May 19 in history
Events on May 19
Notable events that happened on May 19 in past years.
- 2024
A helicopter crash in Iran leaves 8 people dead, including the country's president Ebrahim Raisi & foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
Wikipedia article: 2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash - 2012
Three gas cylinder bombs explode in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing one person and injuring five others.
Wikipedia article: Brindisi school bombing - 2007
A mass shooting starts in Moscow, Idaho, which would leave 3 non-shooters dead and 3 more injured, before the shooter committed suicide the next day.
Wikipedia article: 2007 Moscow, Idaho, shooting - 1993
SAM Colombia Flight 501 crashes on approach to José María Córdova International Airport in Medellín, Colombia, killing 132.
Wikipedia article: SAM Colombia Flight 501 - 1963
The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Wikipedia article: Martin Luther King Jr. - 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.
Wikipedia article: People's Army of Vietnam - 1942
World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor for repairs.
Wikipedia article: World War II - 1921
The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
Wikipedia article: United States Congress - 1900
Great Britain annexes Tonga Island.
Wikipedia article: Great Britain - 1845
Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
Wikipedia article: John Franklin - 1780
New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, is observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
Wikipedia article: New England's Dark Day - 1674
John III Sobieski becomes king of Poland-Lithuania.
Wikipedia article: John III Sobieski - 1542
The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Myanmar.
Wikipedia article: Prome kingdom - 1445
John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo.
- 639
Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assault Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace.
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