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May 19th
1536 ~ Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England was beheaded for adultery.
1795 ~ Birthday of Johns Hopkins, Philanthropist.
1890 ~ Birthday of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader.
1915 ~ Death of John Simpson Kirkpatrick, ANZAC stretcher bearer at Gallipoli.
1921 ~ The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.
1925 ~ Birthday of Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge leader.
1935 ~ Death of T. E. Lawrence, English soldier ("Lawrence of Arabia").
1965 ~ Tui Malila, the longest living animal known, died in Tonga at the age of either 188 or 192.
2001 ~ Sun Zhonghua was killed by People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized under the "One child" policy.
2004 ~ PM Blair hit with a purple flour filled condom.
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May 20th
1772 ~ Birthday of Sir William Congreve, English inventor (“By the rockets’ red glare”).
1806 ~ Birthday of John Stuart Mill, English philosopher.
1873 ~ Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1883 ~ The eruption of Krakatoa began, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later.
1896 ~ Death of Clara Schumann, German Pianist and Composer.
1901 ~ Birthday of Max Euwe, Dutch world chess champion.
1927 ~ Charles Lindbergh took off from Long Island, New York, on the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, arriving in Paris the next day.
1940 ~ The first prisoners arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1961 ~ U.S. marshals were sent to restore order in Montgomery, Alabama.
2000 ~ Death of Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist.
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May 21st
1471 ~ Birthday of Albrecht Dürer, German painter and graphic artist.
1881 ~ Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
1895 ~ Death of Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer.
1921 ~ Birthday of Andrei Sakharov, physicist and human rights activist, awarded the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize.
1924 ~ Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1933 ~ Birthday of Maurice André, trumpeter.
1956 ~ The U.S. detonated the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1991 ~ Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a female suicide bomber.
2000 ~ Death of Sir John Gielgud, British actor.
2004 ~ Stanislav Petrov was awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.
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May 22nd
1813 ~ Birthday of Richard Wagner, Composer.
1840 ~ Transporting British convicts to the New South Wales colony was abolished.
1856 ~ In one of the more impressive expressions of American democracy, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the U.S. Senate because of a speech Sumner had made which attacked Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas.
1859 ~ Birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Physician & Writer.
1885 ~ Death of Victor Hugo, French author.
1907 ~ Birthday of Sir Laurence Olivier, Actor & Director.
1907 ~ Birthday of Hergé, comic book creator.
1947 ~ The Truman Doctrine was enacted.
1969 ~ The lunar module of Apollo 10 separated from the command module and flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
1972 ~ Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka, adopted a new constitution, and joined the British Commonwealth.
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May 27th
1837 ~ Birthday of Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter.
1877 ~ Birthday of Isadora Duncan, Dancer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Henry Kissinger, American diplomat, recipient of The Nobel Peace Prize 1973.
1933 ~ The Walt Disney Co. released the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
1934 ~ Birthday of Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction author.
1937 ~ The Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic.
1941 ~ The German battleship Bismarck was sunk.
1963 ~ Jomo Kenyatta led his party, Kenya African Nation Union, to victory in the Kenya’s first general election.
1964 ~ Death of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first PM.
1995 ~ Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman) was paralyzed when he was thrown from his horse during a jumping event.
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1431 ~ Death of Joan of Arc, Condemned Heretic (burned at the stake in Rouen, France).
1640 ~ Death of Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter.
1778 ~ Death of Voltaire, French philosopher & Author.
1926 ~ Birthday of Christine Jorgensen, transsexual activist.
1942 ~ 1,047 British bombers launched a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1964 ~ Death of Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist.
1982 ~ Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr played the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak ended on September 20, 1998.
1989 ~ The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue was unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1997 ~ Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka - a case that inspired ''Megan's Law',' which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
2001 ~ Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was convicted of corruption.
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