Page 4: Historical Events In May - 19

1897  Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.   

1898  Post Office authorizes use of postcards.   

1899  Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/playwright   

1900  Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago   

1901  Ivo Cruz, composer.   

1901  Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st pres Rep South-Africa, dies at 81.   

1902  Great Britain and Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria   

1903  Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (1277 runs at 35 47 in 23 Tests), dies   

1904  Anthony Bushell, Kent England, actor (Journey's End)   

1905  Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss President open world's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Iselle Italy and Brig Switzerland.   

1905  Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ.   

1906  Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes.   

1906  Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier   

1906  The last British soldiers leave Canada   

1906  Dutch King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel   

1909  Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title   

1909  Bruce Bennett, Tacoma Wash, actor (Before I Hang, Sahara)   

1910  Cleve Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Wash 5-4 in 11 innings.   

1910  Alan Melville, cricketer (graceful South African batsman 1938-49)   

1911  Maurice Ravels opera "L'Heure Espagnole," premieres in Paris.   

1912  American League president Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball   

1912  Navy establishes North Atlantic Ice Patrol following RMS Titanic disaster   

1912  AL Pres Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball   

1913  Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japs from owning land   

1913  Albert Hardy, photographer   

1915  Australians repel major Turkish attack on their positions at Gallipoli.   

1915  Death on Gallipoli of Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick of "Simpson and his donkey" fame.   

1915  Lance Corporal Albert Jacka, 14th Battalion, AIF, is recorded as becoming the inaugural Australian to win a Victoria Cross in World War One for his action at Gallipoli, Turkey   

1916  Escadrille Américaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun.   

1918  Wash 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings   

1918  Florence Chadwick, swimmer (1st to swim English Channel both ways).   

1919  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what was later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is the official date of commemoration of the Pontic Greek Genocide in Greece and Cyprus   

1919  Betty Jameson, Norman OK, LPGA golfer (1947 US Women's Open)   

1921  Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system.   

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1469  Giovanni della robbia: Ital's sculptor   

1611  Innocent xi: [benedetto odescalchi], italy, 240th pope (1676-89)   

1616  Johann jacob froberger: German singer/organist/composer   

1700  José de escandón: Spanish colonial governor   

1724  Augustus hervey: 3rd earl of bristol, british admiral and politician   

1744  Charlotte of mecklenburg-strelitz: Charlotte of mecklenburg-strelitz (d. 1818)   

1746  Johann friedrich peter: Composer   

1755  Gabriele prota: Composer   

0804  Death of Alcuin of york: English scholar,   

0988  Dunstan[us]: English archbishop of canterbury,   

1125  Death of Vladimir monomakh: Russian prince (b. 1053)   

1296  Death of Celestine v: [pietro del murrone], pope (1294),   

1319  Louis d'Évreux: Son of philip iii of france (b. 1276)   

1389  Death of Dmitri donskoi: Grand prince of muscovy (b. 1350)   

1526  Death of Emperor go-kashiwabara of japan: Emperor go-kashiwabara of japan (b. 1464)   

1531  Death of Jan Łaski: Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)