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May 19 Events in History - May 19 Birthdays - May 19 Deaths
May 19, 2005 Revenge of the Sith (Star Wars III) is released
May 19, 1996 STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit
May 19, 1995 Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time
May 19, 1995 World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai
May 19, 1994 Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run
May 19, 1994 Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack
May 19, 1994 Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center
May 19, 1993 Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132
May 19, 1993 Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03)
May 19, 1993 Juventus wins 22th UEFA Cup at Torino
May 19, 1992 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary
May 19, 1992 Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa LI
May 19, 1992 Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches
May 19, 1992 Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title
May 19, 1992 Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values
May 19, 1991 "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" closes at Shubert New York City after 225 performances
May 19, 1991 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
May 19, 1991 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
May 19, 1991 Willy T. Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500
May 19, 1990 116th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6
May 19, 1990 General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC
May 19, 1989 Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
May 19, 1989 Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
May 19, 1988 Red Sox retire Bobby Doerr's #1
May 19, 1988 Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US
May 19, 1987 1st American Comedy Award
May 19, 1986 Anti-apartheid activist Helene Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa
May 19, 1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
May 19, 1984 "King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62
May 19, 1984 110th Preakness: Angel Cordero, Jr. aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6
May 19, 1984 STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad
May 19, 1984 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat New York Islanders, 4 games to 1
May 19, 1984 Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game
May 19, 1983 NASA launches Intelsat V
May 19, 1983 Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington D.C.
May 19, 1982 IFK Goteborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at Goteborg
May 19, 1982 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion
May 19, 1981 Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters
May 19, 1980 "Blackstone" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 104 performances
May 19, 1980 Ringo and Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash
May 19, 1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3
May 19, 1979 105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2
May 19, 1979 Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
May 19, 1977 "Smokey and the Bandit," premieres
May 19, 1976 Gold ownership legalized in Australia
May 19, 1976 Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge
May 19, 1976 Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
May 19, 1976 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
May 19, 1975 27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake and Jean Marsh
May 19, 1975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India
May 19, 1975 Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest
May 19, 1974 Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass
May 19, 1974 Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
May 19, 1974 Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election
May 19, 1973 "Daisy" A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14
May 19, 1973 "Smith" opens at Eden Theater New York City for 17 performances
May 19, 1973 99th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4
May 19, 1972 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 19, 1972 WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
May 19, 1971 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
May 19, 1968 20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible and Barbara Bain
May 19, 1968 Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games
May 19, 1967 U.S. bombs Hanoi
May 19, 1967 U.S.S.R. ratifies treaty with Engl and U.S. banning nuclear weapons in space
May 19, 1965 Patricia R. Harris named 1st U.S. black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
May 19, 1965 West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II
May 19, 1964 U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy
May 19, 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
May 19, 1962 "Bravo, Giovanni" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 76 performances
May 19, 1962 "John Birch Society," by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99
May 19, 1962 88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2
May 19, 1962 Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea
May 19, 1962 Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431
May 19, 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
May 19, 1961 New pier opens in Scheveningen
May 19, 1960 Alan Freed and eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola
May 19, 1960 Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
May 19, 1960 Juan Marichal debuts as San Francisco Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
May 19, 1960 USAF Maj Robert M. White takes X-15 to 33,222 m
May 19, 1959 Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
May 19, 1958 Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party," in London
May 19, 1958 South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks
May 19, 1958 U.S. and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
May 19, 1957 Adone Zoli forms Italian government
May 19, 1956 82nd Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4
May 19, 1956 Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning HR, 1st HR in 8 straight games
May 19, 1955 Atkinson and Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt WI vs. Australia
May 19, 1954 Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project
May 19, 1953 Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St. George, Utah)
May 19, 1951 77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4
May 19, 1951 U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea
May 19, 1950 New York Times reports of worlds smallest and dumbest mechanical brain
May 19, 1946 Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam
May 19, 1945 Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England and Aust Services
May 19, 1944 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork, Netherlands
May 19, 1944 German defense line in Italy collapsed
May 19, 1943 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
May 19, 1943 Churchill pledges England's full support to U.S. against Japan
May 19, 1942 Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson and Wagner)
May 19, 1941 Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis
May 19, 1941 New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
May 19, 1940 Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)
May 19, 1940 French counter attack at Peronne under Gen De Gaulle
May 19, 1939 Churchill signs British-Russian anti-nazi pact
May 19, 1937 John Murray/Allen Boretz' "Room Service," premieres in New York City
May 19, 1935 NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936
May 19, 1934 Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria
May 19, 1934 Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars
May 19, 1931 Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel
May 19, 1930 White woman win voting rights in South-Africa
May 19, 1929 Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
May 19, 1929 General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government
May 19, 1928 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pennsylvania coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
May 19, 1928 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal)
May 19, 1928 Explosion in coal mine in Mather, Pennsylvania, 195 die
May 19, 1926 French air force bombs Damascus, Syria
May 19, 1923 49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4
May 19, 1923 KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies
May 19, 1921 Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
May 19, 1918 Washington 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings
May 19, 1916 Escadrille Americaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun
May 19, 1913 Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japs from owning land
May 19, 1912 AL President Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball
May 19, 1911 Maurice Ravels opera "L'Heure Espagnole," premieres in Paris
May 19, 1911 Philadelphia Athletics are 12 games back in AL, and will win World Series
May 19, 1910 Cleveland Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Washington 5-4 in 11 innings
May 19, 1909 Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title
May 19, 1906 Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
May 19, 1906 Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
May 19, 1906 Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier
May 19, 1905 Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ
May 19, 1902 Great Britain and Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria
May 19, 1900 Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago
May 19, 1900 World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy and Switzerland, opens
May 19, 1898 Post Office authorizes use of postcards
May 19, 1896 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands
May 19, 1893 Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
May 19, 1892 Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer
May 19, 1892 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
May 19, 1891 Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered
May 19, 1886 Camille Saint-Saens' 3rd Symphony in C, premieres
May 19, 1885 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts)
May 19, 1885 German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland
May 19, 1885 Jan Matzeliger begins 1st mass production of shoes
May 19, 1884 Ringling Brothers circus premieres
May 19, 1878 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield
May 19, 1865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia
May 19, 1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction, Virginia (Bermuda Hundred)
May 19, 1864 Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania
May 19, 1864 Skirmish at Cassville Georgia
May 19, 1863 Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete
May 19, 1862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
May 19, 1857 William Francis Channing and Moses G Farmer patents electric fire alarm
May 19, 1856 Sen Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, spoke out against slavery
May 19, 1853 Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar
May 19, 1848 1st department store opens
May 19, 1848 Mexico gives Texas to U.S., ending the war
May 19, 1802 French Order of Legion d'Honneur forms
May 19, 1796 Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds
May 19, 1793 Netherlands captures French island of St. Maarten (held until 1795)
May 19, 1792 Russian army enters Poland
May 19, 1780 About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day it's cause is still unexplained
May 19, 1749 George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
May 19, 1662 Uniformity Act of England goes into effect
May 19, 1652 Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen
May 19, 1643 Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army
May 19, 1643 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form United Colonies of New England
May 19, 1635 France declares war on Spain
May 19, 1608 Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague
May 19, 1588 Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England
May 19, 1585 Spain confisquates English ships
May 19, 1571 Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines
May 19, 1568 English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary
May 19, 1547 Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel
May 19, 1517 Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht
May 19, 1515 George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles
May 19, 1506 Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir
May 19, 715 St. Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope



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