May 19

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on May 19. From 1900 until now. May 19 is under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Sophie Davant (1963), Malcolm X (1925) and Andrea Pirlo (1979). Several movies were released around May 19 over the years, such as Cinderella Man in 2005 directed by Ron Howard and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold in 1965 directed by Martin Ritt.
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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 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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Famous Birthday

Sophie Davant: French journalist and TV host.
Malcolm X: American activist who came from humble...
Andrea Pirlo: Italian footballer.
Grace Jones: Pop Singer.
Sam Smith (singer)
André the Giant
Pete Townshend: British musician, founding member of...
Nicole Brown Simpson
Pol Pot: Cambodian politician, a dictator...
Anne Goscinny
Drew Fuller: American actor and model.
David Helfgott: Australian musician, concert pianist and...
Natalia Oreiro: Uruguayan singer-songwriter and actress.
Rebecca Hall: English-American actress.
Fernand Raynaud: French stand-up comic star, an actor and...
Nathuram Godse: Indian homicide; the assassin of Mahatma...
Nora Ephron: American filmmaker, director, producer,...
Kevin Garnett: NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves).
Daniel Gélin: French actor and director, a writer and...
French presidential election 1974
Georges St-Pierre: MMA Fighter.
Imhotep (hip-hop)
Emma Shapplin: French soprano.
Phil Rudd: Australian-New Zealand drummer (AC/DC...
Bérénice Marlohe: French actress.
Ilse de Meulemeester
Michel Noir: French executive, commercial director...
Jon Kortajarena: Model.
Peter Mayhew: British-American actor.
Polly Walker: English actress.
Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot
Ariel Wizman
Heinz Weixelbraun
Swami Kriyananda: American writer, composer, playwright,...
Hugues Obry: French fencer, who won a gold medal in...
Jean-Michel Lambert: French jurist, the examining magistrate...
Alexia (Italian singer)
Dora Doll
Loïc Pochet
Brittani Kline
Nicolas Figère: French hammer thrower, whose personal...
Léonard Vasco
Jean-Pierre Haigneré: French Air Force officer and a former...
Joey Ramone: Rock Singer.
Lorraine Hansberry: American playwright, the author of "A...
Eleanor Tomlinson: Movie Actress.
Lucy Pond: American astrologer, metaphysician and...
James Fox: London, England -- Actor (Greystoke).
Dusty Hill: American singer-songwriter and bass...
Kyle Eastwood: American actor singer and bass player.
Robert Gaïa
Nancy Kwan: Hong Kong-American actress and makeup...
Frank Lorenzo: American entrepreneur who made millions...
Michele Placido: Foggia, Italy -- Actor (La Lupa,...
Camille Darsières
Laurie Lynd: Canadian film and television director,...
Thomas Vinterberg
Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
Nicholas Winton: British humanitarian and...
Claude Buffet: French kidnapper and sex murderer.
Nathalie Nattier
Amanda de Cadenet
Jesse Peretz: American film maker, seen in the...
Jane Brody: American writer and columnist, a general...
Inna Modja: Malian-French singer.
Bill Laimbeer: NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers,...
Iain Harvie: Scottish rock guitarist (Nothing Ever...
Carol Saline
Patrice Blanc-Francart
Steve Ford
Guy Provost: French Canadian actor (d. 2004).
Didier Marie
Antonija Misura
Francis Scobee: American astronaut, a former USAF pilot...
Bela Czuppon
Jan Janssen: Dutch cyclist racer (1962-73), he won...
Pat Roach: English wrestler and actor (d. 2004).
Jenny Berggren: Swedish singer-songwriter (Ace of Base).
Jocelyne Taillon: French singer, a concert and opera...
Christelle Gros
Bruno Bézard
Raymond Bernard: French occultist.
Tunisiano
Christopher Chope: English lawyer and politician.
Bill Daniel
Roger Degueldre: French soldier, who became a leader of...
Cecilia Bolocco: Chilean model and television host Miss...
Robert Calmejane
Lucien-Philippe Moretti
Rosine Luguet
Natalie Kingston
Max Ferdinand Perutz
Annick Morice
Tony Doyle (cyclist)
Alain Bignon: French cartoonist, who illustrated...
Bill Fitch (basketball)
Isabella Ragonese
Didier Munduteguy
H Douglas Miller
Roger Vrigny: French writer.
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Famous Deaths

