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Tuesday May 19 is the 139th day of the year. There are 226 days remaining until the end of the year.

Special birthday wishes to Forster.


Happy Birthday to:
Mom of 4, Ribbit50, Forster, sarahft57, laurasmith467, melriley25, Susanne, Jonsonn, esenef74, coyvalencia, eliasholmes, Tom_HC99, paleciaki, Will Hadcroft, Nissim-Payoneer, Many Waters, Saphro and Treesong.

On this day:
1536 -- Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
1649 -- An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
1802 -- Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.

1897 -- Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol Prison.

Also born today:
1795 -- Johns Hopkins, 1890 -- Ho Chi Minh, 1925 -- Malcolm X, 1928 -- Colin Chapman, 1935 -- David Hartman, 1939 -- Nancy Kwan, 1945 -- Pete Townshend, 1946 -- Andre the Giant and 1976 -- Kevin Garnett.
 
Wednesday May 20 is the 140th day of the year. There are 225 days remaining until the end of the year.

Happy Birthday to:
mlgeiger, zztopp, mel5051, thomjones33, shelia.davis62, virginiagonzales27, boone_minnie, nadia.smith22, heike.joyner, blanch.welch, reynolds.samantha32, priscilla_oakes, melissa.joyce68, chambers.mary79, laneRbarrera9, skhaldir75, anothertribe, misspink, Goerge7, GiaGraine, parKb5, alewis14151, jarrettbray, KathyGleason, JackDAlbrecht, RSHunter88, Ben Nitschke, Gaia Revane and Rene from Holland.

On this day:
1609 -- Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
1862 -- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
1873 -- Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

1916 -- The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
1927 -- At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
1932 -- Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.

Also born today:
1768 -- Dolley Madison, 1799 -- Honore de Balzac, 1818 -- William Fargo, 1915 -- Moshe Dayan, 1919 -- George Gobel, 1944 -- Joe Cocker, 1946 -- Cher, 1958 -- Ron Reagan, 1959 -- Bronson Pinchot and 1984 -- Patrick Ewing, Jr..
 
Thursday May 21 is the 141st day of the year. There are 224 days remaining until the end of the year.

Special birthday wishes to Ricky Sides.

Happy Birthday to:
BrockToon, KindTrish, Ricky Sides, brzab, janicegray, Lavern, BlaCky01, Bella Marie, cortney, dawn5four, svoeller, Charentaise, Marian Coman, Cyrus Keith, msfowle, TMichelle, kevin1954, sensawunda, DJGelner and NathanD.

On this day:
878 -- Syracuse, Italy, is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
1863 -- Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1881 -- The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C..

1927 -- Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Also born today:
1898 -- Armand Hammer, 1901 -- Sam Jaffe, 1916 -- Harold Robbins, 1917 -- Raymond Burr, 1918 -- Dennis Day, 1923 -- Ara Parseghian, 1951 -- Al Franken, 1952 -- Mr. T, 1957 -- Judge Reinhold and 1967 -- Lisa Edelstein.
 
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