may 19

May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). There are 226 days remaining.

Events

upto 19th century

1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with 3 ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's 2 sons (who Cartier kidnapped during his first voyage).
1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England is beheaded for adultery.
1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England arrests Mary Queen of Scots.
1643 - Battle of Rocroi: French victory over the Spanish at Rocroi, France.
1649 - An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament.
1749 - King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
1780 - Never-explained complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England area of America at 2 pm.
1802 - The Lgion d'Honneur is founded by Napoleon Bonaparte.
1828 - U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
1848 - Mexican-American War: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Mexico ratifies the treaty thus ending the war and ceding Texas, California and most of Arizona and New Mexico to the United States for $15 million dollars.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.

20th century

1919 - In Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatrk moves to Samsun from Istanbul with a few followers, to oppose the Ottoman government, which eventually leads to the Turkish War of Independence.
1921 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress establishing national quotas on immigration.
1922 - Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union created.
1932 - The gangster film opens at the Rialto Theater in Los Angeles, California.
1943 - World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the cross-English Channel landing (D-Day would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather).
1961 - Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back data).
1962 - A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's infamous rendition of Happy Birthday. Thirty-four years later, John F. Kennedy, Jr. had actress Drew Barrymore pose as Monroe for the cover of George magazine with the heading "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" in honor of then-President Bill Clinton turning 50.
1964 - Vietnam War: The United States Air Force begins Operation Yankee Team.
1965 - Tui Malila, the oldest living tortoise or living creature ever, dies in Tonga at the age of either 188 or 192.
1971 - Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
1991 - Willy T. Ribbs becomes the first African-American driver to qualify for the

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1998 - In Fayetteville, Tennessee, three days before graduation, 18-year-old honor student Jacob Davis allegedly confronts, then shoots dead 18-year-old Nick Creson in the parking lot of his school. This is the latest in a rash of so-called school massacres which took place in the United States during the 1990s
1999 - is released in movie theaters across the United States, setting a new record for opening-day box-office sales at $28.5 million.