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

Events

• 1499 – Catherine of Aragon, is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
• 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).
• 1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
• 1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary Queen of Scots.
• 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.
• 1649 – An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
• 1749 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
• 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.
• 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Légion d'Honneur.
• 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: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for $15 million USD.
• 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
• 1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
• 1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is also regarded as a date of remembrance for Pontic Greeks.
• 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.
• 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). It 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 any data).
• 1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of Happy Birthday.
• 1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
• 1991 – Croatians vote for independence at their independence referendum.
• 2009 – Sri Lanka announces victory in its 27 year war against the terrorist organisation, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Births

• 1593 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
• 1700 – José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)
• 1724 – Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)
• 1744 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
• 1762 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1814)
• 1773 – Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
• 1795 – Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873)
• 1797 – Maria Isabel of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1818)
• 1827 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
• 1861 – Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
• 1862 – Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (d. 1942)
• 1870 – Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936)
• 1871 – Walter Russell, American polymath (d. 1963)
• 1874 – Gilbert Laird Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955)
• 1879 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born politician (d. 1964)
• 1880 – Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (d. 1964)
• 1881 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938)
• 1882 – Mohammed Mosaddeq, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
• 1890 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969)
• 1891 – Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916)
• 1897 – Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
• 1898 – Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974)
• 1906 – Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
• 1908 – Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Merriam Modell, American author (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Nicholas Winton, British Humanitarian
• 1910 – Alan Melville, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1948, (d. 1983)
• 1910 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1949)
• 1914 – Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)
• 1914 – Go Seigen, Japanese Go player
• 1914 – Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1918 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000)
• 1919 – Mitja Ribičič, Slovenian Communist politician, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
• 1921 – Yuri Kochiyama, American civil rights activist
• 1921 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Daniel Gélin, French actor (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Joe Gilmore, Irish, longest running Head Barmen at The Savoy Hotel's American Bar.
• 1924 – Sandy Wilson, British composer
• 1925 – Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
• 1925 – Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
• 1925 – Guy Provost, French Canadian actor (d. 2004)
• 1926 – Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author
• 1926 – Peter Zadek, German theatre director (d. 2009)
• 1928 – Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
• 1928 – Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach
• 1929 – John Stroger Chicago politician
• 1930 – Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d. 1965)
• 1931 – Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor
• 1931 – Bob Anderson, British racing driver (d. 1967)
• 1932 – Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
• 1932 – Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Claude Blanchard, French Canadian comedian and actor (d. 2006)
• 1934 – Jim Lehrer, American television journalist
• 1934 – Ruskin Bond, Indian author
• 1934 – Bill Fitch, American basketball head coach
• 1935 – David Hartman, American actor and television personality
• 1937 – Pat Roach, English actor and wrestler (d. 2004)
• 1938 – Madge Hindle, English actress
• 1938 – Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader (d. 1989)
• 1939 – Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
• 1939 – James Fox, English actor
• 1939 – Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong actress
• 1939 – Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
• 1940 – Mickey Newbury, American musician (d. 2002)
• 1940 – Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
• 1941 – Nora Ephron, American screenwriter
• 1942 – Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (d. 1994)
• 1942 – Robert Kilroy-Silk, British politician and television presenter
• 1944 – Peter Mayhew, British-American actor
• 1945 – Pete Townshend, English musician (The Who)
• 1946 – André the Giant, French professional wrestler (d. 1993)
• 1946 – Claude Lelièvre, Belgian commissioner for children's rights
• 1947 – Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
• 1947 – Paul Brady, Northern Ireland singer/songwriter
• 1947 – David Helfgott, Australian pianist
• 1948 – Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
• 1949 – Dusty Hill, American singer and bassist (ZZ Top)
• 1949 – Archie Manning, American football player
• 1951 – Joey Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
• 1951 – Dick Slater, American professional wrestler
• 1952 – Bert van Marwijk, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1953 – Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian finswimmer
• 1953 – Dawud M. Mu'Min, American convicted murderer (d. 1997)
• 1953 – Victoria Wood, English comedian and actress
• 1954 – Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC)
• 1955 – James Gosling, Canadian computer programmer
• 1956 – Steven Ford, American actor
• 1957 – Bill Laimbeer, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim. (d. 1994)
• 1961 – Gregory Poirier, American screenwriter and director
• 1963 – Filippo Galli, Italian footballer
• 1963 – Yazz, English singer
• 1964 – Miloslav Mečíř, Slovakian tennis player
• 1964 – Sean Whalen, American actor
• 1965 – Boris, French singer
• 1965 – Maile Flanagan, American actress
• 1966 – Marc Bureau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 – Sophia Crawford, English actress and martial artist
• 1966 – Jodi Picoult, American writer
• 1966 – Polly Walker, English actress
• 1967 – Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and sculptor
• 1968 – Kyle Eastwood, American jazz musician
• 1970 – Choi Kyung-Ju, South Korean golfer
• 1970 – Mario Dumont, Canadian politician
• 1970 – Jason Gray-Stanford, Canadian actor
• 1971 – Ross Katz, American film producer
• 1971 – Psicosis, Mexican professional wrestler
• 1972 – Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
• 1972 – Claudia Karvan, Australian actress
• 1974 – Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1975 – Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
• 1975 – London Fletcher, American football player
• 1975 – Delma Gonçalves, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 – Josh Paul, American baseball player
• 1976 – Ed Cota, American basketball player
• 1976 – Kevin Garnett, American basketball player
• 1977 – Manuel Almunia, Spanish footballer
• 1977 – Brandon Inge, American baseball player
• 1977 – Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer and actress
• 1977 – Kelly Sheridan, Canadian voice actress
• 1978 – Marcus Bent, English footballer
• 1979 – Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 – Barbara Nedeljakova, Slovak actress
• 1979 – Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
• 1980 – Drew Fuller, American actor and model
• 1980 – Tony Hackworth, English footballer
• 1981 – Bong Tae-gyu, South Korean actor
• 1981 – Luciano Figueroa, Argentine footballer
• 1981 – Georges St. Pierre, Canadian mixed martial artist
• 1981 – Klaas-Erik Zwering, Dutch swimmer
• 1982 – Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
• 1982 – Pål Steffen Andresen, Norwegian footballer
• 1983 – Eve Angel, Hungarian pornographic actress
• 1983 – Jessica Fox, English actress
• 1984 – Marcedes Lewis, American football player
• 1986 – Mario Chalmers, American basketball player
• 1986 – Eric Lloyd, American actor
• 1987 – David Edgar, Canadian footballer
• 1987 – Mariano Torres, Argentine footballer

