History for May 19

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Johns Hopkins 1795 - entrepreneur, philanthropist, mosted noted for the creation of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Sinh Cung) 1890 - North Vietnamese Communist revolutionary, prime minister and president, Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) 1925 - African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist 


Francis Scobee (Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee) 1939 - Astronaut, killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger, Pete Townsend 1945 - Musician (The Who), David Helfgott 1947 - Concert pianist 


1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after she was convicted of adultery. 


1847 - The first English-style railroad coach was placed in service on the Fall River Line in Massachusetts. 


1911 - The first American criminal conviction that was based on fingerprint evidence occurred in New York City. 


1926 - Benito Mussolini announced that democracy was deceased. Rome became a fascist state. 


1935 - T.E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia" died from injuries in a motorcycle crash in England. 


1962 - Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The event was a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden. 


1974 - Erno Rubik invented the puzzle what would later become known as the Rubik's Cube. 


1992 - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the CBS sitcom "Murphy Brown" for having its title character decide to bear a child out of wedlock. 


1992 - In Massapequa, NY, Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded by Amy Fisher. Fisher was her husband Joey's teen-age lover. 


1992 - The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibits Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises.