What happened this day in history May 19

What are the important events that happened on May 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

May 19: Facts & Myths About This Day

May 19 is the 140th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 226 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 6, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,716,076,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatetracontagon’ day.

Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 255 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,167 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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May 19 Historical Events

  • 1535
    French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona’s two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
  • 1776
    American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
  • 1828
    U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
  • 1864
    American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
  • 1911
    Parks Canada, the world’s first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
  • 1921
    The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
  • 1934
    Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
  • 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 Normandy landings (“D-Day”). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.
  • 1997
    The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts.
  • 2007
    President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension.

Who were born on May 19?

  • 1921
    Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
  • 1925
    Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
  • 1944
    Peter Mayhew, British-American actor
  • 1947
    Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
  • 1951
    Joey Ramone, American vocalist and songwriter (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
  • 1953
    Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian finswimmer
  • 1966
    Sophia Crawford, English actress and martial artist
  • 1973
    Dario Franchitti, Scottish race car driver
  • 1978
    Kim Zolciak, American reality show star and singer
  • 1980
    Drew Fuller, American actor and model

Who died on May 19?

  • 804
    Alcuin, English monk and scholar (b. c.735)
  • 1319
    Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)
  • 1601
    Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (b. 1528 or 1529)
  • 1825
    Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
  • 1969
    Coleman Hawkins, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1901)
  • 1994
    Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States 1961-1963 (b. 1929)
  • 1999
    Candy Candido, American actor (b. 1913)
  • 2000
    Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)
  • 2001
    Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
  • 2009
    Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1916)

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