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Notable anniversaries in history for today: May 19
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Gilbert Laird Jessop; cricket player (The Croucher).
- 100th: 1924 - Billy Zulch, cricket player (South Africa batsman scored two Test centuries), dies.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of David Sinclair; actor (Love and Hate).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of James Charles Lehrer in Wichita, Kansas, USA; news anchor (McNeil-Lehrer Report).
- 90th: 1934 - Military coup by Colonel Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria.
- 80th: 1944 - 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Netherlands.
- 80th: 1944 - German defense line in Italy collapses.
- 70th: 1954 - Aart A van Schelven, church historian (Willem of Orange), dies at age 73.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Rick Cerone in Newark, New Jersey, USA; catcher (New York Yankees/Boston Red Sox/New York Mets/Montreal Expos).
- 70th: 1954 - Charles Edward Ives, American composer (Unanswered Question), dies at age 79.
- 70th: 1954 - Postmaster General Summerfield approves US Central Intelligence Agency mail-opening project.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Phil Rudd; drummer (AC/DC).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Michael Dean Standly in Abilene, Texas, USA; PGA golfer (1993 Freeport-McMoRan).
- 60th: 1964 - US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in the Moscow embassy.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Tim Waldrip in Spokane, Washington, USA; actor (American Dream, Loving).
- 50th: 1974 - NHL Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2.
- 50th: 1974 - Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election.
- 40th: 1984 - Pat LaFontaine scores two goals within 22 seconds in an NHL playoff game.
- 40th: 1984 - NHL Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat New York Islanders, 4 games to 1.
- 40th: 1984 - 110th Preakness: Angel Cordero Junior aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6.
- 30th: 1994 - NBC airs the final episode of TV show L.A. Law, after an 8-year run.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Henry Morgan at age 79 of cancer; panelist (To Tell the Truth TV show).
- 30th: 1994 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, First Lady (1961-63), dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 64 (born 1929).
- 30th: 1994 - Luis Ocana Span, cyclist (Tour de France 1973), commits suicide at age 48.
- 30th: 1994 - An acoustic guitar previously owned by David Bowie, Paul McCartney, and George Michael sells for a record US$300,000 dollars at a charity auction in London, England.
- 25th: 1999 - Fox releases the film Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace to theaters.
- 20th: 2004 - Tony Blair is hit with a purple flour bomb in the chamber of the House of Commons during a session of Prime Minister's Questions.
- 20th: 2004 - Brad Thompson breaks a 97-year-old minor league record set by pitching 57 consecutive scoreless innings.
- 20th: 2004 - DreamWorks releases the film Shrek 2 to theaters.
- 20th: 2004 - Jeremy Sivits pleads guilty in a court-martial in connection with alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
- 15th: 2009 - UK Speaker of the House Michael Martin is forced to resign over expenses scandal.
- 15th: 2009 - Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is found dead in northeast Sri Lanka.
- 5th: 2019 - Eleven people are killed in a shooting at a bar in Belém, Brazil.
- 5th: 2019 - Google pulls Android update support for Huawei phones, as well as the Google Play Store and Gmail apps, after the Chinese technology company is blacklisted by the United States.
- 5th: 2019 - HBO airs the final episode of Game of Thrones TV show.
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