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Events from History on May 19

1506 : Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir
1515 : George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders
1515 : to arch duke Charles
1517 : Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht
1547 : Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel
1568 : English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary
1571 : Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines
1585 : Spain confisquates English ships
1588 : Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England
1608 : Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague
1635 : France declares war on Spain
1643 : Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army
1643 : Colonies of New England
1643 : Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut & New Harbor form United
1652 : Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen
1662 : Uniformity Act of England goes into effect
1749 : George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
1780 : About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England
1780 : to this day it's cause is still unexplained
1792 : Russian army enters Poland
1793 : Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)
1796 : Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds
1802 : French Order of L‚gion d'Honneur forms
1848 : 1st department store opens
1848 : Mexico gives Texas to US, ending the war
1853 : Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar
1856 : Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, spoke out against slavery
1857 : William Francis Channing & Moses G Farmer patents electric fire alarm
1862 : Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
1863 : Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete
1864 : Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA (Bermuda Hundred)
1864 : Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania
1864 : Skirmish at Cassville Georgia
1865 : President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia
1878 : Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by Pres Garfield
1884 : Ringling Brothers circus premieres
1885 : 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts)
1885 : German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon & Togoland
1885 : Jan Matzeliger begins 1st mass production of shoes
1886 : Camille Saint-Sa‰ns' 3rd Symphony in C, premieres
1891 : Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered
1892 : Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer
1892 : National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
1893 : Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
1896 : 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands
1898 : Post Office authorizes use of postcards
1900 : Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago
1900 : World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy & Switz, opens
1902 : Great Britain & Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria
1905 : Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ
1906 : Dutch King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
1906 : Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
1906 : Italian King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
1906 : Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier
1909 : Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title
1910 : Cleve Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Wash 5-4 in 11 innings
1911 : Maurice Ravels opera "L'Heure Espagnole," premieres in Paris
1912 : AL Pres Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's
1912 : suspension, they will be banned from baseball
1913 : Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japs from owning land
1916 : Escadrille Am‚ricaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun
1921 : Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
1923 : KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies
1926 : French air force bombs Damascus Syria
1928 : "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
1928 : 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal)
1928 : Explosion in coal mine in Mather, Pennsylvania, 195 die
1929 : Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
1929 : General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek govt
1930 : White woman win voting rights in South-Africa
1931 : Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel
1934 : Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria
1934 : Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who
1934 : solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars
1937 : John Murray/Allen Boretz' "Room Service," premieres in NYC
1939 : Churchill signs British-Russian anti-nazi pact
1940 : Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)
1940 : French counter attack at P‚ronne under Gen De Gaulle
1941 : Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis
1941 : New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
1942 : Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson & Wagner)
1943 : Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
1943 : Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan
1944 : 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Neth
1944 : German defense line in Italy collapsed
1945 : Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England & Aust Services
1946 : Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam
1950 : NY Times reports of worlds smallest & dumbest mechanical brain
1951 : UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1953 : Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George, Utah)
1954 : Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project
1955 : Atkinson & Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt WI v Australia
1957 : Adone Zoli forms Italian govt
1958 : Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party," in London
1958 : US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1959 : Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
1960 : Alan Freed & eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola
1960 : Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
1960 : DJ Alan Freed is accused of bribery in radio payola scandal
1960 : Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
1960 : USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m
1961 : New pier opens in Scheveningen
1962 : "Bravo, Giovanni" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
1962 : Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea
1962 : Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431
1962 : US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1964 : US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy
1965 : Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
1967 : US bombs Hanoi
1967 : USSR ratifies treaty with Engl & US banning nuclear weapons in space
1968 : 20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible & Barbara Bain
1968 : Pirate Radio Brumble of Northern England 1st heard
1971 : USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1972 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 : WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 : "Smith" opens at Eden Theater NYC for 17 performances
1975 : 27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake & Jean Marsh
1975 : Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66
1975 : Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest
1975 : in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India
1976 : Gold ownership legalized in Australia
1976 : Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1976 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 : "Smokey & the Bandit," premieres
1979 : Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
1980 : "Blackstone" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 104 performances
1980 : Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash
1981 : Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper,
1981 : then retires next 27 batters
1982 : Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion
1983 : NASA launches Intelsat V
1983 : Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Wash DC
1984 : STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 : Anti-apartheid activist H‚lŠne Pastoors sentenced to 10 yrs in S Afr
1987 : 1st American Comedy Award
1988 : Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted
1988 : E F Helin discover asteroid 3876 Quaide, 4224 Susa, 5255 & 5811 Keck
1988 : in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US
1989 : Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
1989 : Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
1990 : General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC
1991 : "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" closes at Shubert NYC after 225 perfs
1991 : Willy T Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500
1992 : 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary
1992 : Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa LI
1992 : Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches
1992 : VP Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values
1993 : Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medell¡n Colombia, kills 132
1993 : Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03)
1994 : Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run
1994 : Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack
1994 : Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center
1995 : Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time
1995 : World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai
1996 : STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit
2161 : Syzygy: 8 of 9 planets aligned on same side of sun

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