Events & Holidays In May - 19

Ho Chi Minh's Birthday (Vietnam)

Holiday of Poetry (Turkmenistan)

Malcolm X Day (United States of America)

Youth & Sports Day (Turkey)

1469  On this day in history birth of giovanni della Robbia, Ital's sculptor   

1611  Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Italy, 240th Pope (1676-89) was born on this day in history.   

1616  Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer was born on this day in history.   

1700  On this day in history birth of josé de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)   

1724  Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779) was born on this day in history.   

1744  Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818) was born on this day in history.   

1746  Johann Friedrich Peter, composer was born on this day in history.   

1755  On this day in history birth of gabriele Prota, composer   

0804  On this day in history alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69   

0988  On this day in history dunstan[us], English archbishop of Canterbury, dies   

1125  On this day in history death of vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)   

1296  Celestine V, [Pietro del Murrone], Pope (1294), dies on this day in history.   

1319  On this day in history death of louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)   

1389  On this day in history death of dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)   

1526  On this day in history death of emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)   

1531  On this day in history death of jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)