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, 476,688 hours 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
- 1499 –Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
- 1536 –Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
- 1643 –Thirty Years’ War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
- 1780 –New England’s Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
- 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.
- 1921 –The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
- 1922 –The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
- 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 any data).
Who were born on May 19?
- 1762 –Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1814)
- 1890 –Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969)
- 1910 –Alan Melville, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1948, (d. 1983)
- 1914 –Max Perutz, Austrian-born British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
- 1925 –Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
- 1951 –Joey Ramone, American vocalist and songwriter (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
- 1964 –Sean Whalen, American actor
- 1965 –Boris, French singer
- 1975 –Delma Gonçalves, Brazilian footballer
- 1987 –David Edgar, Canadian footballer
Who died on May 19?
- 1125 –Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
- 1526 –Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
- 1825 –Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
- 1865 –Sengge Rinchen, Mongol Qing Dynasty field marshal (b. 1811)
- 1898 –William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
- 1912 –Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)
- 1918 –Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
- 1971 –Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
- 1986 –Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b. 1931)
- 2009 –Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
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