Page 8: Historical Events In May - 19

1975  On this day in history farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona India   

1975  On this day in history junko Tabei is first woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest   

1975  On May - 19 27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake &Jean Marsh   

1976  On May - 19 gold ownership legalized in Australia   

1976  Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge on May - 19.   

1976  Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on May - 19.   

1976  On May - 19 uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR   

1977  "Smokey &the Bandit" premieres on this day in history.   

1978  On this day in history george Gladstone, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1930), dies   

1979  "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3 on May - 19.   

1979  On this day in history guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd   

1979  On May - 19 the President announced he had instructed the U.S. Seventh Fleet to aid the Vietnamese "boat people" and assist them to safety   

1980  On May - 19 ringo &Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash   

1982  IFK Göteborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at Göteborg on May - 19.   

1982  Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion on May - 19.   

1983  NASA launches Intelsat V on May - 19.   

1983  On May - 19 weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington DC   

1983  On May - 19 jean Rey, Belgian minister, dies   

1984  On this day in history "King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62   

1984  STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad on this day in history.   

1986  On this day in history anti-apartheid activist Hélène Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa   

1987  Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71 on May - 19.   

1988  Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellín drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US on this day in history.   

1988  On May - 19 virginia Farmer, actresss (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 90   

1989  Dow Jones average passes 2,500 mark for first time, closes at 2,501.1 on May - 19.   

1989  Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas on this day in history.   

1989  On May - 19 able J Herzberg, Russ/Neth lawyer (Eichmann in Jerusalem), dies   

1991  Willy T Ribbs becomes first black driver to make Indianapolis 500 on this day in history.   

1991  Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies on this day in history.   

1992  On May - 19 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary   

1992  On May - 19 amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa Long Island New York   

1992  On May - 19 englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches   

1992  Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title on this day in history.   

1992  On May - 19 vice President Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values   

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1469  Giovanni della Robbia, Ital's sculptor was born on May - 19.   

1611  Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Italy, 240th Pope (1676-89) was born on May - 19.   

1616  On May - 19 birth of johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer   

1700  On May - 19 birth of josé de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)   

1724  On this day in history birth of augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)   

1744  On May - 19 birth of charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)   

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

1755  Gabriele Prota, composer was born on May - 19.   

0804  Alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69 on this day in history.   

0988  On May - 19 dunstan[us], English archbishop of Canterbury, dies   

1125  On May - 19 death of vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)   

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

1319  Death of Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276) on this day in history.   

1389  On May - 19 death of dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)   

1526  On May - 19 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)