1906<\/strong> – The Federated Boys’ Clubs, the forerunner of the Boys’ Clubs of America, was organized.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong> – The first American criminal conviction that was based on fingerprint evidence occurred in New York City.<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong> – The Associated Advertising Clubs of America held its first convention in Dallas,\u00a0TX.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – Thomas Edison spoke on the radio for the first time.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – Benito Mussolini announced that democracy was deceased. Rome became a fascist state.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – In Damascus, Syria, French shells killed 600 people.<\/p>\n 1928<\/strong> – The first frog-jumping jubilee held in Calaveras County,\u00a0CA.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – T.E. Lawrence “Lawrence of Arabia” died from injuries in a motorcycle crash in England.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – The\u00a0National Football League (NFL)\u00a0adopted an annual college draft to begin in 1936.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – Winston Churchill told the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress that his country was pledging their full support in the war against Japan.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> – Canada and the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0formally established the North American Air Defense Command.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of “Happy Birthday” for\u00a0U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The event was a fund-raiser at New York’s Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0State Department reported that diplomats had found about 40 microphones planted in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Embassy in Moscow.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the\u00a0United States\u00a0and Britain that banned nuclear weapons from outer space.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – Erno Rubik invented the puzzle what would later become known as the Rubik’s Cube.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0planes bombed Hanoi for the first time.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – The Empire State Building was designated a New York City Landmark.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – In Jacksonville, FL, Carlos Lehder Rivas was convicted of smuggling more than three tons of cocaine into the United States. Rivas was the co-founder of Colombia’s Medellin drug cartel.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – The Dow Jones Industrial Average passed 2,500 for the first time. The close for the day was 2,501.1.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the CBS sitcom “Murphy Brown” for having its title character decide to bear a child out of wedlock.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – In Massapequa,\u00a0NY, Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded by Amy Fisher. Fisher was her husband Joey’s teenage lover.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – The 27th Amendment to the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibits Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed about 3,500 (3,500.03) for the first time.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – In Russia, strikes broke out over unpaid wages.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Bandits stole three of Rome’s most important paintings from the National Gallery of Modern Art.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” was released in the\u00a0U.S. It set a new record for opening day sales at 28.5 million.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Rosie O’Donnell and Tom Selleck got into an uncomfortable verbal issue concerning gun control on O’Donnell’s talk show.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – The bones of the most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton went on display in Chicago.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – Disney released the movie “Dinosaur.”<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – It was announced that Worldcom Inc. would pay investors $500 million to settle civil fraud charges over its $11 billion accounting scandal.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – Hundreds of Albert Einstein’s scientific papers, personal letters, and humanist essays made available on the Internet. Einstein had given the papers to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in his will.<\/p>\n 2005<\/strong> – “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” brought in 50.0 million in its opening day.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong> – The Yahoo board approved the $1.1 billion purchase of the blogging site Tumblr.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Refugio oil spill\u00a0deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of\u00a0crude oil\u00a0onto an area in\u00a0California\u00a0considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the\u00a0west coast.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0EgyptAir Flight 804\u00a0crashes into the\u00a0Mediterranean Sea\u00a0while traveling from\u00a0Paris\u00a0to\u00a0Cairo, killing all on board.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0wedding\u00a0of\u00a0Prince Harry\u00a0and\u00a0Meghan Markle\u00a0is held at\u00a0St George’s Chapel,\u00a0Windsor, with an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History of 19 May 1906 – The Federated Boys’ Clubs, the forerunner of the Boys’ Clubs of America, was organized. 1911 – The first American criminal conviction that was based on fingerprint evidence occurred in New York City. 1912 – The Associated Advertising Clubs of America held its first convention in Dallas,\u00a0TX. 1921 – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[734,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-19-may","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-1ez","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24189,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions\/24189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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