May 19

Today in History
• 1182 - The high altar of Paris cathedral Notre Dame is consecrated
• 1506 - Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir
• 1515 - George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders
• 1568 - English Queen Elizabeth I arrests Mary, Queen of Scots
• 1571 - Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines
• 1585 - Spain confisquates English ships
• 1635 - France declares war on Spain
• 1643 - Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form New England


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Frog Jumping Jubilee Day
• Malcolm X Day
• NASCAR Day
• National Bike to Work Day
• National Endangered Species Day
• Savitri Amavasya
• Virtual Assistants Day
• World Family Doctor Day

Birthdays
• 1474 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua
• 1611 - Innocent XI, Benedetto Odescalchi, Italy, 240th Pope, 1676-89
• 1724 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician
• 1795 - Johns Hopkins, philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University
• 1797 - Maria Isabel of Portugal, queen of Spain
• 1860 - Victor E Orlando, Italy's premier, 1917-19
• 1890 - Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer/leader of Vietnam, 1946, 1969
• 1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (1923-38)