Page 7: Historical Events In May - 19

1957  Adone Zoli forms Italian Government on this day in history.   

1957  On May - 19 adone Zoli forms Italian govt   

1958  "South Pacific" soundtrack album goes to #1 &stays #1 for 31 weeks on this day in history.   

1958  On this day in history premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party" in London   

1958  On May - 19 uS &Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)   

1958  On May - 19 bruno Sturmer, composer, dies at 65   

1959  Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands on this day in history.   

1960  On May - 19 alan Freed &eight other DJs accused of taking radio payola   

1960  Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed on May - 19.   

1960  USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222mph on May - 19.   

1961  On May - 19 new pier opens in Scheveningen   

1961  Joe Howard, singer (Gay Nineties Revue), dies at 94 on this day in history.   

1962  On May - 19 "John Birch Society" by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99   

1962  On May - 19 indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea   

1962  On this day in history stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's National League hit record with 3,431   

1962  US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) on May - 19.   

1964  On this day in history uS diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in the Moscow embassy   

1965  30th Naval Construction Regiment activated at Danang, Vietnam on May - 19.   

1965  On May - 19 patricia R Harris named first US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)   

1965  On this day in history west Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II   

1965  On this day in history maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Znaki Zycia), dies   

1966  Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's King by Capt Cook (1773), dies on May - 19.   

1967  On this day in history the United States, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom agree to ban nuclear weapons from outer space   

1967  On this day in history uS bombs Hanoi   

1967  USSR ratifies treaty with England &US banning nuclear weapons in space on this day in history.   

1968  20th Emmy Awards Get Smart, Mission Impossible &Barbara Bain on May - 19.   

1968  On May - 19 pirate Radio Brumble of Northern England first heard   

1968  20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible &Barbara Bain on this day in history.   

1969  Coleman Hawkins, US jazz musician/composer, dies on this day in history.   

1971  On this day in history uSSR launches Mars 2, first spacecraft to crash land on Mars   

1971  On this day in history bernard Wagenaar, Neth/US composer, dies at 76   

1972  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

1974  On May - 19 valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election   

1975  27th Emmy Awards Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake &Jean Marsh on May - 19.   

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1469  On May - 19 birth of giovanni della Robbia, Ital's sculptor   

1611  On May - 19 birth of innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Italy, 240th Pope (1676-89)   

1616  Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer was born on May - 19.   

1700  José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770) was born on this day in history.   

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

1744  On May - 19 birth of charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)   

1746  On this day in history birth of johann Friedrich Peter, composer   

1755  Gabriele Prota, composer was born on May - 19.   

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 this day in history.   

1296  Celestine V, [Pietro del Murrone], Pope (1294), dies on this day in history.   

1319  On this day in history 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  Death of Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464) on this day in history.   

1531  Death of Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456) on this day in history.