May 19th

⁶ The May 19th is the 139e Jour of the Année (140e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

4th century

• 363 : Pétra is devastated by a Earthquake.

11th century

• 1099 : The Crusaders cross the river of the Dog, in the north of Beirut and penetrate in territory Fatimide.

14th century

• 1322 : The marriage of the King de France Charles IV '' Beautiful the '' and of White of Burgundy, compromised in the Business of the tower of Nesle in 1314, is cancelled by the Pape Jean XXII.

• 1328 : Crown Philippe VI: the Valois succeed the Capétiens. The Valois, the Anjou and the Maine are joined together with the Crown. The king gives up the Navarre with Jeanne, girl of Louis X Hutin, woman of Philippe d' Évreux.

• 1342 : Pierre Roger, old bishop of Rouen becomes Pape under the name of Clément VI (fine of the Pontificat in 1352). He develops with the extreme centralization and the pontifical taxation.

• 1359 : Jean of Ghent White wife, heiress of Lancaster, with Reading, and becomes duke of Lancaster by its marriage.

• 1364 : Crown Charles V with Rheims.

15th century

• 1498 : The Portuguese navigator Vasco de Gama approaches with Calicut (India). He becomes thus the first Européen to gain India by the sea by circumventing the Africa by the Cape of Good Hope and opens the road of the Indies.

16th century

• 1536 : Henri VIII, king of England makes decapitate his wife Anne Boleyn.

17th century

• 1643 : During the War Thirty Year old, the Duke of Enghien, soon called the Large Cop, is victorious with the Bataille of Rocroi.

19th century

• 1802 : Napoleon Bonaparte, then 1st Consul with life, creates by Décret the order of the Légion of honor to reward the civil proceedings and military.

• 1804 : Napoleon I {{er}} restores the dignity of Marshal of France and names the first Maréchaux of Empire.

• 1875 : 17 States sign with Paris the Convention of the Meter. This international treaty decides construction of a new prototype of the meter.

• 1889 : Jacob German of New York, first motorist stopped for excess speed in the car, to 20 km/h.

20th century

• 1902 : Creation of a cuban Republic.

• 1932 : The American aviatrice Amelia Earhart, 34 years, accomplishes only a transatlantic flight between Newfoundland (Canada) and the Ireland on board a Lockheed Véga. dual employment with the May 20th

• 1960 : The Palme of gold of XIIIe Cannes festival returns to the Dolce vita of Federico Fellini.

• 1974 : France, election of Valery Giscard d'Estaing to the Presidency of the French Republic.

• 1974 : First televisual appearance of Coluche.

• 1976 : Launching of the national Lotto in France.

• 1978 : The French parachutists of the foreign legion jump on Kolweizi, ex-Zaire.

• 1994 : Opening of the Channel tunnel.

• 1996 : Olivier Panis gains the Grand Prix of Monaco of Formule 1, last victory of a French pilot to date.

• 1999 : Star Wars: episode I - The phantom Threat leaves to the the United States and the Canada.

21e century

• 2002 : The Timor-Eastern obtains its independence.

• 2004, May 19th: The club of Valence (Spain) finally beats Marseilles (France) 2-0 of UEFA Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden.

• 2005 :

• the Iran prevents that its decision to take again the conversion of Uranium, precondition to enrichment, is “irreversible”.
• Star Wars: episode III - The Revenge of Sith leaves in the cinemas whole planet.

• 2006 : Da Vinci Code, the film drawn from the best-seller of Dan Brown leaves simultaneously in the whole world. It is carried out by Ron Howard, with, in the main roles, Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou.

• 2007 :

• Romania: Failure of the referendum on the dismissal of the president Traian Băsescu.
• StarCraft II: Exit of the second shutter of the play Starcraft
• Concert announces: Indo-China fills for the third Bercy time on its Alice & June Tour. The POPB is stuffed to crack of 17.000 boosted fans and in communion with the group.

