History for May 19

History for May 19 - On-This-Day.com:
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 Townshend 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.


1921 - The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.


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.


1958 - Canada and the U.S. formally established the North American Air Defense Command.


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.