening project.
• 1953 Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in Saint George, Utah).
• 1951 77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4.
• 1950 New York Times reports of worlds smallest and dumbest mechanical brain
• 1946 Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam.
• 1944 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Netherlands.
• 1943 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan.
• 1942 Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson & Wagner)
• 1941 New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
• 1940 Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time).
• 1935 NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936.
• 1934 Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in Sat Review of Lit Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars
• 1931 Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel
• 1930 White woman win voting rights in South Africa.
• 1929 Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium, New York; two people crushed to death.
• 1928 Explosion in coal mine in Mather, Pennsylvania, 195 die
• 1926 French air force bombs Damascus, Syria.
• 1923 KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies.
• 1922 The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
• 1921 The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
• 1920 Mexican Revolution: Álvaro Obregón's troops enter Mexico City.
• 1919 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
• 1918 Washington's first Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings.
• 1913 Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japanese from owning land in USA.
• 1911 Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
• 1910 Cleveland Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Washington 5-4 in 11 innings.
• 1906 Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss President open Simplon tunnel
• 1905 Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champion.
• 1902 Great Britain and Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria.
• 1900 Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago.
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• Alexia (Italian singer)
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• Joey Ramone

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• Claude Buffet

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• Iain Harvie

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• Pat Roach

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• Jenny Berggren

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• Bruno Bézard
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• Christopher Chope

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• James Blades

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• Aart A van Schelven

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• Charles Edward Ives

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• Bruno Sturmer

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• Maria Dabrowska

  Polish writer (Znaki Zycia).

• Rini Otte

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• Jacques Cesar Ellul

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• Henry Morgan

  TV panalist (To Tell the Truth), dies of...

• Margaret Rawlings

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• Boles?aw Prus

  Polish writer (Born 1847).

• Marthinus Wessels Pretorius first President Republic South Africa

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• Heinrich I Quincke German internist (postural drainage)

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• Damasco Berenguer y Fuste

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• Joe Howard singer (Gay Nineties Revue)

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• Douglas L Mays

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• Camoflauge

  American rapper (Born 1981).

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2017 DJ Khaled Featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper & Lil Wayne - I'm The One
• 2016 Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla - One Dance
• 2015 Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again
• 2014 John Legend - All Of Me
• 2013 Macklemore - Can't Hold Us
• 2012 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Adele - Rolling In The Deep
• 2010 Eminem - Not Afraid
• 2009 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
• 2008 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
• 2007 Maroon5 - Makes Me Wonder
• 2006 Rihanna - SOS
• 2005 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 Sean Paul - Get Busy
• 2002 Ashanti - Foolish
• 2001 Janet - All For You
• 2000 Santana - Maria, Maria
• 1999 Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
• 1998 Next - Too Close
• 1997 The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
• 1996 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
• 1995 Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
• 1994 All-4-One - I Swear
• 1993 Janet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes
• 1992 Kris Kross - Jump
• 1991 Hi-Five - I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)
• 1990 Madonna - Vogue
• 1989 Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl
• 1988 Gloria Estefan - Anything For You
• 1987 U2 - With Or Without You
• 1986 Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All
• 1985 Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
• 1984 Lionel Richie - Hello
• 1983 David Bowie - Let's Dance
• 1982 Paul McCartney - Ebony And Ivory
• 1981 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
• 1980 Blondie - Call Me
• 1979 Peaches & Herb - Reunited
• 1978 Wings - With A Little Luck
• 1977 Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
• 1976 The Sylvers - Boogie Fever
• 1975 Tony Orlando and Dawn - He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)
• 1974 Ray Stevens - The Streak
• 1973 Stevie Wonder - You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
• 1972 Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
• 1971 Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
• 1970 The Guess Who - American Woman
• 1969 The 5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
• 1968 Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up
• 1967 The Young Rascals - Groovin'
• 1966 The Mamas & The Papas - Monday, Monday
• 1965 The Beatles - Ticket To Ride
• 1964 Mary Wells - My Guy
• 1963 Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy
• 1962 The Shirelles - Soldier Boy
• 1961 Del Shannon - Runaway
• 1960 Elvis Presley - Stuck On You
• 1959 Dave Baby Cortez - The Happy Organ
• 1958 David Seville - Witch Doctor
• 1957 Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 Imagine Dragons - Believer
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
• 2012 Gotye Featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Stone Temple Pilots - Between The Lines