May 19th

May 19 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 216 days remaining until the end of time.

1856 Senator Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, speaks out against slavery and gets his ass beaten by South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks

1884 Ringling Brothers circus premieres

1897 Dear Oscar is released from Reading Gaol

1928 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Calaveras County, California)

1960 Alan Freed and eight other DJ are accused of taking radio payola

1962 Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431, but his rookie card isn’t worth a tenth of Wagner’s.  Perhaps if they used a different pose. . .

1962 Marilyn Monroe sings Happy Birthday to President Kennedy at Madison Square Garden

 

1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3.  We support the troops!

1992 Dan Quayle cites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values

1995 World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He’s cute, but no Doogie Howser

1870 Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish, US serial killer/child rapist/cannibal 

1906 Bruce Bennett aka Herman Brix, US Olympic athlete/actor/Tarzan

1925 Malcolm X aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, US Nation of Islam spokesperson/civil rights activist/martyr 

1930 Lorraine Hansberry, bisexual US playwright/A Raisin in the Sun 

1939 James Fox, English actor 

1948 Grace Jones, bisexual Jamaican singer/model/actress/Dolph Lundgren rider 

1946 Michele Placido, Italian actor/director 

1973 Cary Kolat, US wrestler 

1975 Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor/director 

1977 Tylo Taylor, US actor 

1979 Diego Forlan, Uruguayan soccer player

1985 Jon Kortajarena, Spanish model/actor 

1986 Alex Stevens, gay Czech actor 

1895 José Martí, Cuban independence leader, can’t stomach his Cuba libré

1935 T E Lawrence, gay Welsh author/spy/diplomat, gets his swash buckled

1994 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, US first lady/famous widow/photographer/editor, widows well

2010 Moishe Rosen, US Baptist minister/founder of Jews for Jesus, gets to meet Him up close and personal.