Births

• 1744 : Constantine John Phipps, second baron Mulgrave, Exploring British. († October 10th 1792).

• 1870 : Albert Fish, serial killer and American cannibal. († January 16th 1936).
• 1890 : Ho Chi Minh, president of the Democratic republic of Vietnam (1945 - 1969). († September 2nd 1969)
• 1898: Julius Evola, thinker Italy N of the 20th century pertaining to the school traditionalist. († June 11th 1974)
• 1921: Daniel Gélin, actor, realizer and scenario writer French. († November 29th 2002)
• 1922: Gilded Fraud, French actress, knight with the National order of the Merit.
• 1925 : Malcolm X, American politician. († February 21st 1965)
• 1925: Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge and Prime Minister for the Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. († April 15th 1998)
• 1926: Fernand Raynaud, Humoriste and Actor French. († September 28th 1973)
• 1939: Francis R. Scobee, American astronaut. († January 28th 1986)
• 1941: Nora Ephron, director, scenario writer and producing American.
• 1944 : Peter Mayhew, British Actor , celebrates to have interpreted the role of Chewbacca in the Star Wars.
• 1945 : Pete Townshend, British guitarist of the group Rock'n'roll The Who.
• 1948
• Jean-Pierre Haigneré, Spationaut French.
• Grace Jones, mannequin, singer and American actress.
• 1951 : Joey Cleans, singer of group Punk Ramones. († April 15th 2001)
• 1954: Phil Rudd, beater of the group Rock'n'roll AC/DC.
• 1955 : Pierre J. Thuot, American astronaut.
• 1969: Thomas Vinterberg, realizer and scenario writer Danish.
• 1976 : Kevin Garnett, American basketball player
• 1979: Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
• 1979: Tunisiano, rappor member of the group Sniper

Death

• 946 : Al-Qaim Bi-Amr Allah, second caliph Fatimide. (° ^Ca 894)

• 1319: Louis de France, count d' Évreux, of Stamps and Beaumont-the-Roger, wire of the king Philippe III Bold the and of Marie of the Brabant. (° 1276).
• 1350 : Dimitri IV Donskoï, large prince of Moscow of 1363 at 1389. (° October 12th 1350).
• 1536 : Anne Boleyn, queen of France, then of England (° Ca 1501 ~ 1507)
• 1645: Miyamoto Musashi, fencer and Samurai Japan board. (° 1584) - (May 19th of the Japanese calendar but June 13rd of the Gregorian Calendar) .
• 1935 : Thomas Edward Lawrence ( Lawrence of Arabia ), officer and British writer . (° August 16th 1888)
• 1954: Charles Ives, American Type-setter. (° October 20th 1874)
• 1985: Herbert Ruff, Type-setter, Leader and Pianist Polish. (° September 16th 1918)
• 1994: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, succumbed to a cancer of the lymphatic Système. (° July 28th 1929)
• 1994: Jacques Ellul, Historian, Theologist, Sociologist and Thinker French. (° January 6th 1912)
• 2000: Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut. (° September 10th 1933)
• 2005: Batya Gour, écrivaine Israeli, specialized in the Detective novel. (° January 20th 1947)

Celebrations

Good festival with

• Célestin

and in reference to Yves saint five first names:

• Erwan, Erwin, Erwana, Erwanez, Erwanig, Erwannig, Wanig
• Eozen, Eozena, Eozenez, Eozenig, Eozenou
• Helouri, Hélori
• Maryvonne
• Yves, Yvon, Yvonne

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

• Dunstan († 988), Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Hadulphe of Arras († 728), bishop.
• Pudentienne of Rome (I er).

Catholic saints of the day

• Célestin : Canonized by Clement V, in 1313, under the name of saint Pierre Célestin. Owner of the bookbinders.
• Yves de Kermartin or Yves de Tréguier († 1303), priest.

Orthodoxe saints of the day

• Crow of Komel († 1537), monk in Russia.

See too

• May 19th in sport
• May 19th in the railroads

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