Deaths

• 804 – Alcuin, English monk (b. c.735)
• 988 – Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)
• 1102 – Stephen, Count of Blois (b. c.1045)
• 1125 – Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
• 1296 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
• 1319 – Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)
• 1389 – Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)
• 1526 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
• 1531 – Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
• 1536 – Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England
• 1601 – Costanzo Porta, Italian composer
• 1610 – Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
• 1637 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
• 1715 – Charles Montagu, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
• 1786 – John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)
• 1795 – Josiah Bartlett, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)
• 1795 – James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
• 1798 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722)
• 1821 – Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
• 1825 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
• 1864 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
• 1865 – Sengge Rinchen, Qing Dynasty field Marshal KIA (b. 1811)
• 1876 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (b. 1801)
• 1885 – Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
• 1895 – José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853)
• 1898 – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
• 1904 – Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
• 1907 – Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
• 1912 – Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)
• 1915 – John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
• 1918 – Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
• 1935 – T. E. Lawrence, English soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia (b. 1888)
• 1940 – Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish matador (b. 1895)
• 1943 – Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
• 1945 – Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (b. 1889)
• 1946 – Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
• 1954 – Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)
• 1958 – Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1958 – Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
• 1963 – Walter Russell, American polymath (b. 1871)
• 1965 – Tui Malila, world's oldest tortoise
• 1969 – Coleman Hawkins, American musician (b. 1901)
• 1971 – Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
• 1983 – Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
• 1984 – John Betjeman, English poet and Poet Laureate (b. 1906)
• 1986 – Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b. 1931)
• 1987 – James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915)
• 1989 – CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901)
• 1994 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
• 1994 – Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (b. 1945)
• 1998 – Sōsuke Uno, Japanese prime minister (b. 1922)
• 1999 – James Blades, English percussionist (b. 1901)
• 1999 – Candy Candido, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2000 – Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
• 2001 – Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
• 2002 – John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
• 2002 – Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Camoflauge, American rapper (b. 1981)
• 2004 – Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Henry Corden, American actor and voice artist (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Freddie Garrity, English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Velupillai Prabhakaran,Sri Lankan founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
• 2009 – Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Herbert York, American physicist (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