Ogden Nash: Poet / TV panelist (Masquerade Party),...
James Blades: British musician, a percussionist; and...
Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler: French composer, dies at 74.
Thomas E Lawrence (of Arabia): Dies in a motorcycle crash.
[Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll: Norwegian Author (Enken), dies at 69.
Aart A van Schelven: Church Historian (Willem of Orange),...
Charles Edward Ives: American composer (Unanswered Question),...
Bruno Sturmer: Composer, dies at 65.
Maria Dabrowska: Polish writer (Znaki Zycia).
Alice B[radley] Sheldon: Sci-fi Author (Byte Beautiful), dies at...
Virginia Farmer: Actresss (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at...
Rini Otte: Dutch actress (Ergens in Nederland),...
Richard Murphy: Director (3 Stripes in the Sun), dies of...
Henry Morgan: TV panalist (To Tell the Truth), dies of...
Jacques Cesar Ellul: Writer, dies at 82.
Margaret Rawlings: Actress (Roman Holiday), dies at 89.
Auguste Molinier: French historian (Born 1851).
Benjamin Baker: English engineer (Born 1840).
Boles?aw Prus: Polish writer (Born 1847).
Raoul Lufbery: French-American World War I fighter...
T E Lawrence: English soldier, known as Lawrence of...
CLR James: West Indian writer and journalist (Born...
Henry Corden: American actor and voice artist (Born...
Robert F Furchgott: American chemist, Nobel Laureate (Born...
Marthinus Wessels Pretorius first President Republic South Africa: dies at age 81.
Heinrich I Quincke German internist (postural drainage): dies at age 79.
Damasco Berenguer y Fuste: Spanish general/minister of War, dies at...
Joe Howard singer (Gay Nineties Revue): dies at age 94.
Bernard Wagenaar: Netherlands/US composer, dies at age 76.
Able J Herzberg: Russian/Netherlands lawyer (Adolf...
Nemesio Antunes: Chilean painter, dies at age 75.
Luis Ocana Span: cyclist (Tour de France 1973), commits...
Johnny "Guitar" Watson: musician, dies at age 61.
John Simpson Kirkpatrick: stretcher bearer with the Australian and...
Diego Mazquiaran: Spanish matador (Born 1895).
Archie Scott-Brown: English race car driver (Born 1927).
Tu'i Malila: the world's oldest tortoise (Born circa...
Li Tobler: Swiss actress (Born 1948).
Camoflauge: American rapper (Born 1981).
Vijay Tendulkar: Indian playwright (Born 1928).
Nicholas Maw: British composer (Born 1935).
Herbert York: American physicist (Born 1921).
Ronald Colman: British-American actor, a gentlemanly...
Mary Dresselhuys: Dutch stage/film actress.
Charles Ives: American modernist composer.
Susannah McCorkle: American jazz singer, prolific though...
Jean Rey: French military officer in World War II,...
Booth Tarkington: American writer, novelist and...
Walter Russell: American painter sculptor and author (d....
Max Scheler: German philosopher and author (d. 1928).
John Betjeman: English poet and Poet Laureate (Born...
Yevgeny Khrunov: Russian colonel and astronaut (d. 2000).
Philipp Bouhler: German Nazi leader (Born 1889).
Walter Lord: American historian and author (d. 2002).
Kristjan Raud: Estonian painter and illustrator (d....
Candy Candido: American singer bass player and voice...
Douglas L Mays: Cartoonist (Punch).
Susannah McCorkle: American jazz singer, prolific though...
Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert: Composer, dies at 59.
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