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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