Page 5: Historical Events In May - 19

1918  On this day in history wash 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings   

1918  On May - 19 florence Chadwick, swimmer (1st to swim English Channel both ways)   

1919  On this day in history 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.   

1919  Betty Jameson, Norman OK, LPGA golfer (1947 US Women's Open) on May - 19.   

1921  On May - 19 congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system   

1921  Charles van de Reve, slavic (Belief of Kameraden) on May - 19.   

1922  On this day in history david McLean, Akron Oh, actor (Tate-Tate)   

1922  On May - 19 heinrich I Quincke, German internist (postural drainage), dies at 79   

1923  On this day in history kPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies   

1923  On May - 19 49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4   

1924  On this day in history sandy Galbraith Wilson, composer   

1924  On May - 19 billy Zulch, cricketer (S Afr batsman scored 2 Test centuries), dies   

1925  On May - 19 the birth of Malcom X, controversial American civil rights leader   

1925  On May - 19 malcolm X, [Little], [Detroit Red], Omaha NB, founder (Black Muslims)   

1926  French air force bombs Damascus Syria on May - 19.   

1926  On May - 19 paul Cooper, composer   

1928  On this day in history "Firedamp" explodes in Mather PA coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners   

1928  On May - 19 51 frogs enter first annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp CA)   

1928  On this day in history anthony C B Chapman, England, sports car builder/autoracer (Formula 1)   

1928  On this day in history henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer, dies at 59   

1929  Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium; 2 people crushed to death on this day in history.   

1929  General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek Government on this day in history.   

1929  On this day in history cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death   

1929  On this day in history harvey Cox, US theologist (Secular City)   

1930  White woman win voting rights in South-Africa on May - 19.   

1930  On this day in history hans Kox, composer   

1931  Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel on May - 19.   

1931  Eric Davidson, comedy scriptwriter on this day in history.   

1934  Military coup by Colonel Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria on May - 19.   

1934  Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Saturday Review of Literature"; Males who solved puzzle become members of Baker Street Irregulars on May - 19.   

1934  Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria on this day in history.   

1934  On this day in history david Sinclair, actor (Love & Hate)   

1935  On this day in history nFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936   

1935  On May - 19 david Hartman, Pawtucket RI, TV personality (Good Morning America)   

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1469  On this day in history birth of giovanni della Robbia, Ital's sculptor   

1611  On this day in history birth of innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Italy, 240th Pope (1676-89)   

1616  On May - 19 birth of johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer   

1700  José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770) was born on May - 19.   

1724  On this day in history birth of augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)   

1744  On this day in history birth of charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)   

1746  Johann Friedrich Peter, composer was born on this day in history.   

1755  On this day in history birth of gabriele Prota, composer   

0804  On May - 19 alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69   

0988  Dunstan[us], English archbishop of Canterbury, dies on May - 19.   

1125  Death of Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053) on May - 19.   

1296  Celestine V, [Pietro del Murrone], Pope (1294), dies on May - 19.   

1319  On May - 19 death of louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)   

1389  On this day in history death of dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)   

1526  On this day in history death of emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)   

1531  Death of Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456) on May - 19.