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May 19: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

May 19th marks the 139th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 140th in case of leap years). There are 226 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Sophie Davant (1963), Malcolm X (1925) and Andrea Pirlo (1979).
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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 A bus transporting South African nationals was struck by an explosion near Giza's Grand Egyptian Museum, Egypt. At least 14 people were injured.
2018 Russian military intervention in Ukraine: Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation reports that Russian-led militants attacked Ukrainian troops in Donbas 43 times in the last 24 hours. They used artillery systems, 120mm mortars, and 82mm mortars ten times each, but there were no casualties among Ukrainian servicemen. Two militants have been killed and three more are injured, according to intelligence data.
2017 War in Afghanistan: At least 11 people are killed by a roadside bomb in Logar Province.
2016 Syrian civil war: Syrian government forces, along with Lebanese Hezbollah soldiers, retake large areas southeast of Damascus. This includes the important town of Deir al-Asafir. (BBC). (Al Arabiya). More than 50 people have been killed in fighting between Jaysh al-Islam's rival factions and al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front of Ghouta near Damascus.
2015 Syrian Civil War: The Russian Embassy in Damascus has been shelled.
2014 Two Chinese workers were kidnapped in Burma from a controversial copper mine by activists
2013 Syrian civil war: Heavy fighting reported in Qusair (Syria) as the Syrian army launches major counter-offensive to rebel forces.
2012 9 people were killed when a car bomb explodes in front of a military base in Deir ez-Zor.
2011 Syria condemns the United States' decision to impose sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad as a response to continuing anti-government protests.
2010 The Royal Thai Armed Forces ends its crackdown against protests by ordering the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.
2009 The United States Government Accountability Office warns against the possibility of the Global Positioning System failing by 2010.
2008 11 people were killed when Sunni insurgents attacked a minibus transporting police recruits close to the border of Syria and Iraq.
2007 In a sniper attack, three people were killed and two others were injured in Moscow, Idaho, United States.
2006 The 2006 Iranian sumptuary Law controversy
2005 Scientists have discovered that the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was the longest recorded. It lasted almost ten minutes, whereas most powerful earthquakes only last a few seconds. This earthquake shook the entire globe.
2004 US Federal Judge Adalberto Jordan exonerated Greenpeace from charges under the "sailormongering” statute, citing "insufficient evidence". More than 100,000 protesters worldwide demanded that the case be dropped.
2003 Ari Fleischer, White House spokesperson, announces that he will be stepping down in the summer. He cited his desire to spend more time with his wife and to work in private industry as reasons.
2002 Conflict between Israel and Palestine: At least two Israeli soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber who pretends to be an Israeli soldier. More than 50 people are injured 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
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
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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Music charts

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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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