Page 8: Historical Events In May - 19

1975  On this day in history farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona India   

1975  Junko Tabei is first woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest on May - 19.   

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

1976  On May - 19 gold ownership legalized in Australia   

1976  On May - 19 liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge   

1976  On this day in history senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence   

1976  USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR on May - 19.   

1977  "Smokey &the Bandit" premieres on this day in history.   

1978  George Gladstone, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1930), dies on May - 19.   

1979  "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3 on May - 19.   

1979  On this day in history guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd   

1979  The President announced he had instructed the U.S. Seventh Fleet to aid the Vietnamese "boat people" and assist them to safety on this day in history.   

1980  On this day in history ringo &Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash   

1982  On May - 19 iFK Göteborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at Göteborg   

1982  Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion on this day in history.   

1983  NASA launches Intelsat V on May - 19.   

1983  Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington DC on this day in history.   

1983  On May - 19 jean Rey, Belgian minister, dies   

1984  "King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62 on May - 19.   

1984  STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad on this day in history.   

1986  Anti-apartheid activist Hélène Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa on this day in history.   

1987  Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1988  Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellín drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US on May - 19.   

1988  On this day in history virginia Farmer, actresss (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 90   

1989  On May - 19 dow Jones average passes 2,500 mark for first time, closes at 2,501.1   

1989  Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas on this day in history.   

1989  On this day in history able J Herzberg, Russ/Neth lawyer (Eichmann in Jerusalem), dies   

1991  On May - 19 willy T Ribbs becomes first black driver to make Indianapolis 500   

1991  Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies on May - 19.   

1992  On this day in history 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary   

1992  Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa Long Island New York on May - 19.   

1992  Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches on this day in history.   

1992  On this day in history ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title   

1992  Vice President Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values on May - 19.   

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1469  Giovanni della Robbia, Ital's sculptor was born on this day in history.   

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

1616  Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer was born on this day in history.   

1700  On this day in history birth of josé de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)   

1724  Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779) was born on May - 19.   

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

1746  Johann Friedrich Peter, composer was born on May - 19.   

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

0804  On this day in history alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69   

0988  Dunstan[us], English archbishop of Canterbury, dies on this day in history.   

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

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.