• World Hepatitis Day
• Greece: Greek genocide remembrance day
• Turkey, Northern Cyprus: Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day
• Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh's Birthday
• Canada: Victoria Day
• Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
  • Dunstan
  • Peter Celestine
  • Ives
  • Pudentiana
  • Maria Bernarda Bütler
  • Joaquina Vedruna de Mas
  • Calocerus

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

It is love alone that gives worth to all things. ~ St. Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesús)

• selected by Kalki

2005

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. ~ Malcolm X (born 19 May 1925)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious — that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. ~ Dan Brown (author of The Da Vinci Code; film adaptation released worldwide on 19 May 2006)

• selected by Kalki

2007

With all reverence, I would say, let God do His work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles. ~ Abraham Davenport (Statement on 19 May 1780, "New England's Dark Day" which many feared might be the coming of the Last Judgment; as quoted by John Greenleaf Whittier.

• proposed by Kalki

2008

Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness. ~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (precise birthdate unknown, but celebrated on May 19)

• proposed by Zarbon

2009

Humankind consists of two sexes, woman and man. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies? ~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (born May 19)

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

Suggestions

Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your — your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. ~ Malcolm X

• 3 Kalki 09:05, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:26, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 09:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

If the Tiger does not stop fighting the Elephant, the Elephant will die of exhaustion. ~ Ho Chi Minh (born May 19)

• 4 because this is so true. A battle can be won by tiring the greater enemy into defeat. I love this quote wholeheartedly. It sets the idea of david and goliath into an understandable and moral realm. Zarbon 06:23, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Source: A Short History of Communism - Page 137 - by Robert Harvey - Political Science - 2004
• 3 Kalki 00:08, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 09:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. ~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (born May 19)

• 3 because in this one statement, the leader explains to the soldiers how low their chances of survival would be in one assault, yet in this honest situation, gives courage and strikes honor and valor, allowing the soldier to serve full-throttle and serve to the bitter end. Zarbon 05:08, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:08, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 09:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Comment: Although Atatürk's birthdate is unknown, this is a good day for posting quotes for him because it has become the Turkish national holiday in his honor. - InvisibleSun 09:32, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Comment: But I could've sworn he's born on May 19th. Maybe it's not listed on the wikipedia pages, but it is listed in numerous other sites, for reference purposes. Zarbon 16:52, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

His birthdate isn't listed on Wikipedia because they evidently concluded, based on the information shown here, that his birthdate could not be determined. - InvisibleSun 21:40, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. ~ Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930)

• 3 InvisibleSun 09:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 14:21, 18 May 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 2 because those who are bound to being exceptional are bound to loneliness. Nice. Zarbon 16:54, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are entering a third era, in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work. ~ Nora Ephron (born May 19, 1941)

• 3 InvisibleSun 09:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 14:21, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 16:54, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. ~ Abraham Pais (born 19 May 1918)

• 3 Kalki 18:38, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 02:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.~ Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930)

• 3 Kalki 18:38, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 02:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Children see things very well sometimes — and idealists even better. ~ Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930)

• 3 Kalki 18:38, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 02:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men — and people in general. ~ Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930)

• 3 Kalki 18:38, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 02:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. ~ Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930)

• 3 Kalki 18:38, 18 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 02:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations. ~ Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930)

• 4 Kalki 18:38, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 02:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also. ~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte (born 19 May 1762)

• 3 Kalki 10:18, 12 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything: all its possessions may be torn away without infringing its true dignity; — all but the possibility of improvement. ~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte

• 3 Kalki 10:18, 12 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on May 19.

