05-19-2006, 10:42 AM
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May 19th
1536 ~ Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England was beheaded for adultery.
1795 ~ Birthday of Johns Hopkins, Philanthropist.
1864 ~ Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Author.
1890 ~ Birthday of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader.
1897 ~ Oscar Wilde was released from Reading Gaol.
1921 ~ The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.
1925 ~ Birthday of Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge leader.
1935 ~ Death of T. E. Lawrence, English soldier ("Lawrence of Arabia").
1965 ~ Tui Malila, the longest living animal known, died in Tonga at the age of either 188 or 192.
2001 ~ One child policy: Zhonghua Sun was killed by People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized.
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