About May 19
May 19, 2024 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.
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Taurus is the sun 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.
What Happened On May 19
- 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.
- 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.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
- 1802 –Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
- 1828 –U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
- 1845 –Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
- 1897 –Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol Prison.
- 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.
- 1922 –The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
- 1934 –Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
- 1959 –The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
- 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).
- 1971 –Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
- 1991 –Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
- 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.
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