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Sunday, May 19, 2013

This will be 139th day of the year and 226 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 10 Sivan 5773
Chinese calendar — the 10th day of the 4th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

May 19 Birthdays

Malcolm X
1925–65, militant black leader in the United States.

Johns Hopkins
financier and philanthropist (1795)

Nancy Astor
politician (1879)

Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese President (1890)

Lorraine Hansberry
playwright (1930)

Nora Ephron
screenwriter, director (1941)

Pete Townshend
musician; composer (1945)

May 2013

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5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

May 19 in History

1536

Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded.

1588

The 130-ship-strong Spanish Armada set sail for England; it was defeated in August.

1643

The colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Harbor met to form the New England Confederation.

1921

Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas for immigrants.

1928

The first annual Calaveras County "Frog Jumping Jubilee" was held in Angel's Camp, California.

1935

British author and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.

1962

Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday” to president John F. Kennedy.

1992

The 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises, went into effect.

1994

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.