From Familypedia

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

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 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 has Mary Queen of Scots arrested.
• 1604 - The town of Montreal is founded.
• 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.
• 1649 - An Act declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
• 1749 - King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
• 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 AM.
• 1802 - The Légion 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 California, Nevada, Utah and parts of five other modern-day U.S. states to the USA for USD $15 million.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
• 1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
• 1913 - Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du printemps" premiers in Paris. The audience riots.
• 1919 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what was later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is the official date of commemoration of the Pontic Greek Genocide in Greece and Cyprus.
• 1921 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress establishing national quotas on immigration
• 1922 - Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
• 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.
• 1971 - Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
• 1991 - Croatians vote for independence at their independence referendum.

Births

• 1593 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
• 1700 - José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)
• 1724 - Augustus Hervey, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)
• 1744 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
• 1762 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1814)
• 1773 - Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
• 1795 - Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873)
• 1797 - Maria Isabel of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1818)
• 1827 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
• 1861 - Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
• 1862 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (d. 1942)
• 1870 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936)
• 1874 - Gilbert Laird Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955)
• 1879 - Nancy Astor, American-born politician (d. 1964)
• 1880 - Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (d. 1964)
• 1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938)
• 1882 - Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
• 1890 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969)
• 1891 - Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916)
• 1897 - Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
• 1898 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974)
• 1906 - Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
• 1908 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
• 1909 - Nicholas Winton, British Humanitarian
• 1914 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)
• 1914 - Go Seigen, Japanese Go player
• 1914 - Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1918 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000)
• 1921 - Yuri Kochiyama, American civil rights activist
• 1921 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
• 1921 - Daniel Gélin, French actor (d. 2002)
• 1924 - Sandy Wilson, British composer
• 1925 - Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
• 1925 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
• 1925 - Guy Provost, French Canadian actor (d. 2004)
• 1926 - Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author
• 1928 - Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
• 1928 - Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach
• 1929 - John Stroger Chicago politician
• 1930 - Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d. 1965)
• 1931 - Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor
• 1931 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver (d. 1967)
• 1932 - Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
• 1932 - Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007)
• 1932 - Claude Blanchard, Quebec comedian, actor and singer (d. 2006)
• 1934 - Jim Lehrer, American television journalist
• 1934 - Ruskin Bond, Indian author
• 1935 - Xadir N'Diaye, Senegalese-American Muslim leader
• 1939 - Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
• 1939 - James Fox, English actor
• 1939 - Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong actress
• 1939 - Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
• 1940 - Mickey Newbury, American musician
• 1940 - Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
• 1941 - Nora Ephron, American screenwriter
• 1942 - Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (d. 1994)
• 1942 - Robert Kilroy-Silk, British politician/television presenter
• 1944 - Peter Mayhew, British-American actor
• 1945 - Pete Townshend, English musician (The Who)
• 1946 - André the Giant, French professional wrestler (d. 1993)
• 1946 - Claude Lelièvre, Belgian commissioner for children's rights
• 1947 - Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
• 1947 - Paul Brady, Northern Ireland singer/songwriter
• 1947 - David Helfgott, Australian pianist
• 1948 - Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
• 1949 - Archie Manning, American football player
• 1949 - Dusty Hill, American blues rock singer/bassist (ZZ Top)
• 1951 - Joey Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
• 1952 - Bert van Marwijk, Dutch football manager
• 1953 - Victoria Wood, British comic actress
• 1953 - Dawud M. Mu'Min, American convicted murderer (d. 1997)
• 1953 - Shavarsh Karapetyan, Soviet Armenian finswimmer
• 1954 - Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC)
• 1956 - James Gosling, Canadian computer programmer
• 1956 - Steven Ford, American actor
• 1957 - Bill Laimbeer, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 - Nicole Brown Simpson, Ex-wife of O.J. Simpson and murder victim. (d. 1994)
• 1963 - Yazz, British singer
• 1964 - Miloslav Mečíř, Slovakian former tennis player
• 1966 - Polly Walker, British actress
• 1966 - Marc Bureau, French Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 - Kyle Eastwood, American jazz musician; son of Clint Eastwood
• 1970 - Mario Dumont, Quebec politician (Action démocratique du Québec)
• 1971 - Dionicio Castellanos, Mexican professional wrestler
• 1972 - Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
• 1973 - Dario Franchitti, Scottish race car driver
• 1974 - Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1975 - London Fletcher, American football player
• 1975 - Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
• 1975 - Josh Paul, American baseball player
• 1975 - Pretinha, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 - Ed Cota, American basketball player
• 1976 - Kevin Garnett, American basketball player
• 1977 - Manuel Almúnia, Spanish footballer
• 1977 - Brandon Inge, American baseball player
• 1978 - Marcus Bent, English footballer
• 1979 - Barbara Nedeljakova, Slovak actress (Hostel)
• 1979 - Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 - Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
• 1980 - Drew Fuller, American actor/model
• 1980 - Tony Hackworth, English footballer
• 1981 - Georges St. Pierre, Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
• 1981 - Luciano Figueroa, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 - Klaas-Erik Zwering, Dutch swimmer
• 1981 - Nate Cole, American singer/songwriter (formerly of Plus One)
• 1982 - Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
• 1982 - Pål Steffen Andresen, Norwegian footballer
• 1983 - Eve Angel, Hungarian model/porn star
• 1983 - Jessica Fox, British actress
• 1984 - Marcedes Lewis, American football player
• 1986 - Eric Lloyd, American actor
• 1987 - David Edgar, Canadian footballer
• 1988 - Lily Cole, English model/actress
• 1991 - Jordan Pruitt, American singer

