May 19

Events

• 1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America
• 1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery.
• 1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England has Mary Queen of Scots arrested.
• 1604 - The town of Montreal is founded.
• 1921 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress establishing national quotas on immigration
• 1991 - Croatians vote for independence at their independence referendum.

Births

• 1762 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1814)
• 1795 - Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873)
• 1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938)
• 1890 - Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnamese communist leader (d. 1969)
• 1898 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974)
• 1925 - Malcolm X, American Black radical (d. 1965)
• 1925 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)

Deaths

• 1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
• 1895 - José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853)
• 1898 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
• 1935 - T. E. Lawrence, English soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia (b. 1888)