Deaths

• 804 - Alcuin, English monk (b. c. 735)
• 988 - Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)
• 1102 - Stephen (b. c. 1045)
• 1125 - Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
• 1296 - Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
• 1319 - Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)
• 1389 - Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)
• 1526 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
• 1531 - Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
• 1536 - Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England
• 1601 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer
• 1610 - Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
• 1637 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
• 1715 - Charles Montagu, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
• 1786 - John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)
• 1795 - Josiah Bartlett, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)
• 1795 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
• 1798 - William Byron, English dueler (b. 1722)
• 1821 - Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
• 1825 - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
• 1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
• 1876 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (b. 1801)
• 1885 - Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
• 1895 - José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853)
• 1898 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
• 1904 - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
• 1907 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
• 1912 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)
• 1915 - John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
• 1918 - Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
• 1935 - T. E. Lawrence, English soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia (b. 1888)
• 1943 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
• 1945 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (b. 1889)
• 1946 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
• 1954 - Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)
• 1958 - Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
• 1965 - Tui Malila, world's oldest tortoise (b. 1773 or 1777)
• 1969 - Coleman Hawkins, American musician (b. 1901)
• 1971 - Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
• 1983 - Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
• 1984 - John Betjeman, English poet and Poet Laureate (b. 1906)
• 1986 - Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b. 1931)
• 1987 - James Tiptree, American author (b. 1915)
• 1989 - CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901)
• 1994 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
• 1994 - Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (b. 1945)
• 1998 - Sōsuke Uno, Japanese prime minister (b. 1922)
• 2000 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
• 2001 - Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
• 2002 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
• 2002 - Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917)
• 2004 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)
• 2005 - Henry Corden, American actor and voice artist (b. 1921)
• 2006 - Freddie Garrity, English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940)
• 2007 - Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)

Holidays and observances

• Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
  • Saint Ciarán mac Colga
  • Dunstan
  • Peter Celestine
  • Ives
  • Emiliana
  • Pudentiana
  • Theophilus of Corte
• Commemoration of Atatürk in Turkey (1919).

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada